Emergency Care Practitioner/Advanced Care Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

Post Title: Emergency Care Practitioner/Advanced Care Practitioner

Contract Length:Full time (would consider,part-time, job share)

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Renumeration: Depend on experience

Line Manager: Clinical Lead GP (clinically)

Practice Business Manager (administratively)

Responsible to: The Partners

Location: Lister Medical Centre

Job Summary

To practice as an Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP)/ACP and support the on-call team in delivering a same-day emergency care service for patients. The role involves the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or referral of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holder will operate within their professional scope and competencies.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

To provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients according to patients needs either in the Practice or patients homes.

To support and develop the Practices same-day emergency care service.

To evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.

To signpost appropriately to other services within the defined healthcare pathways.

To refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally agreed healthcare pathways.

To maintain accurate, timely and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.

To offer patients health promotion advice, support for healthy lifestyles, and disease prevention strategies.

To provide clinical advice and support to other team members where appropriate.

To provide effective chronic disease management for patients, including conducting home visits where required.

Communication

To liaise and interact with multi-professional teams across organisational boundaries, including primary care, social services and secondary care providers according to patient needs and appropriate care pathways.

To maintain communication with all healthcare professionals and outside agencies to ensure seamless, patient-centred service provision.

To ensure effective communication so that the patient receives the appropriate level of care and wherever possible avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

To take an active role in maintaining expert communication with all patients, carers and relatives, tailored to individual needs.

To deal with complaints in a calm and courteous manner, ensuring that, wherever possible, complaints are dealt with efficiently and satisfactorily on a local level.

To communicate effectively in demanding and challenging situations, where there may also be hostility.

To assist in maintaining accurate data collection.

Professional

To work collaboratively with other members of the health care team such as the District Nursing Team, Mental Health Services, staff in Care Homes, Ambulance Service and Secondary Care.

To adhere to all practice policies to support the health and wellbeing of patients and staff.

To undertake clinical audits as requested in line with the organisations clinical audit plan, and to participate as required in other research.

To contribute to the analysis of information to inform future development of the service.

To participate and contribute to relevant clinical meetings.

To identify risks to the provision of the service and highlight these to the Clinical Lead.

To ensure compliance with Data Protection legislation concerning patient records.

To maintain current professional registration and continuing professional development.

To act at all times in such a manner as to promote confidence and public trust and to uphold the reputation of Lister Medical Centre and their own profession.

Organisational

To operate as an effective and reliable member of the Practice team.

To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including any adverse events, child protection issues or other notifiable matters.

To provide information to inform the evaluation and efficiency of the role and for performance management purposes as requested.

To engage in self-appraisal and utilise reflective practice to enhance and develop personal and organisational practice.

Managerial

To ensure effective time management and prioritisation of workload.

To ensure the security, safe storage and maintenance of any allocated equipment and goods.

To ensure practice is within good clinical governance and based on sound up-to-date clinical evidence. Where appropriate, to identify and assess any risks associated with patient care or to oneself and communicate these risks to the appropriate clinical manager.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications/Education:
• Current registered Nurse (NMC) or registered Paramedic (HCPC)
• Evidence of continued professional development
• ENP/ECP Minor injuries and Minor illnesses course Level 6
• Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Experience of the ECP/ACP role within Primary or Secondary Care
• Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding issues
• Experience in using IT based patient documentation
• Personal Qualities:
• Able and willing to develop professionally
• Able to work co-operatively with the multi-disciplinary team
• Other:
• Vaccine and immunity status in accordance with UK Department of Health Guidelines
• Able to undertake home and care home visits.

Desirable

• Qualifications/Education:
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Completed RCN Clinical Leadership Programme or equivalent
• Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• Able to record/interpret ECG
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of research projects
• Personal Qualities:
• Able to motivate other team members
• Able to promote a learning environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Lister Medical Centre

Address

Lister Health Centre Unit 1

Abercrombie Way

Harlow

Essex

CM18 6YJ

Employer's website

https://www.listermedicalcentre.com (Opens in a new tab)