Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Warwickshire East PCN
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Job summary
Job type: Permanent role. 1 day per week. Monday 9-5pm. 7.5 hours per week.
Location: The successful candidate will be based at Harbury Surgery, Mill Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HR. Must be willing to travel to other PCN practices if required to support business needs.
Salary: £9894 per year.
We are seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will work closely with physicians and other healthcare professionals to provide high-quality patient care. Your primary responsibilities will include diagnosing and treating patients, prescribing medications, and managing patient care plans. The successful candidate must be willing to provide face to face clinics and do minor illness.
Main duties of the job
Conduct comprehensive patient assessments, including medical history, physical examinations, and diagnostic tests- Analyze and interpret patient data to formulate accurate diagnoses- Develop and implement patient care plans in collaboration with the healthcare team- Prescribe medications and monitor patient response to treatment- Perform procedures within your scope of practice, such as suturing wounds or administering injections- Provide patient education on health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment options- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to coordinate patient care and ensure continuity of care- Maintain accurate and up-to-date medical records
About us
SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.
o 25 days holiday + bank holidays
o NHS Pension
o Health & Wellbeing support
o Bike2work Scheme
Details
Date posted
05 April 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£9,894 a year Based on 7.5 hours per week.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
B0062-24-0021
Job locations
Gainsborough Hall
Russell Street
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5QB
Harbury Surgery
Mill Street
Harbury
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV33 9HR
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will assess diagnosis, plan, and implement programmes of evidenced-based care for primary care patients, undertaking re-evaluation and implementation of treatment plans as appropriate. In addition, you will ensure interventions are undertaken in line with best practice guidance and use advanced skills appropriate to the role, ensuring clinical competencies are maintained in accordance with framework for advanced clinical practice.
You will need to hold a Postgraduate qualification within your clinical discipline, together with the certification to prescribe.
You will act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other healthcare professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending clinics and initiating direct referrals as appropriate. You will be required to work from Hub locations seeing and treating as appropriate patients from across our 3 member practices.
You will also lead PCN clinical projects in line with the PCN DES contract, these involve, but are not limited to, health inequalities, Learning Disabilities, Long Term conditions and Flu and Covid vaccination campaigns.
You will preferably have prior experience in a Primary Care setting with the ability to make professionally autonomous decisions. You will hold clinics for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and make an assessment of their health care needs, based on highly-developed knowledge and skills, including skills such as physical examination, applied pharmacology and evidence-based prescribing.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Practise in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.
Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.
Work in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate (e.g., of history-taking; holistic assessment; identifying risk factors; mental health
Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care, or seeking to make positive changes, using Health Education Englands framework to promote person-centred approaches in health and care.
Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care.
Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families, and carers.
Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, developing, maintaining, and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings.
Function as a clinical role model/advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies, and networks.
Evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies i.e., knowledge, skills, and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope, and demonstrate application of the capabilities to these, in an approach that is appropriate to the individual role, setting and scope.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams, to encourage productive working.
Role model the values of their organisation/place of work, demonstrating a person-centred approach to service delivery and development.
Evaluate own practice, and participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (i.e., outcomes of care, experience, and safety).
Actively engage in peer review to inform own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements.
Lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation, and need, working across boundaries and broadening sphere of influence.
Actively seek feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities, and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
Critically apply advanced clinical expertise in appropriate faciliatory ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries, influencing clinical practice to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice.
Demonstrate team leadership, resilience, and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex, or unpredictable and seeking to build confidence in others.
Continually develop practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments (e.g., impacts of genomics, new treatments and changing social challenges).
Demonstrate receptiveness to challenge and preparedness to constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that affect individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues safety and well-being when necessary.
Negotiate an individual scope of practice within legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies, governance, and procedures, with a focus on managing risk and upholding safety.
Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced practice should be able to:
Critically assess and address own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
Engage in self-directed learning, critically reflecting to maximise clinical skills and knowledge, as well as own potential to lead and develop both care and services.
Engage with, appraise, and respond to individuals motivation, development stage and capacity, working collaboratively to support health literacy and empower individuals to participate in decisions about their care and to maximise their health and well-being.
Advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
Facilitate collaboration of the wider team and support peer review processes to identify individual and team learning.
Identify further developmental needs for the individual and the wider team and supporting them address these.
Supporting the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice
Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the confidence of others.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Critically engage in research activity, adhering to good research practice guidance, so that evidence-based strategies are developed and applied to enhance quality, safety, productivity, and value for money.
Evaluate and audit own and others clinical practice, selecting and applying valid, reliable methods, then acting on the findings.
Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation, and audit, using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
Take a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base and its application to practice, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed in a safe and pragmatic way.
Actively identify potential need for further research to strengthen evidence for best practice. This may involve acting as an educator, leader, innovator, and contributor to research activity and/or seeking out and applying for research funding.
Develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes, keeping the need for modifications under critical review.
Disseminate best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media and fora (e.g., presentations and peer review research publications).
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will assess diagnosis, plan, and implement programmes of evidenced-based care for primary care patients, undertaking re-evaluation and implementation of treatment plans as appropriate. In addition, you will ensure interventions are undertaken in line with best practice guidance and use advanced skills appropriate to the role, ensuring clinical competencies are maintained in accordance with framework for advanced clinical practice.
You will need to hold a Postgraduate qualification within your clinical discipline, together with the certification to prescribe.
You will act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other healthcare professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending clinics and initiating direct referrals as appropriate. You will be required to work from Hub locations seeing and treating as appropriate patients from across our 3 member practices.
You will also lead PCN clinical projects in line with the PCN DES contract, these involve, but are not limited to, health inequalities, Learning Disabilities, Long Term conditions and Flu and Covid vaccination campaigns.
You will preferably have prior experience in a Primary Care setting with the ability to make professionally autonomous decisions. You will hold clinics for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and make an assessment of their health care needs, based on highly-developed knowledge and skills, including skills such as physical examination, applied pharmacology and evidence-based prescribing.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Practise in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.
Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.
Work in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate (e.g., of history-taking; holistic assessment; identifying risk factors; mental health
Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care, or seeking to make positive changes, using Health Education Englands framework to promote person-centred approaches in health and care.
Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care.
Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families, and carers.
Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, developing, maintaining, and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings.
Function as a clinical role model/advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies, and networks.
Evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies i.e., knowledge, skills, and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope, and demonstrate application of the capabilities to these, in an approach that is appropriate to the individual role, setting and scope.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams, to encourage productive working.
Role model the values of their organisation/place of work, demonstrating a person-centred approach to service delivery and development.
Evaluate own practice, and participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (i.e., outcomes of care, experience, and safety).
Actively engage in peer review to inform own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements.
Lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation, and need, working across boundaries and broadening sphere of influence.
Actively seek feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities, and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
Critically apply advanced clinical expertise in appropriate faciliatory ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries, influencing clinical practice to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice.
Demonstrate team leadership, resilience, and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex, or unpredictable and seeking to build confidence in others.
Continually develop practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments (e.g., impacts of genomics, new treatments and changing social challenges).
Demonstrate receptiveness to challenge and preparedness to constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that affect individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues safety and well-being when necessary.
Negotiate an individual scope of practice within legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies, governance, and procedures, with a focus on managing risk and upholding safety.
Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced practice should be able to:
Critically assess and address own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
Engage in self-directed learning, critically reflecting to maximise clinical skills and knowledge, as well as own potential to lead and develop both care and services.
Engage with, appraise, and respond to individuals motivation, development stage and capacity, working collaboratively to support health literacy and empower individuals to participate in decisions about their care and to maximise their health and well-being.
Advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
Facilitate collaboration of the wider team and support peer review processes to identify individual and team learning.
Identify further developmental needs for the individual and the wider team and supporting them address these.
Supporting the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice
Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the confidence of others.
Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to:
Critically engage in research activity, adhering to good research practice guidance, so that evidence-based strategies are developed and applied to enhance quality, safety, productivity, and value for money.
Evaluate and audit own and others clinical practice, selecting and applying valid, reliable methods, then acting on the findings.
Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation, and audit, using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
Take a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base and its application to practice, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed in a safe and pragmatic way.
Actively identify potential need for further research to strengthen evidence for best practice. This may involve acting as an educator, leader, innovator, and contributor to research activity and/or seeking out and applying for research funding.
Develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes, keeping the need for modifications under critical review.
Disseminate best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media and fora (e.g., presentations and peer review research publications).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree level in the relevant area od expertise
- Working at Masters level aware or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies
- Pharmacist has qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or qualified as an IP
- Qualified Independent Prescriber
- Minor Illness qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in Primary Care
- Competent in the use of EMIS
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Problem solving & analytical skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
- Triage experience
- Experience of working in primary care/out of hours clinic
Additional requirements
Essential
- 6 months post qualification experience working in primary care
- Qualified independent prescriber able to undertake medication reviews
- Meets DBS standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree level in the relevant area od expertise
- Working at Masters level aware or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies
- Pharmacist has qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or qualified as an IP
- Qualified Independent Prescriber
- Minor Illness qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in Primary Care
- Competent in the use of EMIS
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Problem solving & analytical skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
- Triage experience
- Experience of working in primary care/out of hours clinic
Additional requirements
Essential
- 6 months post qualification experience working in primary care
- Qualified independent prescriber able to undertake medication reviews
- Meets DBS standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
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).
Additional information
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
South Warwickshire GP Federation
Address
Gainsborough Hall
Russell Street
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5QB
Employer's website
https://www.southwarwickshiregps.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
South Warwickshire GP Federation
Address
Gainsborough Hall
Russell Street
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5QB
Employer's website
https://www.southwarwickshiregps.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Maddy Edgington
Details
Date posted
05 April 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£9,894 a year Based on 7.5 hours per week.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
B0062-24-0021
Job locations
Gainsborough Hall
Russell Street
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5QB
Harbury Surgery
Mill Street
Harbury
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV33 9HR
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