Job summary
Modality Partnership AWC Division is expanding and is offering equivalent of 3 full-time vacancies for Advanced Clinical Practitioners. The postholder will be passionate about patient care, working at one of our sites across Airedale & Craven, that are all within a 10 mile radius of our local acute trust, base can be flexible depending on your requirements and collaborations. We are seeking qualified ACPs who will contribute to innovation within the partnership in the way care is delivered, and who will embrace our partnership values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (CARE).
Airedale sites include Holycroft Surgery, Farfield Group Practice, Kilmeny Group Medical Practice, Long Lee surgery, Haworth Medical Practice and Oakworth Medical Practice
Craven sites include Cross Hills Group Practice, Silsden Surgery, Steeton Surgery and Fisher Medical Centre-addresses below.
This job is suitable for individuals who are compassionate, patient focused and have a real passion for primary care, and working within a larger GP super partnership, who are dedicated to engaging with health and social services to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from:
Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
Career progression and leadership opportunities
Employee discounts and benefits scheme
External employee assistance programme
Supportive environment
Main duties of the job
The role is a patient centered, all-rounded clinical ACP position. The postholder will need to confidently evidence key skills such as excellent communication skills, clinical skills and empowering patients to manage their individual health conditions. Whilst working independently and using their own initiative for part of the role, the postholder will also work in collaboration with their local practice team, community teams and will engage the use of the associated roles that are be attached to the practice.
A background of integrated health and social care planning in partnership with the individual, carers, relatives and health care professionals, based on assessment of medical, nursing and social care needs will be beneficial. Furthermore, specific interest in care homes and the elderly is ideal. The postholder will be able to demonstrate ability to act as an autonomous advanced practitioner providing a comprehensive clinical assessment service to patients/carers/families resulting in safe, appropriate clinical decisions. Supervision by General Practitioners in practice is readily available as needed and is encouraged where support is needed.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of like-minded people.
About us
We are the largest GP
super-partnerships in the UK, with a list size in AWC of almost 90,000
patients, organised by base site, nationally we have a list size of 450,000+
patients and with a multi-disciplinary workforce of 1500 staff. We are unique,
always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the
implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the
organisation. New initiatives are underpinned by our governance team to ensure
patient safety.
Your job is to work
directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and
improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a
role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills and development
and operational skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.
All
employees are welcomed to enroll in our employee benefits scheme and NHS
pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and
career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.
You will
love this job if you have a passion for providing high quality patient care,
thinking
outside the
box, are innovative and are driven to find and implement solutions to develop
the day to day working environment. You will improve the way we work from the
ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service
improvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to
the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core
responsibilities of this role.
The postholder will work in collaboration with their team (including Divisional Board) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation. The position requires innovation, flexibility, commitment and the ability to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.
This is not a purely patient-facing role and the postholder will be required to work on quality improvement as outlined in the job specification.
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will
be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage
individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be
undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are
mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a
mandatory requirement.
*ALL APPLICANTS INVITED FOR INTERVIEW WILL NEED TO PROVE
THEIR RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AT THE INTERVIEW STAGE*
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to
the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core
responsibilities of this role.
The postholder will work in collaboration with their team (including Divisional Board) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation. The position requires innovation, flexibility, commitment and the ability to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.
This is not a purely patient-facing role and the postholder will be required to work on quality improvement as outlined in the job specification.
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will
be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage
individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be
undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are
mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a
mandatory requirement.
*ALL APPLICANTS INVITED FOR INTERVIEW WILL NEED TO PROVE
THEIR RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AT THE INTERVIEW STAGE*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
- Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience
- Mentor/teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Extended/supplementary prescriber
Desirable
- Experience of developing and maintaining positive and effective partnerships with partner organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities and challenges.
- Understanding of the national health and social care agenda and familiarity with emerging strategy.
- Understanding of the strategic direction of the ACP role and how this may develop over time.
- Advanced clinical practice skills in acute presentation of minor ailments.
- Management of patients with complex needs.
- Accountability of own role and other roles in a primary care service.
- Local and national health policy.
- Wider health economy.
- Clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Patient group directions and associated policy
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.
- Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.
- Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.
- Ability to lead/critically contribute to and influence the strategic agenda and translate complex strategy into deliverable operational objectives.
- Ability to challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions and new alternative methods of service delivery.
- Ability to align processes and systems to support and deliver priorities.
Desirable
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organizations.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
- Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience
- Mentor/teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Extended/supplementary prescriber
Desirable
- Experience of developing and maintaining positive and effective partnerships with partner organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities and challenges.
- Understanding of the national health and social care agenda and familiarity with emerging strategy.
- Understanding of the strategic direction of the ACP role and how this may develop over time.
- Advanced clinical practice skills in acute presentation of minor ailments.
- Management of patients with complex needs.
- Accountability of own role and other roles in a primary care service.
- Local and national health policy.
- Wider health economy.
- Clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Patient group directions and associated policy
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.
- Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.
- Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.
- Ability to lead/critically contribute to and influence the strategic agenda and translate complex strategy into deliverable operational objectives.
- Ability to challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions and new alternative methods of service delivery.
- Ability to align processes and systems to support and deliver priorities.
Desirable
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organizations.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
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).
