Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

North Shoebury Surgery is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner on a part time basis for 20 hours per week, to join our multi-disciplinary team to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to masters level, they will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

Main duties of the job

• demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

Located in Shoeburyness the surgery provides a range of NHS primary care services and weaim to provide an effective, efficient and fair health care service to all our patients. Our professional team work extremely well together, we have monthly clinical training sessions that are held here on site, these are open to all levels of the clinical team. In addition to ongoing training, we provide the following:

• NHS pension scheme which is a defined benefits scheme - 20% employer contribution
• Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE, with enhancements for long service