ADVANCED/ENHANCED CLINICAL PRACTITIONER

Job description

Job responsibilities

Advanced/Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

As an Independent, autonomous Prescribing Clinician you will be working as part of Medvivo's multidisciplinary team to deliver safe and timely care to people accessing our Integrated Urgent Care Service during both the out of hours (OOH) and in hours period. Our Clinical Practitioners cover a variety of shifts including face-to-face assessments at our designated Primary Care Centres and supporting patients both in their own homes and remotely via telephone and video assessment.

Our Clinical Practitioners also provide remote clinical support to our Care Coordination Service, assisting ambulance crews both within the Bristol, Swindon and Wiltshire and Devon localities from our Head Office in Chippenham. Our service works to coordinate health and care services to patients and where clinically appropriate, utilise alternative pathways to emergency admission.

About the role

Our Clinical Practitioners provide OOH and in-hours care through the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge or referral of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed injury/illness, or acute exacerbation of existing conditions. You will assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of patient care across the whole system of health and social care, working in partnership with all relevant stakeholders.

The key elements of the role include but are not limited to:

• Working as a prescribing clinician, primarily seeing patients face to face.
• Supporting our Care Coordination Service from our head office in Fox Talbot House, Chippenham.
• Supporting with triage of calls that have come via the NHS111 pathway during the core daytime surgery opening hours.
• Undertaking home visits to patients who are unable to travel to a primary care centre, supported with a fully equipped medical car and a driver.

Please note that the support of a senior clinician is always available remotely during your shift.

About you

You will be a registered nurse, paramedic, or other allied health professional, with a non-medical prescribing qualification in the context of a broad scope of practice.

Skills and experience

• Ability to work autonomously both in-hours and out of hours.
• Achieved or working towards an MSc in Advanced Practice.
• Evidence of an equivalent accumulation of relevant experience and knowledge.
• Training and experience of physical assessment and clinical reasoning (including paediatrics)
• Ability to demonstrate a wide knowledge base and competency in clinical practice.
• Understanding of the emergency care pathways.
• Knowledge of primary health care issues affecting a diverse local population.

What we offer

• Flexibility and a varied portfolio of work, incorporating all areas of urgent care.
• Generous clinical shift enhancements for all public holidays.
• Comprehensive induction programme and ongoing professional development.
• Bespoke training days with support from external healthcare specialists.
• Access to a discretionarybonus scheme
• Generous pension scheme and holiday entitlement.
• Simply Health cash plan.
• Pay rate of up to£51.45 per hour (depending on shift time)

Apply

Please apply via the application link below.

If you'd like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact the recruitment team at 0800 644 2000 or email recruitment@medvivo.com

About us

Medvivo Group has been providing a range of health and urgent care services since 2004. Commissioned by the NHS, Medvivo's core business involves the provision of Integrated Urgent Care services, incorporating NHS111 and out of hours care, in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.

Committed to achieving excellence in the delivery of person-centred care, Medvivo invests in people, resources and technology to continuously improve the quality of its services and organisational culture. This is testified by two consecutive outstanding ratings by the Care Quality Commission, certified by the TSAs Quality Standards Framework, the industry and advisory body for technology enabled care (TEC) in the UK.

Equality, Inclusivity and Diversity

In line with Medvivo's commitment to Equality, Inclusivity and Diversity, we welcome and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates from all backgrounds. We are committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and aim to establish an inclusive working environment. As such, we welcome diverse applications from candidates irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Medvivo is a certified Disability Confident Employer and is committed to affording equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made at any part of your application process, please let us know by contacting us at recruitment@medvivo.com.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• - Ability to work autonomously both in-hours and out of hours.
• - Achieved or working towards an MSc in Advanced Practice.
• - Evidence of an equivalent accumulation of relevant experience and knowledge.
• - Training and experience of physical assessment and clinical reasoning (including pediatrics)
• - Ability to demonstrate a wide knowledge base and competency in clinical practice.
• - Understanding of the emergency care pathways.
• - Knowledge of primary health care issues affecting a diverse local population.

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

Medvivo

Address

Fox Talbot House

Greenways Business Park

Chippenham

SN15 1BN

Employer's website

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