Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues
Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets all are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets
Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs
Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment / referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters
Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group whilst working autonomously
- Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results
- To safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
- Be able to independently undertake telephone triage weekends the RMIU clinicians are required to partake in the CAS (Clinical Assessment Service) telephone triage. Training will be provided
- To work within the parameters of current nurse prescribing legislation
- Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership
- Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise
- Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant professional body
- Provide professional and clinical advice within the multi-disciplinary team
Knowledge, skills and experience required:
- Relevant professional qualification
- Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
- Experienced in undertaking telephone triage and remote prescribing
- Teaching and mentorship
- Up to date CPD Portfolio
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Able to articulate personal development needs
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations and demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Evidence of significant involvement in change
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within unscheduled care
- Ability to work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk across organisation and setting
- Ability to identify risk assessment and act accordingly
Key results areas:
Clinical
The post holder will:
- Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care needs.
- Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals
- When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required.
Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations.
- Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE
- Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request, and review x-rays, treat minor injuries /implement expanded roles in practice
- In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the duties and responsibilities associated with an expert practitioner working within Unscheduled Primary Care.
- Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols.
Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats
Professional
The post holder will:
- Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
- Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within the role and workplace
- Analyse relevant local and national policy, within their area of expertise and advise on the impact for service, leading the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes
- Maintain professional registration and practice through CPD
- Maintain a professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with NMC competency framework or other professional body
- Prescribe medication in accordance with competency, professional guidelines and NICE / CKS guidelines.
- Maintain NMP competency and regularly review prescribing practice through CPD and reflective practice.
- Maintain their personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent within FCMS, NMC guidelines or other professional body
- Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload within an accepted time frame
- Ensure appropriate use of resources to meet service needs
- Recognise and act as an advocate for patients, carers, service, and the organisation
- Carry out annual review of best practice/national standards and implement recommended changes
- Promote workforce integrity (empower professional accountability within the clinical team, ensure accreditation process followed, complaints management, competency assessment, ensuring mandatory training requirements fulfilled, robust clinical induction)
- Maintain a sound knowledge of NHS policy and NICE guidance in relation to scheduled and unscheduled care
Our key expectations are:
Self-awareness Living authentically
Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
Openness What you see is what you get
Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself
Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.
Values:Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.
Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:
Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!
Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!
Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity.
We encourage and welcome you to visit the unit to allow us to show you the facilities and demonstrate the flow of the service.
If this is something you would like to do, prior to application or following your application submission, then please email fcms.newladmin@nhs.net for a convenient date and time to be arranged.
