Job summary
Advanced Clinical Practitioner, £55,157 to £61,850 dependent upon experience, yearly salary increments, NHS Pension.
gtd healthcare is one of the largest NHS commissioned Primary Care, Out of Hours & Urgent Care providers in the North West of England. We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive primary care team at Hattersley Group Practice.
We are a busy but friendly Practice, dedicated to serving our registered patients across the Hyde community for over 25 years. The practice's are keen to develop and support staff to excel their career aspirations whilst making a positive difference to patients and the community.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will work alongside a supportive multidisciplinary team who have a real commitment to continuous improvement, shared learning and best practice, while being passionate about providing patients with the highest possible quality care.
You will be joining a small, close-knit team of clinicians and administrative staff who work collaboratively to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care to our patients. As a high QOF-achieving practice with excellent infection prevention and control standards.
We provide dedicated SPA time (4 hours per week, pro rata) to support professional growth and leadership development.
The hours of work for this post are 20 - 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday between to 08:00 and 18:30.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of the nursing and wider MDT to deliver high-quality, safe, person-centred and compassionate care to patients.
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Provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of patients presenting with a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions.
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Work autonomously within your professional scope, delivering safe, evidence-based care in line with NMC standards, including the use of independent or supplementary prescribing where appropriate.
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Support and collaborate with GPs, practice nurses, healthcare assistants, and other members of the Primary Care Network (PCN) to ensure effective and coordinated patient care.
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Contribute to the delivery of QOF and CQC requirements through proactive management of long-term conditions, accurate record-keeping, and adherence to high clinical standards.
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Lead and participate in quality improvement activities, including audits, service development, and implementation of best practice.
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Provide leadership, support, and mentorship to colleagues and learners, helping to develop clinical skills and professional growth in the team.
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Demonstrate effective teamworking, flexibility, and resilience in a dynamic primary care environment.
Ability to manage complex patients and workloads.
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Maintain professional registration and continuing development in line with national frameworks for advanced practice and organisational policy.
For further details, please refer to the job description attached.
About us
At gtd healthcare we believe we do things differently. Our not-for-profit ethos, with a drive to innovate care offers patients the best experience possible and a unique opportunity to transform services.
We are keen to develop and support staff to excel their career aspirations whilst making a positive difference to patients and the community. We put our people at the heart of everything we do. We are a values driven organisation and we are passionate about providing the best possible healthcare for our patients.
Benefits package
As an employee of gtd healthcare, you'll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, including:
- working for a values-driven organisation;
- Real living wage employer;
- access to Stream, which provides flexible and on-demand access to stream your pay during the month, in real-time, when picking-up extra shifts;
- 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service;
- flexible pension benefits including NHS pension scheme;
- flexible working hours and policies;
- family friendly and carer policies;
- opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards;
- access to gtd healthcare's well-being initiatives, which offer a wide range of tools and resources;
- gtd healthcare social and fun activities;
- cycle to work scheme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Assess and holistically clinically examine patients with both minor and complex needs through history taking, physical examination and appropriate use of investigations to confirm diagnosis.
- Plan, implement and evaluate an effective management plan for the patient, ensuring safe discharge/referral and/or transfer to an appropriate health care service.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Refer and discharge safely ensuring that safety-netting advice is offered.
- Triage telephone referrals, calls from external clinicians, patients and others into a range of services appropriately as required.
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
- Maintain effective communication within the organisation and with external stakeholders.
- Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.
Non-Medical Prescribing
- If you are employed in a prescribing capacity, you must only prescribe within your scope of practice and comply with the gtd healthcare NMP governance registration processes.
- You must maintain your knowledge and skills and prescribe within your clinical competencies.
- The non-medical prescriber is required to comply with organisational NMP governance processes and adhere to local and national prescribing guidance.
Delivering a Quality Service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC/HPC etc. Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
- Ensure professional revalidation requirements are met.
- Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
- Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
- In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
- Support and participate in shared learning across the organisation and wider organisation.
- Understand and apply guidance that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patient health procedures and local guidance.
Leadership Personal and People Development
- Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role mode.
- Support staff development in order to maximise potential.
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency or actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services.
- Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant areas of work.
- Take a lead role in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
- Work with senior clinical and management teams to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix is available to meet current and future service delivery, that selection and recruitment processes are effective and that equality of treatment of the team incorporates quality HR principles and processes.
- Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
- Maintain effective communication with those responsible for the overall commissioning and procurement process.
- To attend and be proactively involved in professional meetings at base and corporately.
- Take the lead/ develop a special interest within certain areas to allow the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Assess and holistically clinically examine patients with both minor and complex needs through history taking, physical examination and appropriate use of investigations to confirm diagnosis.
- Plan, implement and evaluate an effective management plan for the patient, ensuring safe discharge/referral and/or transfer to an appropriate health care service.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Refer and discharge safely ensuring that safety-netting advice is offered.
- Triage telephone referrals, calls from external clinicians, patients and others into a range of services appropriately as required.
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
- Maintain effective communication within the organisation and with external stakeholders.
- Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.
Non-Medical Prescribing
- If you are employed in a prescribing capacity, you must only prescribe within your scope of practice and comply with the gtd healthcare NMP governance registration processes.
- You must maintain your knowledge and skills and prescribe within your clinical competencies.
- The non-medical prescriber is required to comply with organisational NMP governance processes and adhere to local and national prescribing guidance.
Delivering a Quality Service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC/HPC etc. Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
- Ensure professional revalidation requirements are met.
- Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
- Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
- In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
- Support and participate in shared learning across the organisation and wider organisation.
- Understand and apply guidance that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patient health procedures and local guidance.
Leadership Personal and People Development
- Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role mode.
- Support staff development in order to maximise potential.
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency or actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services.
- Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant areas of work.
- Take a lead role in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
- Work with senior clinical and management teams to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix is available to meet current and future service delivery, that selection and recruitment processes are effective and that equality of treatment of the team incorporates quality HR principles and processes.
- Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
- Maintain effective communication with those responsible for the overall commissioning and procurement process.
- To attend and be proactively involved in professional meetings at base and corporately.
- Take the lead/ develop a special interest within certain areas to allow the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse, paramedic, pharmacist or other AHP with MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or credentialing qualification or equivalent. V300 Non-Medical Prescriber (gateway dependent) dependent on professional eligibility.
Desirable
- Mentor/Teaching qualification. Clinical supervision training and experience.
Skills and attributes
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills and competence. Management and treatment of patients with acute exacerbation of long-term conditions. Management of patients with complex needs. Clinical examination skills and competence. Clinical leadership skills and competence. Communication skills, both written and verbal. Negotiation and conflict management skills. Change management experience and evidence. Highly motivated. Flexibility. Enthusiasm. Team Player.
Desirable
- Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting. Resource Management.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as senior clinician. Accountability of own role and other roles in a practitioner-led service. Experience of leading/managing quality improvement.
Desirable
- Experience in leading/managing a team of nurses. Experience of working in an unscheduled care service. Experience of having worked in Primary Care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse, paramedic, pharmacist or other AHP with MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or credentialing qualification or equivalent. V300 Non-Medical Prescriber (gateway dependent) dependent on professional eligibility.
Desirable
- Mentor/Teaching qualification. Clinical supervision training and experience.
Skills and attributes
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills and competence. Management and treatment of patients with acute exacerbation of long-term conditions. Management of patients with complex needs. Clinical examination skills and competence. Clinical leadership skills and competence. Communication skills, both written and verbal. Negotiation and conflict management skills. Change management experience and evidence. Highly motivated. Flexibility. Enthusiasm. Team Player.
Desirable
- Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting. Resource Management.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as senior clinician. Accountability of own role and other roles in a practitioner-led service. Experience of leading/managing quality improvement.
Desirable
- Experience in leading/managing a team of nurses. Experience of working in an unscheduled care service. Experience of having worked in Primary Care.
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).
