Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Care (Bristol)

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Are you a healthcare professional looking to make a difference in your community? An exciting role for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner has been created to join our dynamic Out of Hours team, covering North Somerset or Bristol. Our Urgent Care team strive to visit service users in their homes within 2 hours of receiving an urgent referral. Driven by compassion and determination, on arrival you will aim to provide appropriate clinical care to prevent avoidable acute hospital admissions or facilitate urgent referrals to secondary care, where this will benefit the individual’s clinical outcome.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner is part of the Out of Hours (OOH) Service, providing urgent specialist clinical assessment and interventions for adults aged 18 and over within a person-centred plan of care. We have two posts available, one in North Somerset based at Castlewood and one in Bristol based at the Withywood Centre. Ever-growing, we would love to see your application today.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide urgent assessment, treatment and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service users.
• Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
• Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway, such as Community Rehabilitation Units.
• Prescribe, supply and/or administer medication and treatments according to agreed protocols, including intravenous medication if appropriate.
• Maintain accurate and systematic documentation of service users’ interactions and clinical care provided, by sharing care records with GP practices in a timely fashion.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests where appropriate.
• Support the Out of Hours team, including assisting service users who have fallen, using relevant equipment.
• Provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in healthcare for people who are complex, frail and have urgent care needs.

Working for our organisation:

Looking for a job to fit around you and your lifestyle? Perhaps you’re ready to take your next step, considering a career change, or seeking a rewarding new role where you can make a real difference. At Sirona care & health we provide local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. From clinical to clerical, we offer a variety of location-based and community roles to choose from with hours to fit around you. We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

You’ll receive Agenda for Change hourly rates with a 12.5% annual leave bonus, increased pay for weekend, out-of-hours, or Bank Holiday shifts, along with NHS benefits such as high street discounts and a generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme. Our offer includes a range of paid-for training, and support for your health and wellbeing with our Employee Assistance Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role before applying.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Current registration with NMC / HCPC or other relevant professional body.
• Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L3 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules.
• Physical Assessment & Clinical Reasoning (PACR), Physical Examination and Diagnostic Reasoning Module (PADRAP or equivalent) and Non-Medical Independent & Supplementary Prescriber or willingness to undertake.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of emergency / urgent care service user assessment and planning / designing emergency care plans.
• Experience in a relevant Primary Care and or Pre-Hospital and or Acute area of practice.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and shared decision making.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex clinical information.
• Experience of effective supervision of junior staff and students.