At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide advanced clinical care to high-risk patients, ensuring holistic and compassionate support.
- Company: Bevan Community Benefit Society, dedicated to innovative primary care solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to tackling complex health challenges.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable patients while advancing your clinical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in clinical practice and a passion for patient-centred care.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
The SAS Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) works at advanced practitioner level in Bevan Community Benefit Society's Special Allocation Scheme (SAS), a specialist primary care service supporting some of the most complex and high-risk patients across West Yorkshire. These patients face extreme barriers to accessing mainstream general practice, often due to aggressive or challenging behaviours, complex safeguarding issues, significant mental health needs, neurodiversity, substance misuse, homelessness and social exclusion.
As an autonomous practitioner, the SAS ACP provides first-contact clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment for this cohort, delivering trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, firm-but-compassionate care to stabilise health conditions, reduce acute crises, and facilitate safe patient engagement with services. The SAS ACP works closely with the SAS GPs and interfaces regularly with services and partner organisations to ensure holistic and coordinated care for this high-risk population.
Main duties of the job:
- Works in partnership with General Practitioners, Consultants, Nursing and Social Care colleagues to diagnose and treat patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
- Orders diagnostic tests (including plan film X-ray and ultrasound), plans, implements and evaluates care and initiates follow-up reviews.
- Refers patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations.
- Undertakes advanced assessments (physical, mental health and social), formulates diagnoses and implements evidence-based treatment plans across acute and long-term conditions.
- Provides comprehensive, autonomous clinical care to SAS patients, acting as a first point of contact for urgent and routine primary care needs.
- Undertakes and interprets a range of diagnostic tests and clinical procedures including cytology, pathology and radiology.
- Makes critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job e.g. first contact with patients presenting acutely and manages care in the presence and absence of protocols.
- Makes decisions where precedents do not exist where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients to hospital consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
- Provides and promotes evidence-based care in line with appropriate clinical guidelines and works within clinical protocols, professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
Our team includes GPs, Public Health Doctors, ANPs, Practice Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Paramedics, Occupational Therapists, Wellbeing Mentors and Support Workers, all dedicated to delivering compassionate, person-centred care. A skilled business administration team ensures smooth service operations. Together, we work collaboratively to address the complex needs of our patients, many with trauma, mental health issues, homelessness or addiction. Our holistic approach is informed by the social determinants of health model, enabling responsive, effective care benefitting individuals and the wider system.
Special Allocations Service (SAS) Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Bradford employer: Bevan Community Benefit Society
Bevan Community Benefit Society is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work culture that prioritises compassionate care for some of the most vulnerable patients in West Yorkshire. With a strong focus on employee growth and development, staff are encouraged to enhance their skills through continuous training and interdisciplinary teamwork, ensuring a fulfilling career path. The unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community, combined with a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, makes this role both rewarding and significant.
Contact Details:
Bevan Community Benefit Society Recruitment Team
