Advanced Clinical Practitioner with Prescribing

Advanced Clinical Practitioner with Prescribing

We are seeking dynamic and skilled cliniciansto join our multidisciplinary Urgent Care team. This is a fantastic opportunityto work in a fast-paced environment that combines clinical autonomy with peersupport. The post-holders will attend to patientspresenting with either a booked appointment or an unscheduled care need,providing assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice on their continuingmedical and care needs.

You will be working alongside a diverse andexperienced team including General Practitioners, Advanced ClinicalPractitioners, Paramedic Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, and Trainee ACPs.This setting offers the perfect balance, empowering you to make independentclinical decisions while being surrounded by colleagues for support, casediscussion, and shared learning.

We welcome applications from:

Paramedic Practitioners

Paediatric Practitioners

Other clinicians with strong consultation and assessment skills in urgent/primary care who can demonstrate autonomous practice.

Main duties of the job

You will be assessing, diagnosing, and managing a wide range ofpresentations including minor illness, minor injury, and pediatric conditions.

About us

Blackpool Urgent Treatment Centres are services delivered by Bloomfield Medical Ltd.Both Urgent Treatment Centres are open access services based in the HealthCentre on Whitegate Drive and co-located with Blackpool Teaching HospitalsEmergency Department. The Urgent Treatment Centres aims are to deliver convenientaccessible primary care services and are open every day of the year. BlackpoolUrgent Treatment Centre is open from 8am to 8pm and Blackpool Victoria UrgentTreatment Centre is open 8am 10pm.

The successful candidate will work acrossall sites, as required depending on patient demand, and the candidates skillsand experience.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Assess, diagnose, treat,and advise patients presenting with a wide range of minor illness and injurypresentations, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care in linewith individual scope of practice.

Perform relevant clinicalprocedures, including collection of pathology samples and minor interventions,as trained and competent.

Ensure clinical practiceremains safe, within scope, and escalated appropriately when limits arereached.

Maintain up-to-date andaccurate clinical records and documentation, using appropriate systems.

Keep up to date withmandatory training.

Contribute to patient flowby supporting appropriate streaming, clinical prioritisation, and safethroughput.

Person Specification

Management and Leadership

• Experience of developing clinical policies and procedures
• The ability to demonstrate understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services
• Evidence of commitment to support, develop and manage change
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of the ability to manage and motivate a team
• Management Qualification
• Experience of recruiting and selecting staff

Communication

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.

Teamwork

• Commitment and experience of multi-disciplinary team approach to care.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team.

Teaching

• Commitment to own personal development.
• Evidence of training and development of staff and teams.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Health Care worker with professional registration.
• Extensive clinical experience within an unscheduled / urgent / primary care setting
• Specific skills in assessing and treating those with minor injuries and illness
• Non-medical prescribing v300 qualification
• Can demonstrate clinical assessment qualifications or Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification
• Masters level education, or equivalent
• Teaching qualification

Experience

• 5 years post registration experience.
• 3 years minimum experience with extensive practice in a Primary Care or an Emergency Care Setting with ideally with adults and children.
• Ability to take responsibility for the clinical care of all or specific groups of patients attending Bloomfield Medical Ltds portfolio of services
• Well-developed and honed clinical skills and proven ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
• IT and computer literate
• Experience of Adastra clinical computer system
• Experience of EMIS Clinical computer system
• Experience in independent X-ray Interpretation.
• Teaching Experience
• Transferable skills to work on GP triage if required.
• Experience of managing a team and individuals.

Personal

• Excellent team leadership qualities.
• Must have a positive can do attitude, with an ability to deal with stressful situations.
• Willing to work unsocial hours across multiple sites.
• Proven flexibly in working patterns, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel between sites to undertake split site duties if the need occurs.

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.