Fixed Term ACP in Cleckheaton

Are you an enthusiastic, experienced ACP looking for work in a friendly and supportive team? We are a friendly, supportive, forward-thinking team in a busy town centre practice caring for patients with an array of interesting medical problems. The successful candidate will be working all day, preferably on a Monday and should be available to start work in January 2027.

Main duties of the job

• A key member of the clinical team, the successful candidate must hold a recognised Nurse Practitioner qualification.
• You will manage a caseload, dealing with a wide range of presenting healthcare problems and needs.
• The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will see both make professional autonomous decisions in relation to their problems, but remain fully supported by the existing clinicians.
• The post holder must be an Independent Prescriber.

About us

At Cleckheaton Group Practice, we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously and in complete confidence. Our team includes five GP partners, and two Advanced Clinical Practitioners. We have a team of Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants who work alongside our Reception team and Admin/Secretarial team. We offer a full general practice service and run specialist clinics for children, diabetes, heart disease, COPD and asthma sufferers and for patients needing minor surgery.

Job responsibilities

• Act as Advanced Clinical Practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles.
• Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
• Undertake consultations with patients as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat or refer patients.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Make direct referrals to primary, secondary and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols.
• Work with patients and their carers in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Ensure care plans are in place, including emergency health care plans following discussion with the patient and family members.
• Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care, delivered in a timely manner.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocol, within scope of practice.
• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of each and every patient contact.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner and as part of multi-disciplinary and multiagency teams in order to ensure patient needs are met.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
• May be required to visit patients at home.

Professional

• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and at all times work within the scope of professional practice.
• Ensure that professional practice adheres to organisational and NMC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain a professional manner and act as a positive role model to other members of the Primary Care team.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information pertaining to patients and staff.
• Deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with patients and families regarding complex information about their care.
• Provide advice and information to patients, carers and their families where appropriate.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, allied health professionals and operational staff to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated service.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

It is the responsibility of all employees to work with managers to achieve a healthy and safe environment, and to take reasonable care of themselves and others.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

It is the responsibility of all employees to support the practice vision for sustainable development. To undertake their duties in a way that is not wasteful of environment, financial and social resources.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

It is the responsibility of all employees to support the organisation's vision of promoting a positive approach to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of Equality & Diversity Strategies and Policies.

REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974

This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

As an employee you will have access to information that is sensitive to either an individual or to the Organisation and you are reminded that in accordance with the requirements of Information Governance, NHS Code of Confidentiality, Data Protection Act 1998 and also the terms and conditions in your contract of employment, you have a duty to process this information judiciously and lawfully; failure to do so may result in disciplinary action.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Organisation is committed to providing a high quality service through the effective management and development of its employees. The Performance Appraisal process ensures that The Organisation is able to achieve its key aims of delivering cost effective, high quality and responsive healthcare, whilst enabling employees to understand how the outcome of their contribution fits within these overall aims.

STATUTORY AND MANDATORY TRAINING

The Organisation will assess the requirements for Statutory and Mandatory training for all new staff prior to commencement and aims to ensure that all Statutory and Mandatory training requirements are completed during the first 2 weeks of commencement.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS

The Organisation is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults within its care. As an employee you are accountable to ensure that you know how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. The organisation will support you in this process by providing training, support and advice.

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

All employees are expected to follow consistently high standards in the prevention and control of infection, especially with reference to hand hygiene, adherence to dress/uniform code and for clinical staff all procedures involving aseptic technique. Participate in mandatory training and annual updates. Protecting patients from infection is everyone's responsibility.

SMOKE-FREE POLICY

The Organisation operates a Smoke-free policy. This means that smoking is not permitted anywhere within any of the premises. In the interests of promoting responsible healthcare all staff are to refrain from smoking when off-site in uniform or wearing an identifying badge in any public place.

CONFIDENTIALITY

In the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information of a personal and/or clinical nature, including information relating to the Organisation, its clients, patients, employees and other parties. You must not use such information for your own benefit nor disclose it to other persons without the consent of the Organisation and the party concerned unless required to do so by law. This applies both during and after the termination of your employment. Any breach of confidentiality during employment may be regarded as serious misconduct and could lead to summary dismissal.

DATA PROTECTION

As your employer, The Organisation needs to keep information about you for purposes connected with your employment. The sort of information we will hold includes information for payroll purposes, references, contact names and addresses and records relating to your career with The Organisation. These uses are covered by our notification with the Information Commissioners Office under the Data Protection Act 1998. The information which we hold will be for our management and administrative use only but we may need to disclose some information we hold about you to relevant third parties (e.g. Inland Revenue).

RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

As an employee, you are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create or use as part of your work within The Organisation and they remain the property of The Organisation. This includes patient, financial, personal and administrative records, whether paper based or on computer. All such records are considered public records and you have a legal duty of confidence to all service users. All staff have a responsibility to ensure information quality standards are achieved.

INFORMATION SECURITY

Under the provisions of the Data Protection Act, it is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that all personal data relating to patients and members of staff, whether held in manual or electronic format, is kept secure at all times. Computer passwords must not be shared either between systems or users. The Organisation may monitor e-mail messages, any files stored on the networks or on equipment and usage of the Internet, NHS.net and computer systems, irrespective of whether these relate to trust or personal use. Access and usage of The Organisation's computers must be in accordance with The Organisation's policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Registered Nurse, Experience in a Primary Care Setting, Minor illness Qualification Level 7 (MSc) Practitioner, Independent Prescriber qualification.
• Desirable: SystmOne User.

Experience

• Essential: Experience of working within a primary care environment, Experience of Chronic Disease management, Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews.

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.

Employer details

Employer name: Cleckheaton Group Practice

Address: St John’s House Cross Church Street Cleckheaton West Yorkshire BD19 3RQ United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.cleckkheatongrouppractice.co.uk