Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Bristol

Welcome to FCMS!

The post will be based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The centre delivers urgent care services between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days per year across the UTC and GP Out of Hours. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of this post.

Come and join our lively and vibrant team! Nestled in the lovely seaside town of Morecambe, we are an Urgent Care Centre with a highly skilled team, who deal with all ages, ranging from babies to the elderly. We are a high-performance team with complimentary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support, maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer!

Main duties of the job:

• Exercise clinical expertise, judgment, discretion and decision making in clinical care within agreed parameters.
• Provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor illness & injuries.
• Work collaboratively with Morecambe GP Out of Hours to provide Morecambe Urgent Care; there is an expectation to work across the services when required.
• Opportunities for development, with training and mentorship to extend clinical competencies (illness or injury) for the right candidate.

About us:

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services. Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

We offer NHS Pension, Cycle to Work Scheme, Career Development Opportunities, Attendance Bonus, Staff Benefit Scheme, Free Tea & Coffee, Eye Care Contributions.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness
• Living authentically
• Adaptability - Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness - What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit - Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun - Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so that people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

• Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
• Awesome: We aren't here to be average, we're here to be awesome!
• Humble: We're here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
• Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
• Oompf: We have natural oompf! It's infectious!
• Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

Clinical:

• Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care needs.
• Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals.
• Ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required.
• Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations.
• Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE.
• Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request, and review x-rays, treat minor injuries /implement expanded roles in practice.
• Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats.

Professional:

• Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
• Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within the role and workplace.
• Analyse relevant local and national policy, within their area of expertise and advise on the impact for service, leading the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes.
• Maintain professional registration and practice through CPD.
• Prescribe medication in accordance with competency, professional guidelines and NICE / CKS guidelines.
• Maintain NMP competency and regularly review prescribing practice through CPD and reflective practice.
• Recognise and act as an advocate for patients, carers, service, and the organisation.

Education and training:

• Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within a personal development plan.
• Contribute to clinical governance outcomes.
• Understand and apply professional and national guidelines on confidentiality.
• Be fully involved in the progress and development of clinicians and provide constructive and relevant feedback.

Research and development:

• Evaluate clinical practice through audit of service and develop and manage strategies to address any shortfalls.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of their work and advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings.
• Implement research findings appropriate to practice.

Communication and working relationships:

• Communicates effectively with other team members, healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Take all appropriate steps to minimise conflict.

Health and safety:

• Comply with safety policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
• Report any hazards or defects as soon as is practically possible.

Physical effort and working conditions:

• Manage clinical care following required Policies and Procedures pertaining to bodily fluids, infection control and COSHH regulations resulting in frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.

Disability Confident Employer: As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

DBS: The role is subject to a DBS check which will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified.

Person Specification:

• Teaching: Willing / able to attend appropriate training, Experience of training and development of staff, Commitment to own personal development.
• Qualifications: Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC), First Contact Practitioner /Advanced Practice qualification or RCN Credentialled practitioner with experience dealing with both children and adults, Clinical experience within an unscheduled care setting, Non-medical prescribing qualification (V300).
• Personal Qualities: Must have a positive can-do attitude, Leadership qualities, Commitment to personal and professional development, Willing to work unsociable hours, Able to deal with difficult and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy, Committed to service development, Adaptable to the changing needs of the service.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years post registration experience and a passion for working in an integrated urgent care system, Experience of expert autonomous practice within an unscheduled care setting managing minor injuries of all ages, Health Promotion experience, Experience using clinical computer systems including Adastra.
• Teamwork, Management and Communication: Commitment to working with multiple organisations to manage patient flows, Commitment to multi-disciplinary team approach to care, Excellent oral, aural, and written communication skills, Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.

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.

The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.