Advanced Practitioner - Remote Practitioner in Preston

Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Pay: £28.48 - £31.73 per hour depending on experience

Hours: Part time and full-time hours available

Base: The post will be based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The centre delivers urgent care services between 8am - 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.

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!

Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre works collaboratively with Morecambe GP Out of Hours to provide Morecambe Urgent Care; there are 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.

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
• Free Tea & Coffee

Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues. Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs. Be able to independently undertake telephone triage. Work within the parameters of current Non-medical prescribing legislation/guidelines. Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership. Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant professional body.

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.

Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care needs. Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals. When required 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. In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the duties and responsibilities associated with an expert practitioner working within Unscheduled Primary Care.

Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols. 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 a professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with NMC competency framework or other professional body. Maintain their personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent within FCMS, NMC guidelines or other professional body. Carry out annual review of best practice/national standards and implement recommended changes. Promote workforce integrity (empower professional accountability within the clinical team, ensure accreditation process followed, complaints management, competency assessment, ensuring mandatory training requirements fulfilled, robust clinical induction). Maintain a sound knowledge of NHS policy and NICE guidance in relation to scheduled and unscheduled care.

Education and training: Develop and distribute educational leaflets in relevant formats, for patients relating to services and patient pathways. Ensure personal, peer support and clinical supervision needs are met. Assist in the implementation of training and development in your locality. Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of their work and advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings. Initiate and/or become involved in research projects in response to identified needs. Disseminate results/research/audit findings via local teams and/or national/international publications. Communicates effectively with other healthcare professionals.

Health and safety: Comply with safety policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others. Refrain from the wilful misuse or interference with equipment provided in the interest of Health and Safety. Report as soon as is practically possible any hazards or defects. Report as soon as practically possible accidents or untoward incidents and ensure appropriate incident reporting documentation is completed. Making effective use of training to maintain knowledge and skills. Be responsible to ensure all aspects of the Manual Handling guidelines are followed, providing appropriate risk assessments. Be responsible to 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. Be responsible to manage challenging situations and people with some exposure to hazards, e.g. violent and abusive patients, child abuse, critically ill patients. Manage own time effectively within variable shift patterns.

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. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

Willing / able to attend appropriate training. Experience of training and development of staff. Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC). First Contact Practitioner / Advanced Practice qualification or RCN Credentialled practitioner with experience dealing with both children and adults. Non-medical prescribing qualification (V300). Recognised training in minor injury/illness, consultation, and examination skills. Telephone triage qualification.

Personal Qualities: Essential leadership qualities. Commitment to personal and professional development. Minimum 5 years post registration experience and a passion for working in an integrated urgent care system and working with partner organisations. Health Promotion experience. Experience using clinical computer systems including Adastra. Understanding of current Urgent Health care issues and initiatives. Understanding and awareness of CQC compliance and essential standards of quality and safety. Teaching experience/clinical supervision experience. Experience of working within a community Urgent Care setting or ED or an appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing practice. Evidence of clinical competence in a wide range of relevant clinical skills, local anaesthesia infiltration, suturing, x-ray interpretation, fracture management. The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services. Evidence of project management. 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.