Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Practitioner (Primary Care) in Saltburn-by-the-Sea

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our clinical team at Huntcliff Surgery for 3-4 days per week. Based in the Victorian seaside town of Saltburn by the Sea, Huntcliff is a busy, forward-thinking training practice caring for a growing population of approximately 10,000 patients.

Our vision is to provide high quality, safe and personalised care, combining the values of traditional family medicine with modern, proactive primary care. We place patients at the heart of what we do, with a strong emphasis on prevention, continuity, supporting people to manage their own health and providing timely access to the right care.

We are looking for someone who shares our values of kindness and respect, integrity and teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement, and who wants to play an active part in the ongoing development of our practice.

Main duties of the job

• Working as an autonomous practitioner, you will use advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills to assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic conditions, both within the practice and through domiciliary visits where clinically appropriate.
• You will work collaboratively with our GPs and wider multidisciplinary team, independently prescribing within your scope of practice, interpreting investigations and referring appropriately where further specialist care is required.
• The role will include health promotion, disease prevention and chronic disease management, alongside opportunities to contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and the review and development of clinical policies and pathways.
• We are looking for a confident and compassionate clinician who values both professional autonomy and collaborative working and who is committed to delivering excellent patient care.

About us

Huntcliff Surgery is an established and successful training practice situated in the heart of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. We have a list of approximately 10,000 patients and a multidisciplinary team of GPs, advanced and practice nursing staff, healthcare professionals and an experienced reception and administration team.

We want Huntcliff to be a place where patients receive excellent care and where people enjoy coming to work. We value respect, openness, teamwork and personal responsibility, and encourage everyone within the practice to contribute ideas and identify opportunities to improve the way we work.

Continuous improvement and professional development are important to us, and we support our clinicians to develop their knowledge, skills and areas of professional interest. For the right candidate, this is an opportunity to join a friendly and supportive team while having a genuine voice in the continuing development of the practice.

Informal enquiries and visits to the practice are warmly welcomed.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a first point of contact for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs.
• Provide domiciliary visits.
• Using advanced assessment skills of history taking and clinical examination, make a diagnosis and initiate an appropriate plan of care, including referral to other health and social care professionals as necessary.
• Provide ongoing education and health promotion in relation to primary prevention/secondary prevention.
• Organise and manage own patient caseload.
• Request, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to assess patients' clinical problems or monitor progress.
• Manage patients with long term conditions, including the development, implementation and evaluation of individualised treatment plans.
• To provide a holistic clinical assessment drawing on knowledge about the wider determinants of health and ill health.
• Independently prescribe medication within own scope of practice and undertake medication reviews in accordance with current guidance.
• Participate in the development and implementation of Practice/PCN and wider system clinical pathways and guidelines where appropriate.
• Provide clinical care within own scope of practice and recognise, assess and appropriately refer patients presenting with mental health or safeguarding needs.
• Provide expert clinical advice and support within the practitioners area of competence.
• Establish links with Secondary Care providers to help deliver changes in care pathways and protocols.
• Work with nursing/medical teams in providing proactive management of patients with chronic diseases in accordance with local/national policy.
• Collating data and involvement in Chronic Disease Management for disease specific areas including Hypertension, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Asthma and COPD as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Reviewing patients on other registers including Mental Health, Frailty and Epilepsy Registers and inputting data where appropriate as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Undertaking audit of patients requiring review of further intervention.

Clinical Developments

• Establish initiatives which will contribute to improving access to quality services such as rapid access to minor injuries/minor illness, Chronic Disease management.
• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of peer clinical supervision and appraisal.
• Take an active role in clinical governance, quality improvement, clinical audit and significant event/near miss review, contributing to the development and implementation of clinical policies, pathways and guidelines.

General Responsibilities

• To contribute to the overall development and implementation of clinical developments at practice level.
• Provide evidence of continued professional development.
• Participate in regular and ongoing appraisal, taking responsibility for professional competency.
• To be aware of and utilise risk management strategies both clinical and organisational in all aspects of practice.
• Maintain current registration with the relevant statutory professional regulator and practise in accordance with its Code and requirements.
• To comply with health, safety and welfare of self and others within the requirements of health and safety regulations.
• To ensure confidentiality at all times and comply with the practice Caldicott requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current registration as a relevant health professional.
• Advanced clinical practice qualification at masters level, or equivalent evidence of capability against the NHS England framework.
• An Independent Prescriber Qualification.
• Relevant primary care experience and competence to assess and manage undifferentiated presentations.

Experience

• Experience of working in primary care.
• Experience of assessing and managing acute and chronic conditions.
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews.
• Experience of chronic disease management.
• Evidence of safe clinical decision making and working within own scope of practice.
• Working knowledge of the British National Formulary.

Other Requirements

• Access to appropriate transport and ability to travel within the locality to undertake domiciliary visits.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.