Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Salisbury

Are you a tenacious, organised and skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner? Are you committed to delivering high-quality healthcare to patients? Do you want to make a real difference in people's lives? Come and join our team.

This Advanced Clinical Practitioner role will involve working alongside our multi-disciplinary team which consists of GP Partners, Advanced Clinical Practitioner Partner and Pharmacist Partner. They are all supported by Advanced Clinical Practitioners who lead on acute same day care, alongside the Home Visiting Team, First Contact Physio, Pharmacists, Practice Nurses and HCAs. We also have Social Prescribers who work as PCN staff dealing with the Mental Health of our patients.

The successful Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work as an autonomous practitioner, diagnosing, managing, prescribing and discharging patients with illness or injury across all age groups including young children. This may be by face-to-face consultation, telephone or video consultation.

Our mission statement is to be committed to providing high quality, patient centred care using a multi-disciplinary team approach, with patient and staff wellbeing at the heart of our Sarum Health Group family.

Main duties of the job

• The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) has been assessed as competent in practice using their expert clinical knowledge and skills.
• They have the freedom and authority to act and make autonomous decisions in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients.
• The ACP provides an opportunity for patients to avoid the need to be referred to a GP, thereby enabling them to receive timely care and negate unnecessary delay in receiving treatment.
• ACPs in primary care can develop close, long-term relationships with their patients and work in partnership with them to achieve optimum health.
• They are autonomous in making decisions based on assessment, diagnosis and interpretation of test results.
• They can independently prescribe appropriate medication, evaluate or refer to other specialists if necessary.

Job responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high-quality care.
• Triage the needs of patients, accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice both on site and during home visits.
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients health.
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Chaperone patients where necessary.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Recognise, triage and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required.
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF, etc.), complying with local and regional guidance.
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.).
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Registered with Professional body
• Relevant Nursing/health degree

Experience Essential

• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QoF)
• Working autonomously in an Advanced Practitioner role

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.

For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Millstream Medical Centre

Address: Avon Approach, Salisbury, SP1 3SL, United Kingdom

For questions about the job, contact: Practice Manager: Jessica Riva

Email: jessica.riva@nhs.net

Phone: 01722322726