PCN Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Lincoln

This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join South Lincoln Healthcare PCN as part of our expanding clinical team. The post holder will work within and across our 7 member practices (Bassingham Surgery, Branston & Heighington Family Practice, Brant Road Surgery, Church Walk Surgery, Cliff Villages Medical Practice, The Heath Surgery, Washingborough Family Practice) along with undertaking work for the PCN. It is anticipated that the post holder will mainly work across 3-4 practices, with a need to cover other practices on occasion, depending on need. The role will support the PCNs passion for providing an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and health inequalities across the PCN. Part time/job share would be considered. The post holder will need to hold a full driving licence and be prepared to travel between locations to support the remit of the role.

Main duties of the job include:

• Integrate and work within our member practices to enhance and support day to day access and capacity.
• Provide additional capacity support for the PCN care home team.
• Assess and triage patients of all ages (including children), including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways or make necessary referrals to other members of the Primary Care team).
• Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
• Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional, clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within Primary Care.
• Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement work across the PCN.

Optional for the right candidate:

• Provide programme leadership for our Cancer and/or Cardiovascular Disease Programme.
• Provide leadership for practice nursing teams.
• Provide support with the PCNs research programme.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads.

Follow organisational policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Report any incidents, accidents or complaints in a timely manner, taking appropriate action where necessary. Develop themselves and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities. Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety. Maintain accurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work. Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN. Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events. Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes. Attend a formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed. Perform other general tasks as assigned.

The list is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The post holder will be expected to carry out other tasks, which may be reasonably required by the employer. The post may be subject to change/review as the needs of the role change.

Person Specification:

• Have at least 1 years advanced clinical practice experience, of which at least 6 months in a primary care or urgent treatment centre (or similar) setting.
• Be working at masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge which is underpinned by theory and experience.
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients.
• Has a personalised care and What Matters to Me approach embedded within working practices.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage varied workloads with changing demands.
• Experience seeing patients of all ages, including children.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team within a primary care environment.
• Knowledge of local primary care services.

• Ability to support and manage patients including assessment, planning, evaluation and monitoring.
• Ability to work autonomously and within professional boundaries.
• Ability to demonstrate effective written, communication, counselling and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to exercise a high level of personal and professional autonomy.
• Ability and awareness to seek support from peers when faced with patients with presenting conditions outside of clinical knowledge.
• Participation in clinical audit/quality improvement work.
• Skills and experience in leadership.
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising).
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure.
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of SystmOne.

• Team player with a can do attitude.
• Willing to embrace change that will enhance the quality of the service.
• Flexible and cooperative.
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks.
• Problem solving & analytical skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

• Flexibility to work outside of core General Practice hours.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis.

• Hold a current professional body registration.
• Registered non-medical prescriber.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

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.