A regular, fixed-slot advanced practitioner post at Lower Gornal Medical Practice, a GP practice serving around 7,600 residents. The work centres on assessing, diagnosing and treating undifferentiated acute and minor illness in 15-minute appointments for patients aged two and over, with some long-term condition reviews. You are offered a set day or days each week, up to three, within a Monday to Friday service running 08:00 to 18:30. Recent primary care, urgent care or out-of-hours experience, and experience of independent prescribing, decide fit.
What the job involves
- Assess, diagnose and treat patients aged 2 and over with minor illness and undifferentiated acute conditions in 15-minute appointments
- Triage patients by telephone or face to face, including outreach or telephone-based support
- Review and manage patients with long-term conditions where clinically appropriate
- Work autonomously within scope of practice, using clinical reasoning to manage risk and make safe decisions
- Prescribe as an independent prescriber in line with formularies, national guidance and safe prescribing standards
- Request and interpret investigations and act on the results
- Safety-net patients and escal or refer to urgent, emergency or onward care
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous clinical records on EMIS
- Follow practice policies, including safeguarding, infection control, information governance and clinical governance
- Mentor junior staff, provide clinical supervision and contribute to nursing workforce development
- Take part in audit, learning and service improvement, and keep professional development and revalidation up to date
- Work within the wider practice team and PCN, and carry out other agreed duties, which may include travel to other sites
Qualifications
- Advanced practice qualification as an ANP or ACP
Registration & licences
- Appropriate professional registration
Experience
- Significant post-registration experience, including recent primary care, urgent care, out-of-hours or equivalent
- Independent assessment, diagnosis and management of undifferentiated patients, including minor illness
- Assessing and managing children aged 2 and over
- Independent prescribing in a clinical setting
- Managing risk, recognising the acutely unwell patient and escalating appropriately
- Working autonomously within scope of practice
Skills & knowledge
- Using an electronic clinical record system such as EMIS or Docman
Nice to have
- Reviewing patients with long-term conditions in primary care
- Experience of EMIS Web
- Audit or quality improvement experience
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
