Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
Welcome to FCMS!
Come and join our lively and vibrant team! 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!
It will be the responsibility of the post holder to, exercise clinical expertise, judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care within agreed parameters.
The post holder will provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor illness & injuries.
Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre works collaboratively with Morecambe GP Out of Hours to provide Morecambe Urgent Care ; as such there is an expectation to work across the services when required. There are opportunities for development, with training and mentorship to extend clinical competencies (illness or injury) for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets all are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets
- Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment / referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters
- Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group whilst working autonomously
- Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results
- To safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
- Be able to independently undertake telephone triage
- To 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
- Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise
- Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant professional body
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.
Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.
Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Development Opportunities
Attendance Bonus
Staff Benefit Scheme
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions
Job responsibilities
Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.
Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.
Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:
Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!
Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!
Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity
Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Development Opportunities
Attendance Bonus
Staff Benefit Scheme
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions
Knowledge, skills and experience required:
- Relevant professional qualification (MSc ACP / Non-medical prescriber).
- Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
- Experienced in undertaking telephone triage and remote prescribing
- Teaching and mentorship
- Up to date CPD Portfolio
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Able to articulate personal development needs
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations and demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Evidence of significant involvement in change
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within unscheduled care
- Ability to work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk across organisation and setting
- Ability to identify risk assessment and act accordingly
Clinical
- 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.
- Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations.
- Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE
- Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request, and review x-rays, treat minor injuries /implement expanded roles in practice
- 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.
- Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats
Professional
- Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
- 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 professional registration and practice through CPD
- Maintain a professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with NMC competency framework or other professional body
- Prescribe medication in accordance with competency, professional guidelines and NICE / CKS guidelines.
- Maintain NMP competency and regularly review prescribing practice through CPD and reflective practice.
- Maintain their personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent within FCMS, NMC guidelines or other professional body
- Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess own ...
