Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- NHS
- Full Time
- Saltburn-by-the-Sea
- Negotiable
Job Description
Job summary
Whitby Coast and Moors Primary Care Network are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and compassionate Advanced Clinican Practitioner. Our PCN is setting up a new multidisciplinary holistic care team to provide dedicated support and care for patients with complex needs. The team will care primarily, but not exclusively, for older adults.
You will have the opportunity to share in the development of this new team which will focus on health, wellbeing and independence.
You will need to have clarity of professional identity and be comfortable working with a degree of uncertainty as new services are tested and developed.
In this new team there will be plenty of opportunity to use your service development, leadership and excellent clinical skills as you work with others to improve outcomes for patients.
If you are excited by the chance to work in a brand new team designed to make a real difference to patients' lives, and based in a beautiful area, please consider this role.
Main duties of the job
This key role will be embedded in the PCN Pilot and Transformation Team within Whitby Coast and Moors Primary Care Network, which supports system wide collaborative working to deliver multiple projects in work streams.
The post holder will provide strategic nursing leadership to the delivery of holistic services across the organisation, with a specific focus on complexity. The advanced clinical practitioner role will be primarily focussed within theholisticcare team. You will provide leadership to the team in evaluation and monitoring of the service, provide specialist assessment as per the service users, and carers requirements.
You will lead with other senior colleagues the continuing development of a high-quality service that is underpinned by evidence-based practice and care pathways / packages and NICE guidance.
You will be required to engage a range of key partners and stakeholders, and lead on joint working across health and social care. They will need to work closely with colleagues within the PCN, Practices, councils, and the voluntary and community sector. You will also work alongside our primary care locality groups to support them in meeting their priorities around prevention and self-care.
About us
Whitby Coast and Moors PCN was founded in 2020 and consisted of 5 GP surgeries namely, Whitby Group Practice, Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice, Danby Surgery, Egton Surgery and Staithes Surgery with a population in the region of 25,500 patients. Since inception the patient population has grown to approximately 27,010 and Danby and Egton surgeries merged to become Esk Valley Medical Practice.
Our teams consists of a highly skilled group of clinical, administrative and reception staff. We have a progressive attitude, are a very forward-thinking PCN with a passion for delivering excellent patient care and are always looking for new ways to work innovatively and efficiently.
We are situated within the beautiful area of Whitby and the surrounding Esk Valley
Job responsibilities
Core Clinical Function
Provide a welcoming, compassionate, and professional service to all patients.
Offer guidance and reassurance during procedures or assessments.
Ensure patients dignity, privacy, and confidentiality are always respected
Aid in identifying patients with highly complex needs who would benefit from intervention
Manage and oversee management and care of service users with highly complex needs
Act as the key accessible professional for the MDT proactively managing a clinical caseload. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy, using analytical and judgemental skills in undertaking differential diagnosis to ensure the delivery of appropriate care
Work as an autonomous practitioner providing an expert level of care, developing own and others knowledge within the speciality
Proactively manage a caseload of patients within speciality and prioritise workload to meet patient and service need
Take the lead in the development and implementation of Individualised management plans for the speciality through holistic needs assessment, planning and evaluation of care and all care interventions
Effectively manages pathways of care, adapting to patients emerging needs by ensuring a planned and co-ordinated approach to care, reducing inappropriate admissions to improve patient experience and safety
Receive and act upon referrals directly from health care professionals and makes referrals to other team members and specialist departments as necessary to ensure optimal quality of care
Ensure that patients individual needs are expressed and valued, and individual care plans are understood.
Act as a patient advocate to facilitate the process of shared decision making in
respect to health, choice of treatment and care. Use interpersonal and communication skills where there may be significant barriers to build confidence.
Advise on the complex disease and symptom management for patients
Evaluate response to interventions and advise on the adaptation of management.
Empower patients to self-manage their condition, undertaking risk stratification todetermine those who can self-manage following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will need on-going face to face support.
Work autonomously in the development and delivery of clinics in line with Nationalguidance and local service need.
Provide clinical advice and input to commissioning in relation to complex services.
Act as a resource providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support acrossservice boundaries to ensure optimum liaison and co-ordination of care.
Undertake clinical competencies relevant to this specialist service to demonstrateexpertise in extended clinical roles.
Assess and effectively manage individual psychological reactions to diagnosis, treatment and associated side effects of interventions and medication
Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenanceof accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with yourProfessional Code of Conduct and PCN / Practice policy
Management & Leadership
Work with partner agencies including commissioners and influence their strategies in health and personal care of which complex will be a part of.
Be a credible and visible source of clinical expertise and leadership to others across the organisation, acting as a role model demonstrating high standards of holistic care.
Supervise the patient caseloads of more junior members of the clinical team assuming overall responsibility where applicable.
Lead and line manage junior members of the team of specialist clinicians including responsibility for annual appraisal where applicable.
Contribute to budget management where appropriate.
Analyse complex information including trends to support the delivery of complex services and review performance against defined targets.
Lead or contribute to annual service review and write annual report to reflect service activity and development.
Contribute to service re-design, leading on areas where appropriate.
Promote an ethos of continual service improvement and lead specific projects, monitoring progress in terms of milestones and key measures of performance.
Demonstrate transformational leadership through open communication, transparent decision making, seeking to motivate and involve others in developments in the speciality.
Embed public and patient involvement within the sphere of practice.
Lead on elements of the clinical governance agenda where appropriate to service.
Help scope, develop and implement the frailty strategy/service
Support the further development of complex conditions
Represent the PCN by contributing to and participating in meetings locally, regional and nationally relating to the speciality.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive and up to date post registration experience at band 7 or above within the speciality
- Proven leadership skills
- Experience of delivering service improvement
- Experience of managing significant change/ initiative projects
- Experience of working autonomously within the specialist area
Desirable
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of research, audit and evidence-based care
- Working with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of student supervision and teaching
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in speciality
- Advanced specialist knowledge of the diagnosis and current management of the disease/speciality area
- Evidence of highly effective planning and organisational skills Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver ...
