Orthopaedic Arthroplasty Care Practitioner

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care needs, using high level knowledge to provide expert, evidence-based care.

To manage own case load of patients alongside the Doctors, developing individual agreed management regimes with the patient, that acknowledge and are responsive to their clinical, psychological, physiological and educational needs.

To facilitate a daily ward round of the patients alongside the Consultant/ward Doctors

To facilitate the running of elective consenting clinics, outpatient clinics including education, follow up appointments and joint review clinics to monitor onward progress, which includes Xray/imaging, blood tests and questionnaires.

Ensure governance processes are adhered to including the bone bank service and National Joint Registry.

Exercise judgement in assessing wide ranging and complex patient problems. Agree solutions, ensure and promote options to enable the delivery of optimum patient care. Undertake detailed clinical assessment and examinations, use high level clinical judgment to provided diagnosis, treatment plan and prescription of medications as required. Evaluate and amend clinical care as required. Escalate to the senior medical team as required.

To achieve and maintain the identified specialist competencies of a Specialist Clinical Practitioner with the ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information whilst also being able to break down obstacles to understanding.

Continue to enhance personal scope of practice to develop the Specialist Clinical Practitioner role within elective orthopaedics.

Responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care aimed at providing a high quality of service.

To utilise Specialist clinical skills and knowledge to instigate changes to treatment regimes, and to undertake the role of the patients advocate when appropriate.

Order investigations and prescribe medications as required using a high level of clinical judgment, using evidence-based practice and with reference to local and national guidelines as appropriate.

To have appropriate expertise and up to date knowledge related to investigations and treatment options in order to provide patients with necessary information to ensure informed consent.

Regularly review patients medications and ensure adherence to Trust Guidelines e.g. Antibiotic Policy.

To monitor response to treatment, detecting deviations from the expected outcomes. Assess and manage these using a high level of clinical judgment, escalating to the senior medical team when further input required.

Perform routine tasks delegated to them for which appropriate training has been received.

Please refer to the job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential

• Registered Healthcare Professional on relevant part of NMC/HCPC register
• Proven post registration experience within Trauma and orthopaedics
• Level 7 Post Grad Diploma. Minimum (120 credits) in ACP or Master's Degree (ACP). Or must be willing to undertake an intensive educational and on the job training programme to develop these clinical skills

Desirable

• Mentorship/teaching qualification
• Management and Leadership qualification
• Advanced Resuscitation (ALS, EPLS)
• Non-medical prescribing

Experience

Essential

• Specialist clinical skills and experience within T+O (e.g. venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation)
• Clinical experience at band 6 level within T+O or other relevant area
• Up to date knowledge of orthopaedic elective surgery and nursing requirements
• Understand, encourage and support clinical supervision
• Effective MDT working
• Act as expert for discharge planning for elective orthopaedic patients
• Experience of managing difficult situations with patients, relatives and colleagues
• Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality.
• Experience of involvement with change management
• Knowledge of infection control issues

Desirable

• Experience of being an autonomous practitioner
• Experience of leading a team

Skills

Essential

• To demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with trust values
• IT/computer skills to ensure collation of data and production of reports (Word processing, Excel, email and internet as a minimum), radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, and utilising patient systems
• Ability to work autonomously, plan, organise, prioritise and delegate appropriate interventions
• Confident of own knowledge base
• Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management
• Ability to synthesise information quickly and able to ...