Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner Fixed Term

Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner Fixed Term

This role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced paediatric advanced clinical practitioner(PACP) with existing prescribing skills to join our organisation. You will support our local GPPractices with the provision of additional patient access on weekdays and Saturdays, workingfrom our clinical Hub. You will be part of a service which covers 08 00 Monday toFriday and Saturday 09:, and you will work agreed duties within these service times.

Main duties of the job

You will support core general practice capacity and work as part of a positive, proactive and collaborative primary care clinical team supporting children aged 0-17 years in Surrey Heath. You will be experienced in general practice and be able to work autonomously, managing a caseload of booked appointments for on-the-day and urgent care needs, with minimal indirect supervision from the onsite GP under a Primary Care Consultant model.

You will need to be skilled in providing urgent care and minor illness management andproviding support to children with long term conditions. You will be able to expertly managean identified caseload or cohort(s) of patients and presenting complaints; providing care forthe presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment andevaluation of care, demonstrating safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert careevidence-based care.

As above, your work will primarily be focussed on urgent and on the day appointments, butmay include some routine general practice appointments depending on the needs of theFederation/practices and your skillset and experience.

About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practicesacross 10 sites, covering a population of over 103,000 patients across Surrey Heath. Webegan in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporatesupport teams. Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary Care Network in Surrey Heath.

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our memberpractices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and systempartners, in the provision of community based healthcare services.We are dedicated toproviding safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery andpositive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring ourpatients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when theymay be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to leadhealthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification

Person Specification Knowledge

• Accountability of own role and other roles.
• Local and national health policy.
• Clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Patient group directions and associated policy.
• Able to identify determinants of health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICs.
• Knowledge of public health issues in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICs.

Skills

• Advanced clinical practice skills, management of children with long-term conditions, urgent and on-the-day needs. Management of children with complex needs. Ability to manage children at the point of presentation.
• Clinical examination skills.
• Strong clinical leadership.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Negotiation, resource and conflict management.
• Change management / Service improvement.
• Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.
• Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
• Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation.

Experience

• Recent paediatric primary or community experience.
• Healthcare-led management of paediatric minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
• Healthcare-led paediatric triage.
• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Clinical Leadership.
• Audit and Research.
• Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Qualification.
• Project management.
• Working with community development initiatives.
• Health-needs assessment.
• Experience as a supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.

Other

• Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
• Flexibility.
• Team player.
• Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions.
• Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
• Commitment to CPD/Revalidation.
• Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

Qualifications

• First level professional registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, GPhC).
• Relevant health-related degree.
• Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent level of practice evidenced through a recognised credentialing process.
• Extended/independent prescribing qualification.
• Maths and English GCSEs (C and above) or equivalent.
• Community or Primary Care specialist qualification.
• Care of the elderly specialist qualification.
• Additional qualification in management of a specific long term condition.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.