Advanced Clinical Practitioner

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our healthcare team. Nestled in the lovely seaside town of Fleetwood, 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! Come and be a part of our amazing team!

Pay: £27.49 - £30.63 per hour depending on experience (pending uplift)

PLUS, a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6 months pro rata(applies to EXTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY)

Hours: 30hours per week

Main duties of the job It will be the responsibility of the post holder to, exercise clinical expertise, levels of judgment, discretion and decision making in clinical care, as demonstrated under agreed parameters. Provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor illness & injury needs. There are development opportunities with training and mentorship in order to extend clinical competencies (illness or injury) for the right candidate.

About us The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure thatpatients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled withexcellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremelyeffective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of ourpatients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the servicedelivery and user experience due to their considerable experience andcommitment to what they do.

Job responsibilities The post holder will:

• Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues
• 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
• Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs
• 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 nurse prescribing legislation
• 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
• Provide professional and clinical advice within the multi-disciplinary team

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:

• 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
• 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 -The post holder will:

• 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 -The post holder will:

• 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 workload within an accepted time frame
• Ensure appropriate use of resources to meet service needs
• Recognise and act as an advocate for patients, carers, service, and the organisation
• Carry out annual review of best practice/national standards and implement recommended changes
• Promote workforce integrity (empower professional accountability within the clinical team, ensure accreditation process followed, complaints management, competency assessment, ensuring mandatory training requirements fulfilled, robust clinical induction)
• Maintain a sound knowledge of NHS policy and NICE guidance in relation to scheduled and unscheduled care

Education and training -The post holder will:

• Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within a personal development plan
• Develop and distribute educational leaflets in relevant formats, for patients relating to services and patient pathways
• Ensure personal, peer support and clinical supervision needs are met
• Contribute to clinical governance outcomes
• Understand and apply professional and national guidelines on confidentiality
• Be fully involved in the progress and development of clinicians and provide constructive and relevant feedback
• Assist in the implementation of training and development in your locality

Research and development -The post holder will:

• Evaluate clinical practise through audit of service and develop and manage strategies to address any shortfalls
• Undertake audits as required by the service working with the clinical manager
• Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of their work and advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings
• Initiate and/or become involved in research projects in response to identified needs
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