First Contact Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you looking to take a first step into advanced practice? Interested in joining an organisation with an integrated FCP, orthopaedic triage and MSK service? Then SWFT has an excellent opportunity for you.

Following additional investment in our First Contact Practitioner workforce with are able to expand our workforce across two of our Primary Care Networks in collaboration with South Warwickshire GP Federation.

We are also seeking to attract clinicians interested in developing themselves into FCP with a number of trainee posts.


This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience of working in primary care providing valuable holistic care for patients combined with being part of a large MSK team working across acute and community services.


Most of the hours available are in the Arden PCN and Stratford PCN however we encourage informal conversations regarding preferred working locations.


Salary:
Band 8a/Band 7 dependent on competencies achieved. Full and part-time considered.

You will be required:


To become fully integrated within your Primary Care Network (PCN) and work as a key member of the primary care team.

You will also be expected to develop links with MSK physiotherapy colleagues within the service, local GP's, commissioners and other community and secondary care colleagues.


To be part of the primary care team and provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact practitioner and making decisions about the best course of action for patients' care (including in relation to undifferentiated conditions).

This will involve seeing patients, without prior contact with their GP, in order to establish a rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plan.


Progress and request investigations to facilitate diagnosis and choice of treatment regime, understanding the information limitations derived from these and the relative sensitivity and specificity of particular tests diagnostic services such as x-rays and blood test, and interpret and act on results to aid diagnosis and the management plans of patients.


Deliver programmes of supported patient self-management, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and that minimise the need for pharmacological interventions.

Signpost patients to the most appropriate service to manage their condition.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC.

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.


We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county.

We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work.

It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact practitioner, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills, to assess, diagnose and triage patients.

Lead, manage and contribute to service delivery.


Streamline the pathway of care by providing a responsive service that meets the needs of the Primary Care Network (PCN) to ensure that patients receive timely access to care.

Ensure care is proactive, preventive and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention.

Provide care which is tailored to individual needs. This would include, appraising the impact of individuals' clinical status on their general health, well-being and employment status (including in relation to function, physical activity, mobility and independence.

Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management.

Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers highly complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.

Provides learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary care including medical students and GPs in training.

Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and services.

Takes learning from primary care to help develop more integrated processes across primary and secondary care.


Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information.

Manages interactions in complex situations, including with individuals with
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