Advanced Practitioner

Job role: Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse/Pharmacist/Paramedic)

Job type: Full or part time (Multiple roles available)

Location: Giffard Drive Surgery, Farnborough

**Salary**: £65,000pa (FTE)

**About Us**

We are a rapidly growing GP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care within a sustainable primary care system.

We appreciate that our whole primary care system is struggling, which is causing a negative effect on patient care and staff happiness. We believe that we can turn this around by reimagining how primary care is delivered from the ground up by placing a focus on data insights, technology and clinical innovation.

Ultimately, we want to improve patient access, patient experience and health outcomes to significantly increase the quality of care for our patients. However, we can only build the best primary care service there is if our colleagues are happy, empowered and supported within an excellent working environment.

If you believe that there are ways to drastically improve the way primary care is delivered for both patients and staff alike and you want to be a part of this; then we would love to meet you and tell you more about our plans.

**Key Responsibilities**

Work as part of the multidisciplinary clinical team, for the provision of health care services to the patients of the organisation.

Work as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients within the scope of your capabilities.

The post holder will take professional accountability for working at advanced level within the remit of qualifications and capabilities, as defined by the appropriate Framework for Advanced Practice, and working within the organisations standards and protocols, and local and national frameworks for best practice.

Develop a portfolio of evidence demonstrating competencies and capabilities in the four pillars for nurses as defined in the Core Framework for Advanced Clinical practice ACP Primary Care Nurse Framework 2020.pdf (hee.nhs.uk) of,

1. Clinical practice

2. Leadership and Management

3. Education

4. Research

The post holder will be able to:
Demonstrate highly developed interpersonal and communication skills

Develop critical thinking, complex clinical reasoning, and problem solving skills

Be caring, compassionate clinician that is committed to high quality patient care

Practice, without direct supervision, as an autonomous primary care healthcare practitioner holding a masters to be able to practice across primary care settings according to profession specific framework and agreed scope of practice.

Safely manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations using data gathering, clinical examinations, diagnosis, organising investigations, safe prescribing, management, completing referrals, and follow-up within their agreed scope of practice and capabilities.

Participate in clinical audit and quality improvement projects.

Provide mentorship, supervision of other trainees, and appropriate leadership activities.

Mentorship and clinical supervision will be provided by designated Educators. The level and type of clinical supervision will be flexible depending on the post holders skills, knowledge, and capabilities, and determined by the organisations clinical governance arrangements.

**Clinical Responsibilities**
- Safely manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations using data gathering, assessing for red flags, investigation, diagnosis, management, and review within their agreed scope of practice and capabilities. This will include within the organisation setting, home visits and care homes.
- Must demonstrate complex clinical reasoning skills, to use problem solving approaches to analyse and synthesise information, manage medical and clinical uncertainty particularly in relation to a wide range of contexts and clinical presentations, and to include physical, mental, and social problems.
- Have a sound understanding of referral pathways including routine, urgent, 2-week wait and emergency admissions Use resources appropriately and effectively.
- Manage acute/chronic presentations and medical complexity.
- Safely and effectively use a range of consultation modes to include telephone, video, online and face to face.
- Prescribe treatment and medication safely in line with local and national guidelines (where professional regulation and training permits i.e., an independent prescriber).
- To offer personalised care to people and signpost to and link with other members of the organisation or wider health and social care team.
- Make every contact count in terms of public and patient health. Provide health promotion and patient education in supporting patients for healthier lifestyle, self-care and in managing their own conditions.
- Understand the needs of the organisations population and work to meet them effectively as part of the wider team.
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