Advanced Clinical Practitioner

**About the Role**:
Canvey Island Primary Care Network is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries. The role is offered on a full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week.

The role will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice. The post holder will assist in the safe assessment, treatment, referral, and discharge of patients in their designated directorate.

**The post-holder will**:

- Work towards health promotion and prevention, comprehensively assessing patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions, which will include prescribing medication, where legally allowed, and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
- Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use, and provide direct support to patients and clients.
- Work in partnership with patients and support them to manage and live their lives.

For full details, please see the attached job description.

**Qualifications, skills and experience required**:

- Professional registration with relevant professional body: NMC, HCPC or GPhC
- MSc Advanced Practice
- Non-medical prescriber
- Significant post-qualification experience (minimum 4 years), in a relevant clinical field.
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Ability to perform in stressful and complex situation
- Sound clinical reasoning & decision making

For full details, please see the attached job description.

**About Us**:
Canvey Island PCN is a network made up of 6 surgeries who have 42,000 registered patients. Our member practices are: Oaklands Surgery, Third Avenue Doctor’s Surgery, The Island Surgery, The Surgery - Hawkesbury Road, The Community Practice and Canvey Village Surgery.

Our vision is to work in partnership with our colleagues and patients to provide the best primary care services in the community. Our team includes a variety of different professionals who can offer peer support and shared learning. This role will work as part of this large team that includes:

- Advanced nurse practitioners / advanced clinical practitioners
- Paramedics
- Care coordinators
- Social prescribers
- Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Nurse practitioners and healthcare assistants

We encourage our team members to share ideas and to offer suggestions for how our services can be delivered to improve our patient care across our local population.

All of our PCN staff are employed by GP Healthcare Alliance (GPHA). GPHA values staff and can offer:

- NHS pension;
- A supportive and friendly working environment;
- Flexible working hours;
- 20 days annual leave per year, plus bank holidays (pro rata), increasing based on length of service with the company;
- Peer support;
- Support with training and development;
- Reimbursement for parking and travel expenses for attending meetings/off site sessions.
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