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KPCN Advanced Clinical Practitioner
4 months ago
Job summary
We are looking for a confident and dedicated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team, delivering exceptional healthcare services to residents in care homes across Kendal. Your role will involve working across three practices, where your skills and passion for elderly care will be highly valued. The post holder will demonstrate autonomous and critical thinking and is a caring, compassionate and committed experienced clinical practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients living in care homes. The post holder will commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the care home staff, the general practice and community teams to meet the needs of patients, providing nurse leadership as required.
The role involves remote working, in care homes in the Kendal area. It may on occasion involve some out of hours or flexible working to support patient need.
If you are a proactive and passionate practitioner with a commitment to enhancing the care of older adults in care homes, apply today to join our dedicated team in Kendal
Main duties of the job
- Provide expert clinical care and management for older adults in care homes.
- Utilise prescriber qualifications to ensure optimal medication management.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver holistic patient care.
- Support and advise patients, families, and carers with your clinical expertise.
- Promote and implement best practices in care of older adults, ensuring high standards of dignity and respect.
About us
Kendal Primary Care Network currently consists of three practices, Captain French Surgery, the James Cochrane Practice and Station House Surgery, all based in the same town, offering Primary Care to over 38,000 patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical practice
Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective and plan clinical care accordingly.
You will be responsible for diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illnesses, or with a new medical complaint, as well as seeing and advising patients regarding continuing medical needs. You will be able to work independently, however, clinical support will always be available.
Assess, diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs.
Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate), whilst also considering patients care needs in their best interests who are nearing the end of their lives and in whom a supportive care approach is more appropriate.
Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
Consider the complexities of covert medication administration in a limited situations in context of the patients' best interests.
Communication
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
Work with the patient, cares, family and next of kin to develop advanced care plans, including resuscitation and end of life care.
Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
Maintain excellent and effective communication within the team environment and with our community colleagues.
Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues.
Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate
Delivering a quality service
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by your professional body.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
Deliver care according to best practice.
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
Evaluate patients' response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
Use a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis, LEA, SEA) to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events.
Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.
Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused adults and be aware of statutory vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.
Leadership personal and people development
Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.
Support staff development in order to maximise potential.
Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency or actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services.
Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to the area of work.
Enlist support and influence stakeholders and decision-makers in order to bring about new developments in the provision of services.
Take a lead role in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards where necessary.
Act with utmost professionalism with patients, carers, families and colleagues.
Team working
Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.
Where necessary, support the development of clear referral mechanisms to meet patient need.
Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are utilised.
Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.
Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.
Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects as agreed with the care home team.
Management of risk
Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines.
Advocate for policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all.
Managing information
Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
Review and process data using accurate clinical codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases.
Understand responsibility of self and others to the practice regarding the Freedom and Information Act.
Learning and development
Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families, and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.
Maintain your own professional learning and mandatory training.
Duties will vary from time to time under the direction of the clinical director and network management leads, in agreement with the post holder, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.
All staff have an individual responsibility to comply with the organisations policies and practices.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Registered first level nurse MSc or equivalent Relevant nursing/health degree Mentor/teaching qualification Clinical supervision training Independent prescribing qualification Experience of working in frailty and the care of older adults
Experience
Essential
Working autonomously in an advanced clinical practitioner role Managing both acute care needs and long term health problems relevant to older adults Audit Research Prescribing
Desirable
Working with community development initiatives Health needs assessment Experience of working within a primary care or General Practice Experience of case management
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long term condition Management of patients with complex needs Clinical examination skills Accountability of own role and other roles in a community health team Local and national health policy Wider health economy Clinical governance issues in primary care Clinical leadership skills Communication skills, both written and verbal Communication of difficult messages to patients and families Negotiation and conflict management skills Change management Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting Resource management
Desirable
EMIS web Knowledge of public health issues
Other
Essential
