This is an exciting opportunity for anAdvanced Clinical Practitioner to join an innovative and supportive PrimaryCare Network.
The post holder will work regular weeklysessions in the practices and be an integral member of the General PracticeTeam. This is different to many isolated PCN roles, it is an opportunity tobecome part of a progressive organisation where clinical excellence, teamwork,and staff wellbeing are central to everything we do.
The post holder will work within our 7member practices (Bassingham Surgery, Branston & Heighington FamilyPractice, Brant Road Surgery, Church Walk Surgery, Cliff Villages MedicalPractice, The Heath Surgery, Washingborough Family Practice) along withundertaking work for the PCN. The post holder will mainly work across 3-4practices, with a need to cover other practices on occasion.
The successful candidate will receive:
- Competitive salary package
- Supportive and flexible workingenvironment
- Clinical mentorship and peersupport
- Access to training andcontinued professional development
- Opportunities to shape servicesand influence strategic development
- A genuinely collaborativeculture across all seven practices
- Strong leadership andoperational support
Part time/job share would be considered.
Main duties of the job
The role will mainlyconsist of providing a mixture of on the day and routine consultations whichmay be face to face, telephone, online or home visits. In addition, thepostholder will spend a smaller proportion of their time supporting the PCN byworking with our care home team. This would involve supporting with triage,telephone consultations and visits to care homes.
The role willrequire the ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation andthis may include working outside of core General Practice hours or within ourEnhanced Access service.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitionerwithin our PCN, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality,patient-centred care across our member practices.
You will:
- Deliver autonomous clinicalassessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients presenting withacute and chronic conditions
- Prescribe independently whereappropriate
- Provide evidence-based care fora diverse patient population
- Work collaboratively withinmultidisciplinary teams
- Support service development andquality improvement initiatives
- Contribute to the ongoingtransformation of primary care services across the network
- Help shape innovative ways ofworking to improve patient outcomes and staff experience
About us
Our Primary Care Network serves avibrant and diverse community of approximately 50,000 patients. We are proudofthe strong relationships we have built across our seven member practices andour reputation for innovation, collaboration, and high-quality patient care.
At South Lincoln Healthcare PCN, we arepassionate about building sustainable primary care services. By investing inour people and working closely across our network of practices, we cultivate anenvironment that delivers clinically excellent patient care while ensuring ourclinicians are fully supported both professionally and personally.
By working togetherour ambition is to strengthen and stabilise general practice.
Our aim iscontinue to provide high quality healthcare to our patients in the community,whilst taking up opportunities to improve and extend our services.
South LincolnHealthcare is supportive of all staff and strives to cultivate inclusivity anda sense of belonging.
PLEASE NOTE: Wereserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficientnumber of applications.ns.
Job responsibilities
- Integrate and work within our member practices to enhance and support day to day access and capacity.
- Provideadditional capacity support for the PCN care home team.
- Assess and triage patients of all ages (including children), including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways or make necessary referrals to other members of the Primary Care team.
- Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathologyand take appropriate action.
Use complex decision making to inform thediagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within abroad scope of practice.
- Activelytake a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with thepresenting person.
- Completethe relevant training in order to provide multi-professional, clinical practiceand CPD supervision to other roles within Primary Care, for example, firstcontact practitioners and personalised care roles.
- Undertakeclinical audit and quality improvement work across the PCN.
- Optionalfor the right candidate
- Provide programme leadership for our Cancerand/or Cardiovascular Disease Programme
- Provide leadership for practice nursing teams(i.e. the importance of SMI health checks, elderly health checks, LD healthchecks)
- Provide support with the PCNs researchprogramme
Beresponsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads.
Followorganisational policies, protocols, procedures, and standards.
Report any incidents, accidents or complaints in a timely manner, taking appropriate action where necessary
Develop themself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
Contribute to a patient safety culture throughreporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
Maintainaccurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work.
Supportin the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalfof the PCN.
Participatein the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participatein the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinicalincidents and near-miss events.
Undertakeall mandatory training and induction programmes.
Attenda formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months. Once aperformance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.
Performother general tasks as assigned.
The list is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The postholder will be expected to carry out other tasks, which may be reasonably required by the employer. The post may be subject to change/review as the needs of the role change.
Person Specification
Experience
- Have at least 1 years advanced clinical practice experience, of which at least 6 months in a primary care or urgent treatment centre (or similar) setting, including managing a full range of undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions in patients of all ages (including children), to evidence autonomous clinical practice.
- Be working at masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge which is underpinned by theory and experience.
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients.
- Has a personalised care and What Matters to Me approach embedded within working practices.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage varied workloads with changing demands.
- Experience seeing patients of all ages, including children.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team within a primary care environment.
- Knowledge of local primary care services.
Skills
- Ability to support and manage patients including assessment, planning, evaluation and monitoring, including signposting and provision of health promotion and education to patients and carers
- Ability to work autonomously and within professional boundaries, including when ordering and interpreting investigations and developing interventions
- Ability to demonstrate effective written, communication, counselling and interpersonal skills
- Ability to exercise a high level of personal and professional autonomy, including making critical judgements to meet the expectations and demands of the role
- Ability and awareness to seek support from peers when faced with patients with presenting conditions outside of clinical knowledge
- Ability to work within a team, and with multiple teams in different settings
- Participation in clinical audit/quality improvement work
- Skills and experience in leadership
- Participation in research
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
- Good clinical system IT knowledge of SystmOne
Personal Qualities
- Team player with a can do attitude
- Willing to embrace change that will enhance the quality of the service and contribute to developing patient quality audits and pathways
- Flexible and cooperative
- Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
- Problem solving & analytical skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
Other Requirements
- Flexibility to work outside of core General Practice hours
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis
Qualifications
- Hold a current professional body registration
- Registered non-medical prescriber
- One of the following must apply to Masters level study:
- -Graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centres ePortfolio (Supported) Route; both pathways enable eligibility for an ‘Advanced’ digital badge issued by the Centre for Advancing Practice, demonstrating recognised educational and experiential preparation in advanced practice
- -Currently enrolled as a trainee on a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme
- -Currently enrolled on and progressed past the initial Learning Needs Analysis (LNA) stage of the Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio (supported) Route
- Evidence of continued professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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