Overview
Local Care Direct is a non-profit Social Enterprise operating 24/7 to provide primary and urgent health care services across West Yorkshire.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Telephone Triage.
Salary: £29.02 per hour – £37.73 out of hours*
Location: Local Care Direct, Unit 2, Longbow Close, Pennine Business Park, Huddersfield, HD2 1GQ
Shifts Available: Shifts available across a 4 week rolling rota
Main duties of the job
- The advanced clinical practitioner will support the Urgent Community Response (UCR) services mission to deliver interventions within a 2-hour timeframe, either through face-to-face visits by partner clinicians or remote management.
- The advanced clinical practitioner will be an integral member of the clinical team to deliver high-quality patient care, involving the use of technology to conduct remote consultations for patients referred into the service.
- The advanced clinical practitioner will have a strong interest in complex triage and is skilled in remote consultations and confident in managing acutely unwell patients. The advanced clinical practitioner will strive to make a real difference by helping patients stay independent and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
About us
Nothing matters to us more than people – The way we treat our patients and the people who work for us; the way we do things and our commitment to keeping our promises are what we value most.
We do what we say we will do and we do it well – Local Care Direct is a Social Enterprise organisation providing a wide range of healthcare services in Yorkshire. We are a community-owned organisation, independent from the NHS, and committed to putting patients first.
Benefits
- NHS Pensions
- NHS Discounts (Blue light card)
- 25 days (pro rata) annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days
- Modern working environment with a positive atmosphere
- Health & Wellbeing group to support staff
- Supportive and Friendly team
- Annual Awards focused on raising money to support local charity
- Opportunity to build a clinical portfolio in face to face, ED Streaming, Walk in Centre, Urgent Treatment centre, home visiting and telephone/video consultation
Job responsibilities
To find out more about this exciting opportunity, please refer to the attached job description. This can be downloaded at any time.
Experience
- Evidence of a range of clinical experience, working independently in a healthcare role.
- Evidence of experience of triage, by telephone or face-to-face
- Continued professional and personal development.
- Experience of mentorship, leadership & research in clinical practice.
- Experience of working in more than one clinical setting.
- Minimum of 1 year experience in practice post qualification.
- Experience of working in primary/urgent care.
- Experience of managing paediatrics
- Experience of managing minor illness.
- Experience of managing chronic disease.
- Experience of managing geriatrics.
- Experience of telephone/video remote consultation.
Qualifications
- One of the following: 1st level Registered Nurse or equivalent professional qualification/registration with a professional body, MSc/Post Graduate diploma in Advanced practice, Paramedic HPC registration MSc/Post Graduate diploma in Advanced practice or Pharmacy GPhC Registration MSc/Post Graduate diploma in Advanced practice
- Independent & Supplementary prescribing qualification
- Spotting the sick child qualification
- Chronic disease management qualification
Knowledge & Skills
- Effective communication skills: verbal, written and non-verbal.
- Professionally accountable for clinical practice.
- Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
- Up-to-date knowledge of health agenda and health inequalities (local and national).
- Innovative approach to practice.
- Awareness of the impact of evidence-based practice.
- Able to develop self and others.
- Able to work effectively within and contribute to team working.
- Aware of impact of change on self and service.
- Experience of change management.
- Evidence of previous contribution to service change or improvement.
- Evidence of development of others in previous roles.
- SystmOne Experience
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.
Note: £29.02 an hour in hours (£37.72 an hour working out of hours)
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