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The position also involves program management to develop specialized care plans, conduct health screenings, and contribute to service improvement initiatives. Strong communication skills are essential for interacting with patients, families, and colleagues, often in sensitive situations. Additionally, the practitioner will play a leadership role, mentoring new staff, participating in clinical meetings, and engaging in research and audit activities to enhance clinical practice within the surgery.
Whittle Surgery is looking for an Advanced Care Practitioner to work 24 hours a week Wednesday to Friday as part of a large multi-disciplinary team.
You will join a friendly and helpful team who strive to provide excellent care to our patients.
The role involves seeing patients in practice, carrying out triage and visiting patients in their own home/care setting.
You will also be responsible for administrative work such as reviewing hospital letters and investigation results on a daily basis.
About us
Clinical Practice
The Advanced Care Practitioner works autonomously and is accountable for own professional actions.
Undertake clinical practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care services.
Assess, diagnose and treat patients attending surgery or via home visits with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
Assess, diagnose and treat patients in surgery or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
Directly admit patients to secondary care hospital in acute medical need.
Refer patients to other medical specialties for assessment if deemed appropriate.
Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations.
Undertake and interpret a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures e.g. venepuncture, blood pressure monitoring etc.
Make critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job e.g. first contact with patients presenting acutely and manages care in the presence and absence of protocols.
Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referrals of patients to hospital consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
Advise and support others where standard protocols do not apply.
Work within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
Work within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning and risk management.
Extended and supplementary prescribing
Care and Programme Management
Develops and manages highly specialised programmes of care and care packages and provides highly specialised advice concerning care normally beyond the scope of normal working practice e.g. establishes differential diagnoses, management/treatment plans and makes referral as appropriate. Makes fast track referrals
Communicates highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives and carers
Initiates the process of diagnosis with patients suspected of have a chronic disease e.g. diabetes, COPD, asthma, IHD referring to other clinical staff as appropriate
Contribute to practice targets e.g. QoF, Quality Contracts, DES/LES
Audit outcomes against standards and initiate changes as necessary
Actively be in involved in service development within the practice e.g. DES/LES implementation
Health Improvement
Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening and ensure other team members are aware of health agendas and screening programmes
Work to introduce new developments that will improve health outcomes for patients
Communication
Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and frequently deals with situations which are hostile or emotive
Uses developed communication, negotiation, conflict managements skills which require empathy, reassurance and persuasive skills where there can be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome
Regularly communicate service related information to partners, practice manager, salaried GPs, nursing and administrative staff, patients, relatives and carers
Management
Develop a leadership role within the practice
Encourage and motivate other members of the nursing team
Develop and lead on evidence based practice
Actively participate in clinical and practice meetings
Assist in the mentorship and training of new nursing staff
Research and Audit
Continuous involvement in research/audit
Identify, apply and disseminate research/audit findings relating to clinical practice
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