Advanced Clinical Practitioner inRotherham inRotherham PUBLISHED FRI 6 DEC 2024

Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network is made up of several GP practices in the Rotherham area. We are recruiting a number of Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work in our friendly GP Practices.

We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work across Magna Group Practice which has 4 sites. You may be asked to work across more than one site.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will utilise a range of advanced skills and expert knowledge for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process. Clinical care will include new patient clerking, initial history taking, face-to-face assessment, examination, diagnosis, treatment, management, referral, and evaluation of care. You must possess a Digital Badge as this role is funded via the ARRS scheme.

• Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her own professional actions.
• Undertake clinical decisions at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care service.
• Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-urgent and chronic medical decisions.
• Obtain a clinical history, undertake appropriate physical examinations, and investigations, formulate differential diagnosis and carry through management treatment plans ensuring relevant follow up.
• Undertake pre booked emergency clinics, face to face consultations, telephone or video consultation.
• Working as part of a larger primary care network to improve patient care and ensure more efficient ways of working.
• Promote a learning environment for patients, nurses and other health professionals.

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• Maintain their professional registration. Work within the most up to date relevant professional standards set by individual profession governing body.
• Record accurate consultation data in patients records in the clinical systems (eg: EMIS, System One) in accordance with the up-to-date professional standards
• Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring consistent and accurate data entry and use of read codes.
• Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports to discuss with clinician as appropriate.
• As an independent prescriber, the post holder will prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework within scope of practice.
• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
• Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care and support patientswithSocio-economic issues.
• Promote health and well-being through, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills to improve self-care and promote independence for patients.
• Participate in screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of disease.
• Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate or after discussion with a GP.
• Undertake home visits, (including care homes), telephone/video consultations, telephone triage and support future developments in order to improve service delivery and patient experience. Encouraging patients to rely on face-to-face consultations only where there is clinical need to do so.
• Triaging Patients for GP emergency surgery and support the on-call GP as appropriate.
• Working with allied health professional to ensure Quality and Outcome Frameworks are delivered
• Under complex decision making which involves sensitive or contentious information and occasionally deal with situations which are hostile or emotive.
• Exercise professional judgment to manage risk appropriately especially where there maybe complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of the individuals families and carers.
• Use enhanced communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills and demonstrate empathy, reassurance and adopt persuasive skills to overcome barriers to acceptance.
• Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Practice, and across the wider primary care network to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
• Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review