Clinical Practitioner - ZERO HOURSinShrewsburyinShrewsburyPUBLISHED FRI 6 DEC 2024

Zero Hour Worker Vacancies Office Based Triage and Home Visiting

Role Overview: Clinical Practitioners work alongside our GPs in the Call Centre based in Shrewsbury performing telephone triage, responding to calls passed through the NHS 111 service, as well as referrals from other Professionals from within the community setting. Whilst Clinical Practitioners based at our main Shropdoc bases at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals, will respond to home visits when necessary in one of our distinctive livered Shropdoc cars with a driver provided.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with shift enhancements for weekend and bank holidays, access to a NEST pension, monthly paid annual leave at a rate of 12.07% of hours worked.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment: Join a team that values collaboration, innovation, and personal growth with regular one-to-one sessions.
• Career growth: Full on the job training provided with the opportunity to develop your career with professional development opportunities.
• Work-life balance: We understand the importance of work-life balance and will discuss hours with the successful candidate.

The Person We are particularly interested in hearing from healthcare professionals with a primary or urgent care background (with or without non-medical prescribing experience). However, training is provided, and we are more interested in people with the right attitude and approach to work rather than specific experience.

The Clinician must be both reliable, dependable and seeking a new challenge, have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and the confidence to work autonomously, making decisions without direct supervision, that said, support would never be far away when you need it.

The clinician will have the opportunity to expand their current knowledge, utilise current skills and progress their career within the unscheduled primary and urgent care setting.

How to Apply If you are looking for a rewarding job opportunity, we want to hear from you!

A full application pack is available to download by clicking links under Supporting Documents section towards the bottom of the page.

Applications forms together with a covering letter should be submitted

To view job description and person specification for this role, please click the links below available on this website.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact one of our friendly Clinical Team Leaders on .

About us

1 JOB SUMMARY

• Deliver autonomous practice and making every contact count, this exciting opportunity requires the Worker to work effectively within their professional boundaries, providing safe, holistic and effective compassionate care provision.
• Provide dynamic and diverse clinical service, working across the Call Centre, bases and in the Field, enhancing the patient experience and optimising service provisions.
• Focus on the management of the needs of the patient Out of Hours (OOH), providing exemplary care for patients who have reached a range of dispositions from 111 including referrals from District nurses, 999 and Rapid response/virtual ward.
• The Worker will have a range of clinical experience, working OOH under the supervision of our GPs based either in Longbow or remotely. They must have the ability to take a comprehensive history, combined with a structured approach to physical assessment over the telephone, with a more autonomous triage approach, and less pathway led, be able to show advanced decision-making with the use of critical thinking, under either direct or indirect GP supervision. The Worker will quickly identify those patients in the queue who are the sickest and those that can be streamed to one of our Shropdoc bases or for a home visit, ensuring appropriate allocation times frames for both face-to-face or home visits. The Worker will triage patients of all ages presenting with undifferentiated diagnosis, complex needs, acute and chronic conditions, for both physical, mental health and psycho-social needs. Liaising with other community-based health care practitioners (HCPs) such as GPs, Paramedics and Nurses about patient management, admission avoidance and, where necessary, admission into secondary care.
• Workers that hold a prescribing qualification will Prescribe necessary medications as part of a robust treatment plan, using good antibiotic stewardship, sick day rules, with advice and authorisation from GP colleagues when necessary. Workers that do not hold a Prescribing qualification will utilise Patient group directives (PGDs) where appropriate with the support of GP colleagues.

2 KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Please refer to the Job Description under 'Supporting documents' for a full list of tasks and respinsibilities.

At Shropdoc, we are committed to an inclusive workplace where all individuals, including those with disabilities, are valued. We encourage applications from candidates with disabilities and are dedicated to providing the support and adjustments needed for success in the role.

Shropdoc is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our patients and expects all staff, contractors and volunteers to share this commitment. Candidates will undergo thorough onboarding and safeguarding checks including checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We want to encourage individuals from all backgrounds, experiences and beliefs, who share our mission of keep the patient at the heart of all that we do to work with us.