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Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS

Frimley

On-site

GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

16 days ago

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits an experienced advanced clinical practitioner to join a progressive Primary Care Network. This role focuses on enhancing patient access during evenings and weekends, providing urgent and routine care. You will work autonomously within a collaborative team, managing a diverse caseload and ensuring high-quality patient care. This position not only promises a dynamic work environment but also the chance to make a significant impact on community health outcomes. If you are passionate about patient care and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Must have advanced clinical practice skills and management of long-term conditions.
  • Requires first level professional registration and relevant health-related degree.

Responsibilities

  • Support core general practice capacity and manage a caseload of patients.
  • Provide urgent care and minor illness management with minimal supervision.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice skills
Management of patients with long-term conditions
Clinical examination skills
Strong clinical leadership
Highly effective communication skills
Negotiation and conflict management
Teaching and mentorship
Competent with spirometry performance

Education

Maths and English GCSE's (C and above)
First level professional registration
Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc
Community or Primary Care specialist qualification

Job description

This role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) with existing prescribing skills to join our Primary Care Network (PCN). You will support our local GP Practices with the provision of additional patient access on Saturdays and weekday evenings, working from a rotating site across our 7 GP Practices.

You will work under a Fixed Term Contract. Your work will primarily be focused on urgent and on the day appointments, but may include some routine general practice appointments depending on the needs of the PCN/practices and your skillset and experience.

Main duties of the job

You will support core general practice capacity and work as part of a positive, proactive and collaborative primary care clinical team supporting residents in Surrey Heath. You will be experienced in general practice and be able to work autonomously, managing a caseload of booked appointments for on-the-day and urgent care needs, with minimal indirect supervision from the onsite GP under a Primary Care Consultant model. You will need to be skilled in providing urgent care and minor illness management and providing support to patients with long term conditions.

You will be able to expertly manage an identified caseload or cohort(s) of patients and presenting complaints; providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care, demonstrating safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care evidence-based care.

About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 97,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary Care Network in Surrey Heath.

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications
  • Maths and English GCSE's (C and above) or equivalent
  • First level professional registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, GPhC). Relevant health-related degree. Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent level of practice evidenced through a recognised credentialing process. Mentor/teaching qualification. Extended/independent prescribing qualification.
  • Community or Primary Care specialist qualification.
  • Care of the elderly specialist qualification.
  • Additional qualification in management of a specific long term condition.
  • Clinical supervision training and experience.
Knowledge
  • Accountability of own role and other roles.
  • Local and national health policy. Wider health economy. Clinical governance issues in primary care. Patient group directions and associated policy.
  • Able to identify determinants of health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.
  • Knowledge of public health issues in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.
Skills
  • Advanced clinical practice skills, management of patients with long-term conditions, urgent and on-the-day needs.
  • Management of patients with complex needs.
  • Ability to manage patients at the point of presentation.
  • Clinical examination skills.
  • Strong clinical leadership.
  • Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Negotiation, resource and conflict management.
  • Change management / Service improvement.
  • Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.
  • Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
  • Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation.
Experience
  • Recent primary or community experience.
  • Healthcare-led management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
  • Healthcare-led triage.
  • Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines.
  • Clinical Leadership.
  • Audit and Research.
  • Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Qualification.
  • Project management.
  • Working with community development initiatives.
  • Health-needs assessment.
  • Experience as a supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
Other
  • Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Flexibility.
  • Team player.
  • Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions.
  • Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
  • Commitment to CPD/Revalidation.
  • Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.
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.

£29.33 an hour (from), depending on experience

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