Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job Description

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking to join a growing social enterprise with great benefits including a £4,000 welcome/retention bonus, NHS pension and NHS car fleet scheme? Primary Care 24 (PC24) are excited to share the position of Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within our Out of Hours Services.

The post-holder will need to be confident working alongside the wider multi-disciplinary team to communicate clinical decisions and compile individual management plans with system partners.
Within your professional boundaries you will assess, diagnose and provide advice, care and management to patients presenting with undiagnosed or undifferentiated illness via telephone consultations, or face to face assessments for patients requiring home visits.

Working in this role you will demonstrate clinical reasoning, critical thinking and autonomous practice, supported by GP colleagues in the out of hours setting.

Key responsibilities

Undertake face to face and telephone triage consultations demonstrating high levels of

competence/advanced

skills in clinical examination and diagnosis.
Interpret

pathology/radiology

results/reports and action where appropriate.
Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide enhanced discussions with patients and their families.
Embed core values and expectations of care, compassions, courage, communication, commitment, and competence into everyday practice.
Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national/local protocols and within scope of practice.
Plan, implement and evaluate an effective management plan for the patient, ensuring safe discharge/referral and/or transfer to an appropriate health care service.

About You

You will be an experienced ACP who is able to deliver quality individualised care to our patients with a high level of autonomy underpinned by the four pillars of Clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.

You will be expected to utilise your skills in advanced clinical assessment and diagnostics reasoning to make complex decisions to determine and initiate changes to treatment. Flexibility, compassion and a can-do approach is essential for this position.

The successful candidate will need to fulfil all the role requirements to be shortlisted for interview.

You will have a master’s in advanced clinical and able to undertake comprehensive assessments, diagnose, plan and prescribe medication. You will have experience of working in the acute sector, urgent/emergency services environment, or out of hours services at a senior level and undertake comprehensive face to face clinical examination via telephone consultations and face to face individual reviews.

What’s on offer?

Permanent opportunity
Part- and full-time options available
£2,000 welcome bonus T&Cs apply
£2,000 retention bonus T&Cs apply
£57,449 to £68,525 per annum DOE, based on a 37.5-hour week
NHS pension scheme
27 days annual leave
Continue Professional Development
Clinical Supervision
NHS car fleet scheme – T&Cs apply
Ride to work scheme
Long service rewards

Locations available:

St-Helens/Knowsley
Sefton
Formby and Southport
Warrington and Halton
Liverpool

About us

Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 1990, delivering NHS contracts exclusively.

Much of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHS with social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary care and caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.

This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore, it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.