Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Local Care Direct is a non-profit Social Enterpriseoperating across 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to providevarious primary and urgent health care services across West Yorkshire.

We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Salary:£29.02 per hour - £37.73 out of hours

Shifts Available:
To be discussed at interview

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will practice, without direct supervision, as an independent primary / urgent care healthcare practitioner within variousclinical environments, participating in care of all age ranges and presentingconditions.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will undertake assessment, diagnosis, treatment/referral and discharge of patients with primary/urgent care needs within their clinicalcompetence.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will provide clinical mentorship and leadership to alltrainee and peer practitioners within the workplace when required.

Nothing matters to us more than people - The way we treatour patients and the people who work for us; the way we do things and our commitment to keeping our promises are what we value most.

We do what we say we will do and we do it well - Local Care Direct is a Social Enterprise organisation providing a wide range of healthcare services in Yorkshire. We are a community-owned organisation, independent fromthe NHS, and committed to putting patients first.

A few Benefits of working for Local Care Direct are:

NHS Pensions

NHS Discounts (Blue light card)

Modern working environment with a positive atmosphere

Health & Wellbeing group to support staff

Supportive and Friendly team

Annual Awards focused on raising money to support localcharity

Opportunity to build a clinical portfolio inface to face, ED Streaming, Walk in Centre, Urgent Treatment centre, home visiting and telephone/video consultation

• Independently prioritise, assess, treat, and safely discharge/refer patients attending with undifferentiated and undiagnosed urgent primary health care problems
• Undertake a range of clinical consultations via a range of modalities primarily face to face but may include telephone and home visits (service specific).
• Act as a referral agent and care co-ordinator by establishing multi-agency collaboration across the primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of the patient.
• Work within the parameters of current prescribing legislation or approved Patient Group Directives.
• Provide professional and clinical advice and direction to colleagues within your team.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous records.

Research and Quality

• Demonstrate evidence-based care, working within agreed guidelines and protocols.
• Participate in audit, data collection and activity monitoring to improve performance and inform future service developments.
• Proactivity report patient safety incidents in line with NHSs Just Culture and respond to Local Care Directs Quality Teams requests for information during incident investigations.
• Take an active role in the management of safety incidents and organisational learning.

Management

• Actively promote integrated working in collaboration with other health care professionals both within and outside the LCD organisation.
• Contribute to the development, implementation, review and evaluation of clinical protocols.
• Ensure effective communication, participating in meetings and liaising with other professionals, services and agencies as required.

Professional and Educational

• Develop own skills and competencies through education, training and development activities related to the current and future demands of the role, seeking opportunities to enhance skills, undertake annual internal performance development review (PDR), in order to maintain current Registration and achieve Revalidation standards.
• Work within codes of conduct and practice set out by relevant professional body.
• Comply with the corporate governance structure in keeping with the principles and standards set by the organisation.
• Ensure clinical supervision needs are met.
• Participate in teaching and mentoring other health professionals including, but not exclusive of, trainee ACP, trainee UCP and GP Registrars from Deanery.

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