Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Pay: £28.48- £31.73 per hour depending on experience

PLUS, a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6months

Hours: 24 hours per week

Accountable to: Associate Director of Clinical Services

Reports to: Lancashire Clinical Manager

Base: The post willbe based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The centre delivers urgent care services between 8am 8pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year across the UTCand GP Out of Hours. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of thispost.

About: Comeand join our lively and vibrant team!

Nestled in the lovely seaside town of Morecambe, we are an Urgent Care Centre with a highly skilled team, who deal with all ages, ranging from babiesto the elderly. We are a high-performance team with complimentary talents andskills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support, maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer!

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

It will be the responsibility of the post holder to, exercise clinical expertise, judgment, discretion and decision making in clinical care within agreed parameters. The post holder will provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor illness & injuries. Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre works collaboratively with Morecambe GP Out of Hours to provide Morecambe Urgent Care;

as such there is an expectation to work across the services when required. There are opportunities for development, with training and mentorship to extend clinical competencies (illness or injury) for the right candidate.

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure thatpatients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremelyeffective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

The post holder will:

• Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues

Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets all are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets

Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs

Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment / referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters

Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis and management of a client group whilst working autonomously

• Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results
• To safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
• Be able to independently undertake telephone triage
• To work within the parameters of current Non-medical prescribing legislation / guidelines.
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading…