Job Description

Job Overview

Modality Partnership Walsall Division has a full-time vacancy for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for 37.5 hours per week working at Pleck Health Centre. The successful candidate will play a vital role in delivering high-quality patient care, utilising advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and manage patient conditions across the Walsall Division. This position requires a strong foundation in anatomy knowledge and the ability to administer medications effectively. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is starting from 55,000 per annum WTE. Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioners are welcome to apply and starting salary for them would be 46,000 per annum WTE.

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.

As an employee with us you can benefit from

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Flexible working

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

The role is an all-rounded, clinical ACP role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as ability to work on own initiative, ability to develop an evidence-based, personalised, integrated health and social care plan in partnership with the individual, carers, relatives and health care professionals, based on a full assessment of medical, nursing and social care needs, and demonstrate ability to act as an autonomous advanced practitioner providing a comprehensive clinical assessment service to patients/carers/families resulting in safe, appropriate clinical decisions. The postholder will work in collaboration with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility and commitment and the postholder will be required to work on quality improvement as outlined in the job specification and work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills and development and operational skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

Advanced Practitioners are designated to the Network Contract DES roles for Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapists, Dietitians, Podiatrists, Occupational Therapists and Paramedics.

Advanced Practitioner has the following key responsibilities;

To assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.

Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.

Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.

Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Clinical practice:

Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care.

Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients within their area of work.

Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral. Manage own caseload and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices.

Participate in multidisciplinary clinics, participate in ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/ advice as per speciality and scope of practice. Using agreed protocols of clinical practice and professional guidelines. This service may be provided within an acute secondary healthcare facility or in primary, community or home care settings.

Within scope of practice and clinical competence request and / or undertake diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations related to plans of care.

Utilise scope of practice to undertake non-medical prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management.

Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment.

Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review, referring to other specialists as required. Provide guidance to staff, patients and their families and carers on pathway navigation 3 .

Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service.

Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients and their relatives/carers, making reports and liaising as required with medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team both verbally and in writing.

Use professional judgement to act as an advocate for patients to ensure a patient focused approach to the delivery of care. Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management. Escalate any concerns via the nursing / professional structures as required.

Work towards safe and timely discharge and/ or transfer of care of patients from or between hospitals and services and healthcare professionals, ensuring barriers to discharge / transfer are identified and acted upon appropriately.

Report and raise concerns related to Safeguarding, accessing advice and support as required. Be conversant with Trust policies for safeguarding including the assessment of mental Capacity, and consideration of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards(DOLS) and the application of the principles of Prevent (counter terrorism awareness).

Ensure effective and accurate verbal or written handover of patients between healthcare professionals.

Ensure that high standards of all documentation are maintained, with accurate, complete and up-to-date information regarding patient care are kept in accordance with Trust standards.

Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas. Identifying any skills or training gaps and escalating to the appropriate Senior Nurse or Clinical Lead.

Undertake training to develop further advanced clinical practice roles required by the service to provide a high standard of patient care.

Practice within the scope of professional registration (i.e. NMC, HCPC).

Communication

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Provide telephone triage. Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment. Communicate with and support patients who are receiving 'bad news'. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating. Anticipate barriers to communication and act to improve communication. Maintain effective communication within the practice environment and with external stakeholders. Attend and contribute to practice and primary care team meetings.

Delivering a quality service

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Support the maintenance of KPI's NHSLA compliance, CQC compliance and local and national clinical governance initiatives in close collaboration with the directorate senior nursing, medical and management and in collaboration with clinical governance teams.

Maintain improvements in patient safety by supporting implementation of patient safety initiatives, prompt and appropriate response to complaints resolution and escalation where appropriate.

Ensure patient safety by escalating any risks with staffing or service provision to directorate management team.

Report any issues with quality and safety immediately to a Clinical Lead or Clinical Director.

May be deployed to work in any part of the Trust should the need arise to ensure patient safety is maintained.

Leadership - personal and people development

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Provide highly visible and accessible professional leadership and demonstrate expert knowledge and standards of clinical practice.

Lead and develop a defined area of Advanced Clinical practice within the designated area of practice, promoting interdisciplinary team and collaborative working practices.

Meet regularly with team members as a team and on an individual basis as required to support their personal and professional development.

Promote team working, build rapport and collaborative working practices with multidisciplinary team. Liaise with inter-hospital departments and personnel across organisational and professional groups. Ensuring effective communication and interpersonal skills with other disciplines and organisations.

Act as a clinical role model demonstrating high standards of advanced clinical practice and provide support or advice to other staff when necessary.

Lead and support the development of the role according to changing patient's needs, service requirements and evidence base practice.

Lead and actively participate in service/ departmental projects, quality initiatives and statutory accreditation processes. This will include the setting and monitoring of clinical standards of care.

Ensure that all resources are managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner to achieve maximum effect for patients and staff.

Adhere to all relevant Trust policies and procedures and to ensure that they are correctly implemented.

Lead in the implementation of multidisciplinary service objectives that reflect Trust strategies for patient care.

Demonstrate effective leadership skills, supporting the senior management team (Nurse Consultant/ Lead ACP / Clinical Director) in service development and lead as delegated on the implementation of any of these changes.

Monitor standards and maintain high quality care. Report any clinical incidents via the Trust electronic reporting system and escalate issues promptly and appropriately.

Utilise the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills when dealing with complex, sensitive or emergency situations.

Maintain an awareness of professional and ethical issues to ensure care is delivered in a professional timely and courteous manner by all members of the team, respecting the different spiritual and cultural backgrounds of colleagues, patients and relatives.

Escalate any concerns or complaint s promptly 16. Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.

Responsibility for completing or delegating the preparation and daily review of staff duty rota's, ensuring that the team provides most effective service provision.

Accountable for own practice, acting at all times within the Professional Code of Professional Conduct (NMC, HCPC, CSP).

Maintain a working knowledge of local and national professional policy and strategy.

Attend and when required chair multidisciplinary meetings as a representative of the service. Ensure minutes and agreed actions are communicated to stakeholders according to agreed timescales.

Team working

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Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time. Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working. Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence. Create clear referral mechanisms to meet patient need. Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team. Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery. Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care. Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects as agreed with the practice management team. Agree plans and outcomes by which to measure success.

Management of risk

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Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines. Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs where appropriate. Oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements where appropriate. Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines. Advocate for policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all. Interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

NB: This job description outlines the key duties that are expected of you within the role of Business Secretariat although is not an exhaustive list. It may be amended in line with experience, business requirements and as a result of any future organisational change.

You will love this job if you have a passion for providing high quality patient care, thinking outside the box, are innovative and are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.

Pre-employment

Vaccinations

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification:

What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications and Experience:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Qualifications:

Registered first level general nurse.

Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.

MSc or equivalent.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years post registration experience.

Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience.

Mentor/teaching qualification.

Clinical supervision training and experience.

Extended/supplementary prescriber.

Experience of developing and maintaining positive and effective partnerships with partner organisations.

Knowledge:

Understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities and challenges.

Understanding of the national health and social care agenda and familiarity with emerging strategy.

Understanding of the strategic direction of the ACP role and how this may develop over time.

Advanced clinical practice skills in acute presentation of minor ailments.

Management of patients with complex needs.

Accountability of own role and other roles in a primary care service.

Local and national health policy.

Wider health economy.

Clinical governance issues in primary care.

Patient group directions and associated policy.

Skills:

Ability to work on own initiative.

Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.

Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.

Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.

Ability to lead/critically contribute to and influence the strategic agenda and translate complex strategy into deliverable operational objectives.

Ability to challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions and new alternative methods of service delivery.

Ability to align processes and systems to support and deliver priorities.

Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.

Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organisations.

Personal Qualities:

Self-directed practitioner.

Highly motivated.

Flexibility.

Enthusiasm.

Team player.

Ability to work across boundaries.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 46,000.00-55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 02/06/2025