Job Description

The Advanced Practitioner (AP) is an experienced clinician who has demonstrated advanced competence in practice through expert clinical knowledge, highly developed skills and sound clinical judgement. Working within their professional boundaries, the AP provides comprehensive, patient-centred care and manages episodes of care from initial presentation through to completion.

Advanced Practitioners are educated to Masters level and assessed as competent in advanced practice. This level of practice is defined by autonomous, high-level clinical decision-making, including the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex and multi-dimensional health needs. APs apply expert reasoning and judgement, exercising the authority to triage, refer, prescribe, admit and discharge within appropriate clinical areas. They possess highly specialised knowledge across a range of clinical procedures and pathways.

In this role, the Advanced Practitioner will:

Independently assess, diagnose and manage the holistic clinical needs of a broad and diverse patient population, working both autonomously and collaboratively within the interdisciplinary team.

Ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based care.

Provide specialist advice and clinical support to nursing staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Contribute to the setting, implementation and evaluation of clinical and professional standards within the service.

Independently triage and direct patients to the most appropriate professional following assessment, including via digital platforms.

Clinical

1. Take and record a patients history including medical, family and social history talking to the patient, relatives or other carers as appropriate. There may be significant barrier to understanding and acceptance due to sensitive or contentious information given and received.

2. Conducts a comprehensive clinical examination of the patient including a physical examination of all systems and a mental health assessment.

3. Screen patients for disease using clinical and other findings such as laboratory results or x-rays .

4. Make diagnostic decisions based on interpretation of clinical and other findings such as laboratory results or x-rays.

5. Applies high level decision-making and assessment skills to formulate appropriate differential diagnoses based on synthesis of clinical findings.

6. Has the authority to request, where indicated, appropriate diagnostic tests / investigations using judgement and clinical reasoning, based on differential diagnoses.

7. Conduct invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures where appropriate.

8. Interprets and analyses previously ordered results of tests/investigations and works collaboratively with other healthcare professionals when needed.

9. Acts on the results to confirm diagnosis and thereby optimise treatment and management outcomes.

10. Formulates an action plan for the treatment of the patient, synthesising clinical information based on the patients presentation, history, clinical assessment and findings from relevant investigations, using appropriate evidence-based practice.

11. Prescribe treatment including medications based on a sound knowledge of pharmacology.

12. Implements non-pharmacological related interventions/therapies, dependent on situation and technical requirements of care.

13. Has the freedom and authority to admit and discharge from identified clinical areas, dependent on patient need at time of review. This includes the freedom and authority to refer to all appropriate health care professional groups and agencies, working collaboratively with them.

Professional

14. Works autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

15. Works collaboratively to meet the demands of the service.

16. Innovate, develop and lead evidence based clinical practice and professional development.

17. Lead in the development of appropriate local policy and guidelines.

18. Contribute to the development of local policies in relation to the implementation of national and regional strategies.

19. Practice within the Legal & Ethical framework as established by Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) if ANP and National Legislation to ensure patient interests and well-being are met.

20. Empower patients to take responsibility for their health, well-being and future lifestyle by practising in an open transparent and inclusive manner; thereby ensuring patients have the relevant information to participate in decisions about their care.

This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and the post holder is expected to carry out any other tasks that are required to fulfil the needs of the role. Management may add or subtract from the list of duties in order to meet the need of 168 Medical Group as they see fit and as per the terms and conditions of contract.

Please note salary is dependant on experience - subject to negotiation.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From 40,701.66 per year

Expected hours: No more than 37.5 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Free flu jabs Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Sick pay
Work Location: In person