Job Description

Job Summary:

The Urgent Care Practitioner will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face-to-face, telephone consultations and home visits.

The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The UCP will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients, accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigation in the appropriate manner.

The post holder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified NP/UCP in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referrals, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

Job Responsibilities:

Clinical Practice:

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality care

Carries out clinical practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements and knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care

Delivery of care in line with practice policies, NICE guidelines and evidence based care

Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as appropriate

Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved

Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice

Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan

Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols eg: X-ray, blood tests, scans, etc

Assess, diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who require medical attention and/or refer to the appropriate agency

Refer patients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other organisation as necessary

To undertake minor ops, joint injections and Coils/Family planning, dependent on qualifications and update training as required

Administration and professional responsibilities:

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team

Accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patient's notes

Ensure clinical system is kept up-to-date, recording accurate details

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice

Attend and participate in practice meetings as required

This list is not exhaustive - a full job description will be given if shortlisted.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 50,000.00-60,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 18 - 37 per week

Benefits:

Company pension
Experience:

Nurse Practitioner or Acute Care Practitioner: 2 years (required)
Licence/Certification:

Professional body certificate such as NMC (required) Prescribing Certificate (required)
Work Location: In person