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Location

Bournemouth, Dorset | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Title: Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Treatment Centre, Bournemouth East Primary Care Network
Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: up to full time (37.5 hours per week), Monday to Thursday and Saturdays.

Salary: Up to £25.90 per hour (In-hours), £33.67 per hour (OOH – 6.30pm-8pm and Saturdays)

Location: PCN Treatment Centre based at Shelley Manor Medical Centre, Bournemouth

Bournemouth East Collaborative Primary Care Network (PCN), situated on the stunning Dorset South Coast, comprises four like-minded practices working together in East Bournemouth, with a strong reputation on quality improvement and investing in its employees. The PCN serves a population of approximately 55,000 patients with a diverse demographic.

Practices part of the PCN are:

• Shelley Manor Medical Centre and Holdenhurst Road
• Littledown Surgery

The PCN is committed to developing, supporting and sustaining a diverse workforce, representative of the community it serves. By working together with our different Network teams, we use our combined skills to provide a service that is joined-up, holistic, proactive and personal for the patient.

We are lucky that all our practices are located close to the sea and open green spaces. With excellent transport links, schools, places of interest for the whole family and an abundance of restaurants and bars.

Our Network teams include:

• Enhanced Care Visiting team for frail housebound patients and those in care homes. The team includes visiting GPs, ANPs, Paramedic, Frailty Nurses, Care Coordinators, Clinical Pharmacist.
• BEC Urgent Care Treatment Centre working out of the Treatment Centre at Shelley Manor Medical Centre supported by GPs, ANP’s, Respiratory Nurse and HCA’s.
• First Contact Physiotherapy Practitioner service.
• Digital Lead, Digital Care Coordinator, Digital Champions.
• Pharmacy team comprising of Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Care Co-ordinator.
• Health & Wellbeing Coaches and Social Prescribers within Help & Care team.

The Role

Bournemouth East Collaborative Primary Care Network (BEC PCN) has a new and exciting opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join the BEC Treatment Centre Team .

We are looking for Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work in hours and out of hours service at the PCN Treatment Centre. The service runs Monday to Thursday 4:00pm to 8:00pm, plus Saturdays 9:00am to 5:00pm.

This role will require an Enhanced DBS Clearance . Should you have this certificate as part of the DBS subscription service, we would be happy to accept this providing the original is shown. Otherwise, you will be expected to complete a new application.

Job Summary:

The Treatment Centre is based at Shelley Manor Medical Centre, comprising of multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals working towards a vision of providing integrated care for all our patients and improving access.

Advanced Clinical Practitioners will be expected to provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to same day face to face appointments. If appropriate prescribe and refer patients to appropriate care providers, within locally agreed PCN healthcare pathways and complete 2 week waits if required.

Main duties of the job

Autonomously manage own appointment list of patients across the age continuum to provide whole episode of healthcare by seeing, assessing, diagnosing, treating and discharging or referring patients attending the Treatment Centre across a wide range of undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions including minor injuries and minor ailments.

Able to use an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgement for seeing treating and assessing patients who present with a broad range of situations and conditions.

You will have an advanced practice qualification and be a non-medical prescriber.

Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary PCN team, delegating and referring as appropriate, to optimise health outcomes for patients.

Work autonomously, clinically examining and assessing patients and initiating any appropriate action whilst taking responsibility for managing practice whilst using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgment for highly complex decision making across a broad range of situations.

Have a level of understanding of PCN and NHS values, policies and procedures.

What we need from you

• Professional registration with relevant professional body.
• Recognised Advanced Clinical Practice course (or working towards) – MSc or Advanced Practice Digital badge.
• Non-medical prescriber.
• Ability to see and treat a wide range of minor injury and illness presentations.
• To take a full comprehensive history, clinically physically examine and treat within level of own competence.
• Willing to learn clinical new skills to enhance practice.
• Evidence of on-going CPD.
• Interpretation of X-rays.
• Understanding of the Primary Care Network.
• Additional skills of assessing elderly care.
• Teaching and developing staff.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information/results from patient assessment
• Takes responsibility for providing care and treatment in line with current evidence base practice at an advanced clinical practice level.
• Demonstrates the ability to make critical judgements and utilise problem-solving skills, regarding patient care, on a daily basis.
• Initiates and carries out highly complex patient assessment, analyses and interprets results, using highly developed advanced knowledge and skills that includes Comprehensive patient history taking, physical examination and understanding self-competences when interpreting range of tests and or investigations.
• Independently prescribes a range of medications, as agreed at PCN level, based on self-competencies, efficacy, safety and cost.
• Discusses and agrees assessment outcomes with patients, carers and other health professionals, to enable them to make informed decisions regarding treatment and care, and initiates appropriate, timely consultation and/or referral, when more expert input is required.
• To comply fully with Infection Prevention and Control Policies.

Aptitudes and Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, using a range of methods, e.g. verbal, written, record keeping.
• Maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of the patient and their relatives.
• To be competent to deal calmly and professionally with patients, relatives and work colleagues in a confidential and sensitive manner.
• Able to work autonomously whilst using clinical decision-making skills at an advanced level.
• Demonstrable ability to work in a busy environment and cope when the service is under pressure.
• Takes pride in their work and have a strong sense of personal and team accountability.
• Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
• Good organisational skills.
• To be flexible and multi skilled to ensure the priorities of the PCN can be met.
• Computer literacy with a range of software, databases, spread sheets.
• Has an understanding of SystmOne.
• Is able to complete task, two week wait referrals and templates.
• Seeks out, and takes, opportunities for improving the service offered, with customer focus in foresight.

Experience

• Has previous experience working at an advanced level in primary care, urgent care or emergency care.
• Evidence of working at an Advanced level.
• Experience of managing a range of primary/urgent care conditions for adult and paediatric patients. Demonstrates a willingness to do telephone triage.
• Reflect on own practice and direct own learning.
• Previously worked as part of an integrated team

Personal Qualities

• Self-motivation and reliability.
• Professional role model for advanced clinical practice.
• Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Professional and empathetic manner.
• Ability to deal with distressing, unpleasant circumstances and difficult issues.
• Standard computer and key board skills.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website ( opens in a new window ).

Equality & Diversity
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity, taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.

The PCN is a friendly, flexible, forward thinking and a supportive Network.

We can we offer you in return?

Our PCN reflects the NHS values of working together for our patients and the communities we serve; we will support you with a robust induction programme to help you achieve your full potential and highlight areas of training to ensure good progression.

We highly value a teamworking ethos and strongly promote a culture of support and development for our staff. We will provide a GP and ANP Clinical Leads who are there to provide clinical support to you in your advanced practice role.

All our mandatory learning opportunities are free to all employees, and many can be used towards revalidation for those with a professional qualification.

You will have the option to work flexibly, enabling you to better achieve a genuine balance between your work life and your personal life and a competitive salary and opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.

Other Benefits include:

• Working with a friendly, encouraging, and supportive team
• Up to 30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Free parking on site
• Access to health service discounts online (Blue Light Card), where well-known brands offer discounts to NHS employees.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free flu jabs
• Enhanced sick pay (after qualifying period)
• Dedicated support for health and wellbeing for all PCN staff
• Staff friendly policies to support work-life balance.
• Cycle to work scheme (after successful probationary period)
• Staff events/functions

Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the role will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, marriage or civil partnership status, gender, gender expression or gender identity, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Immigration Act 2016

All applicants will be asked to provide the required documented evidence of eligibility to live and work in the UK. In completing this application, you are giving Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN permission to contact the Home Office/UKBA to establish your immigration status and eligibility to work at Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN.

In completing this application, you are giving Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN permission to contact the Home Office/UKBA to establish your immigration status and eligibility to work at Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN.

Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN is not a Tier Sponsor.

Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN reserves the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

This vacancy may close early should we receive sufficient applications.

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