Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Reference: HW-2108

Ombersley Medical Centre are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dynamic and forward thinking team in beautiful rural Worcestershire. 

We aim to provide high quality, personalized, patient centered care in a safe and effective setting. We ensure patients are involved at all points of their journey and strive to improve the health status of those we care for. 

The ACP is a new role to our practice and will work alongside the Duty Doctor caring for patients who present with acute illnesses as well as some chronic disease management in a mix of face to face and telephone appointments. The team at Ombersley Medical Centre are encouraged to develop and progress, with supportive, organised and innovative thinking for our team as well as our patients. 

The practice team hold regular meetings with opportunities for learning and discussion, deliver a wide MDT approach to patient care and offer a variety of enhanced services to our community. 

Ombersley Medical Centre is a thriving and high achieving practice located in the heart of the Village. Our practice team is well established and committed to providing excellent care to our community. 

Working in general practice is busy, and we are keen to ensure that our team experience a positive work life balance alongside working in a rewarding and patient-focused practice.

We have just over 7,000 patients and are a GP training practice hosting registrars and students from local universities. 

 

The following are the core responsibilities of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

 There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

1. Practice in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information

3. Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change

4. Work in partnership with individuals, families and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate

5. Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make a positive change

6. Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning

7. Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care

8. Exercise professional judgement to manage risk

9. Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice

10. Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients

11. Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patient’s health

12. Be a professional role model for the organisation

13. Actively engage in peer review to inform own and other’s practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements

14. Actively seek feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements

15. Critically assess and address own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research).

16. Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required

17. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation and to ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively

18. Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation and audit, using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others

 s. Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies

20. Support the team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies

21. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately

22. Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate