Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) – Highbridge Medical Centre
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Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)
Location: Highbridge Medical Centre
Hours: Up to 37.5 hours
Salary: Upwards of £53,000 per annum, depending on knowledge, skills and experience
To support our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team at Highbridge Medical Centre, which is part of Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS), the largest at-scale provider of primary care services in Somerset, supporting 20 practices across Somerset (including one in Devon) and providing care for 120,000 patients. By working at scale we can offer you the opportunity to develop specialist skills with the support of a larger organisation to develop your career.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be expected to assess all patients and provide the right management or referral. You will be reliable and dependable, passionate and committed to delivering high quality health care in a primary care environment. You will be willing to contribute to the processing of administration tasks including and not limited to signing repeat prescriptions, laboratory results and clinical letters from other providers.
Our practice has an established MDT management team and we can support you as an ACP to lead on key areas of service according to your specialist areas of interest. As a practice we are developing a strong ACP workforce who are encouraged to be involved in digital transformation, clinical research and are supported to lead quality improvement initiatives.
If you hold a non-medical prescriber qualification and would like to join our professional and multi-disciplinary practice team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), then we would love to hear from you.
About Symphony Healthcare Services
Symphony Healthcare Services was established in 2016 as part of the award-winning Symphony Programme Vanguard, developing new models of care. We now support 20 practices across Somerset (including one in Devon) providing care for 120,000 patients.
Symphony has developed a model where each practice is encouraged to operate autonomously, but as a subsidiary of Yeovil Hospital and with the backing and economies of scale from a central support team (particularly for HR and strategic management matters).
Providing NHS services is at the heart of what we do. Our vision is to ensure that primary care is sustainable for patients and practices in Somerset, and we aim to be a national exemplar for primary care provision. We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop and transform patient care and working practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do. We also work hard to make sure primary care has a loud voice in Somerset.
Highbridge - Our Practice & Town
Highbridge Medical Centre is a large, well established practice with an on-site pharmacy. Our integrated, multidisciplinary team includes GPs, nurse practitioners and ECPs and provides a wide range of services to around 12,000 patients.
We can offer the best of both worlds – a friendly practice in a market town location, yet with the support of a network of practices behind you so you can concentrate on patient care. Intrigued? Please read on…
Our transport links are great - The M5, Bristol Airport and train routes to London mean that Highbridge is very conveniently located.
Highbridge is a charming town based on the edge of the Somerset Levels. The area is surrounded by sandy coast with Burnham-on- Sea and its iconic lighthouse a stone’s throw, and sandwiched between the Mendip Hills and Quantocks for exploring, horse-riding and mountain biking. Highbridge is a bustling town with a number of eateries, restaurants, and shops.
https://www.visitsomerset.co.uk/discover-somerset/towns-villages/north-west-somerset/highbridge
Main duties of the job
Job responsibilities
You will work as an advanced, autonomous practitioner using a high level of decision making. Your primary focus will be the provision of excellent patient centred care, encompassing the skills of face to face clinical assessment, examination, clinical diagnosis and the development and delivery of effective urgent treatment for patients of all ages with undifferentiated, undiagnosed primary/ urgent health care problems of full general practice patient needs including paediatrics, care of elderly and mental health.
This role works within the parameters of current prescribing legislation.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary and required to deliver face to face consultations from the practice or within patients own homes when required.
This role is particularly suited to an autonomous Clinician that has undertaken core modules within the Specialist Paramedic, Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner program or an experienced Nurse/Paramedic who has additional training in assessing minor illness and is a non-medical prescriber.
You will receive a full induction and be supported by our Clinical Lead.
The successful candidate will:
- be an experienced practitioner acting within their professional boundary to provide care for the presenting patient. This role is expected to develop and evolve over time as the successful post holder gains further experience within the primary care setting.
- be flexible and undertake any necessary additional training required to meet the service needs.
- work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to advise on treatment and healthcare for patients, to include those presenting in the primary care setting and those in the community.
- attend home visits to include residential and nursing homes, where they will liaise with staff, family and other stakeholders in the production of care plans to be shared with other providers, as appropriate.
- assess and treat acute and chronically unwell patients presenting in the surgery environment.
Benefits
- Salary upwards of £53,000 per annum, depending on knowledge, skills and experience
- 25 days annual leave, increasing to 26 after 5 years’ service
- Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
- Free 24/7 independent counselling service
- learning and Development Opportunities
- flexible working options
- car lease and cycle to work schemes
- ability to join our own locum service, Symphony Flex, with extremely competitive rates of pay
- centralised hubs for Workflow and Medicines Management
- Tier 2 Visa sponsorship available.
