Advanced Clinical Practitioner (34 hrs/week) – Holmhurst Medical Centre
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We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated ACP to join our team. Located in a purpose built modern building with a pharmacy on site, we are situated on the edge of the Surrey countryside, with great local schools and easy access to London and the coast.
- Member of a PCN and Dorking Healthcare Federation
- 3 partner GMS practice with an increasing list size (currently 10,200 patients)
- Training practice
- CQC rated ‘Good’
- Consistently high QoF achievement
- Multidisciplinary team committed to our local community with Midwife and District Nurse support, IAPT as well as onsite consultant clinics
- Supported by excellent nursing and administration teams
- Active practice providing a large range of services including minor ops and offsite clinics in a school and nursing home
- SystmOne clinical system
- Modern, purpose built surgery premises
- On-site car and bicycle parking
- Weekly practice meetings, weekly MDT meetings
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We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our team. The post holders main responsibility will be to work within the clinical team to provide high quality patient care. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will use specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare independently to patients. This will include telephone triage, face-to-face consultations, care home visits and home visits.
To apply for this role, you must be a qualified prescriber, have strong verbal and non-verbal communication skills. For more information or to apply for the post contact Aysha.ahmad1@nhs.net
Job summary:
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will be required to work autonomously in delivering independent assessment, clinical examination, diagnosis, clinical decision making and planning of care and treatment & prescribing.
Clinical responsibilities:
- Be responsible for the assessment of health and clinical needs of patients, undertaking consultations as an autonomous practitioner, using their advanced clinical practice skills, and own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat, prescribe and refer.
- Be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge.
- Be included in the Duty GP rota as required by practice needs and the clinical role.
- Maintain a high standard of patient focused care in accordance with practice’s guidelines and policies.
- Enable the clinical team to work effectively and provide a high quality service to patients and to work effectively with other agencies.
- Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and capture any learning from these experiences to improve patient care and delivery.
- Already working as in Band 7 ACP or having achieved the relevant qualifications and with a nursing or paramedic background ,must be a Level 7 Independent Prescriber.
- The salary for this position is Band 7.
Qualifications :
- At least 1 year of nursing
- Valid NMC or HCPC
- Valid Imer certification
- 2 years of paramedic
- PG Certification
