Advanced Practitioner

Advanced Practitioner will play a vital role in delivering care across various

settings, including acute clinics, home visits, and care home ward rounds. They

will also contribute to person-specific models of care, such as frailty

pathways.

This

role requires the autonomous management of patients with unplanned or urgent

healthcare needs and demands significant experience in managing both long-term

conditions and complex cases.

practitioner will be instrumental in ensuring the delivery of consistent,

high-quality, person-centred care. Responsibilities include assessing

individual patient needs, formulating diagnoses, and initiating appropriate,

evidence-based interventions. A key component of the role is developing

personalised, holistic management plans tailored to each patients unique

circumstances.

Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication

styles, to ensure patients and their families are fully informed and consent to

treatment.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers,

recognizing the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome

different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of

communicating.

Anticipate barriers to communication and take

action to improve communication.

Maintain effective communication within the

practice environment and with external stakeholders.

Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues.

Ensure awareness of sources of support and

guidance for patients, relatives and work colleagues, for example the

complaints department etc. and provide information in an acceptable format,

recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.

Motivate staff to achieve personal and

departmental targets and standards.

To work as part of a wider team to ensure that

the care of people living with Frailty is based on relevant best practice

guidance including, NSFs and NICE guidance and ICB policies.

Use technology and appropriate software as an aid

to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting

and communicating information.

Review and process data using accurate SNOMED

codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring

and audit processes.

Manage information searches using the internet

and local library databases.

Understand responsibility of self and others to

the practice and primary care trust regarding the Freedom of Information Act.

Present clinical data and information to the MDT

team to agree patient pathway

Able to travel across sites and South Wirral

footprint.

Work is physically challenging and will include

physical examination of patients, lifting and handling of patients and

equipment.

Undertake a range of diagnostics including ECG

and phlebotomy and near patient testing as appropriate.

Keyboard skills; knowledge of electronic care

records and mobile working, databases, spreadsheet, email, word processing,

presentation, email,Internet,Intranet and clinical software systems

for Patient Care

Recognise and work within own competence and

professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC.

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete

records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and

procedures.

Prioritize, organise and manage own workload in a

manner that maintains and promotes quality.

Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines

and evidence-based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through

self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.

Initiate and participate in the maintenance of

quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its

activities.

Utilize the audit cycle as a means of evaluating

the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where

required.

In partnership with other clinical teams,

collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and

national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Evaluate patients response to health care

provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support and participate in shared learning across

the practice and wider organisation.

Contribute to the appraisal of the performance of

the team, providing feedback as appropriate

Understand and apply legal issues that support

the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware

of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

Clinically examine and

assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and

develop person centered and holistic plans of clinical care accordingly.

Assess, diagnosis,

plan, implement and evaluate interventions-treatments for patients with complex

needs seeking advice as appropriate.

Prescribe and review

medication within personal ability for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate

to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national

and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.

Work with patients in

order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.

Provide information and

advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens,

side-effects and interactions.

Prioritise health

problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent

or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care and

working with our multiple stakeholders to ensure best patient care, ensuring

patients receive the right care at the right time.

Support patients and

their families to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy

lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.

Assess, identify and

refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF

for Mental Health.

Healthier South Wirral consists of 5 GP practices Eastham Group

Practice, Sunlight Group Practice, The Orchard Surgery, Civic Medical Centre

and Spital Surgery.

We focus on delivering proactive, personalised, and integrated care, with services spanning acute clinics, home visits, care home ward rounds, mental health support, and prevention programmes.

Multi-disciplinary team including GPs, ACPs, paramedics, pharmacists, care coordinators, social prescribers & mental health staff

Strong focus on preventative care, including innovative work on cardiovascular disease and health inequalities

Community outreach and clinics delivered closer to patients' homes

Collaborative leadership and a culture of continuous improvement

Were proud to be a patient-centred, inclusive PCN that empowers clinicians to work at the top of their licence with the flexibility, support, and autonomy to make a real difference.

Qualifications

Essential: - Advanced Nurse Practitioner OR HCPC Registered Paramedic; - Educated to degree-diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent experience; - Driving Licence

Desirable: - Non Medical prescribing

Experience

Desirable: - Minimum 2 years post registration experience in clinical practice