Community Specialist Practitioner Single Point of Access

• Provide remote urgent assessment, treatment, and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service users.
• Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
• Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway, such as specialist services.
• Provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are complex and frail, with long term conditions who may present with urgent care needs.
• Provide robust clinical leadership to ensure high quality harm free care.
• To promote and champion use of digital technology in remote clinical assessment and decision making.
• Work collaboratively with the other CSPs
• Be responsible for the provision of relevant clinical training within the team which may include
• Supporting team performance in key identified areas including frailty and the assessment and management of long term conditions.
• Support the development of advanced clinical practice within the team through the provision of education and clinical supervision.
• Facilitate local and organisational audits, clinical investigations and RCAs relevant to clinical practice.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner, actively using and promoting shared decision making and empowerment of service users, ensuring they have comprehensive, individualised care plans.

Essential

• Expert knowledge of complex case management
• Developed skills and experience of managing service users with long term conditions and urgent care needs
• Experience of using clinical examination and diagnostic reasoning skills
• Experience in a relevant primary care, community or secondary care setting.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and shared decision making.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex clinical information.
• Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to improve care, including challenging service delivery and provision.
• Experience of managing and leading people.

Desirable

• Experience of remote assessment
• Experience of clinical risk assessment

Essential

• Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L7 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and the commitment to undertake level 7 masters academic learning that supports the skillset required for this role.
• Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications.
• Willingness to undertake training required for the role.

Desirable

• Post registration module at master's level.
• Coaching / Teaching and Assessing qualification / experience.
• Understanding of the primary care, secondary care and provider interface.
• Knowledge of legal issues relating to the care of people such as Data Protection Act, Adult Protection procedures and the Mental Capacity Act