Advanced Clinical Practitioner

We are a friendly, supportive, and forward-thinking GP training practice seeking to recruit a committed Advance Clinical Practitioner to join our well-established multidisciplinary team. A large practice, with four premises, almost 23500 patient population, GP partners committed to provide highest quality care to patients and reduce health inequalities, and an experience senior management team with a strong focus on innovation, Kensington Partnership is highly active in adopting advances in technology to enhance patient care and improve ways of working.

We are equally committed to the ongoing development and wellbeing of our staff, offering a supportive learning environment with opportunities for professional growth. This role provides an excellent opportunity to work collaboratively within a diverse and experienced team, delivering high-quality care to a diverse patient population while undertaking the full range of general practice duties and responsibilities within primary care.

You will be joining the partnership at a very exciting time when we are actively seeking to expand our healthcare team, build our list and embed new digital technologies to improve access, experience and outcomes of care.

The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care,which may include highly complex presentations. This will be demonstrated through defined competencies and in line with practice policy and or guidance.

To practice as an Advanced Practitioner within their sphere of competence and any agreed acceptable limits of practice. An ACP uses expert knowledge and complex decision-making in unpredictable situations (including patients with undiagnosed health care problems) and makes a differential diagnosis using a range of competencies. This includes assessing patients, ordering and interpreting investigations, diagnosing and treating patients.

• To provide first point of contact direct access for patients of all ages with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems seeking primary health care, including on-call, telephone triage, face-to-face consultations, home visits, including nursing/care home residents.
• To assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health care needs and manage a caseload for treating, referring, admitting, discharging patients as appropriate.
• To make judgments involving complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of options, which could be complex and where expert opinion may differ or not all information is available.
• To order investigations, follow up results, and arrange appropriate management, including seeking advice.

• Friendly, stable and supportive clinical team
• Dedicated team of advanced care practitioners, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, first contact physiotherapists and social prescribers
• A strong, supportive highly experienced nursing team
• Highly skilled secretarial and administrative team
• Protected time for clinical meetings
• High level of patient engagement and continuity of care
• GP partners with special interest in Diabetes, Womens Health, Paediatric, Dermatology, Minor surgery and anticoagulation services.
• Learning and development
• Supportive management structure

• To be an expert clinical practitioner, who ensures patients receive high quality clinical care including medical diagnosis.
• To be a motivated, dynamic practitioner, striving for improvement in care and practice.
• To monitor quality and continuity of patient care, actively participate in clinical audit, taking action to address improvements required.
• To ensure care is based and planned on an individual assessment for a positive patient experience.
• To ensure effective treatment planning and health promotion is carried out.
• To ensure accurate documentation of all care given.
• To communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues.
  
  To be accountable for quality governance within own area of practice.
• To exercise authority and accountability within their sphere of influence.
• To act as a role model and expert clinician, providing support and guidance to all staff delivering care to patients.
• To represent the team and role within the practice and elsewhere as requested, promoting the organisation through local and national activity.
• To access patients at point of entry into health care system with undifferentiated undiagnosed problems.
• To take responsibility for making autonomous decisions in relation to patient care.
• Using advanced assessment skills of history taking and clinical examination, make a diagnosis and initiate an appropriate care plan including necessary tests or referral.
• To promote health and screening in relation to primary prevention.
• Gain an understanding of chronic disease management, develop competence in this area and access training.
• To prescribe within parameters according to prescribing authority for extended and supplementary prescribing.
• To participate in the…