Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Come and join our lively and vibrant team! Nestled in the lovely seaside townof Morecambe, we

are an Urgent Care Centre with ahighly skilled team, who deal with all ages, ranging from babies to

the elderly. We are a high-performance teamwith complimentary talents and skills, who

consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We

pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support,

maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate

what a great service we offer!

Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Pay: £28.48 - £31.73per hour depending on experience

Hours: Up to 130 hoursper month

Base: The post willbe based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The centre delivers urgent care services between 8am 8pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year across the UTCand GP Out of Hours. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of thispost.

* Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time*

Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues

Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets all are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets

Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs

Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment / referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters

Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group whilst working autonomously

Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results

To safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis

Be able to independently undertake telephone triage

To work within the parameters of current Non-medical prescribing legislation / guidelines.

Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
• Experienced in undertaking telephone triage and remote prescribing
• Teaching and mentorship
• Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
• Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Able to…