Advanced Practitioner AP

Advanced Practitioner (L1)

Based: Mereside Medical Practices (Staploe Medical Centre, Cathedral Medical Centre, Haddenham Surgery)

Basis: Permanent,full-timeor part-time

Salary: £45,055 – £51,560 FTE

Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

Mereside Medical is a flourishing group of three East Cambridgeshire practices in Ely, Haddenham and Soham, together serving c.45,000 patients. As a group,we’vegrown rapidly and now employ more than 170 people across the three practices. We are people-centred in our approach to work and believe that every contact that a patient has with our staff is as valuable as the next in the patient journey.

We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of well-being in our community. We are innovative and forward-looking, and we embrace technology to enable more effective, efficient, and connected ways of working to deliver ever better outcomes for our patients.

Our goal is to deliver on the ambitions laid out in the NHS
10 year

Health

Planfor England in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and satisfying for our staff. In addition to our core general practice work we run a large clinical research trialsunitand we work closely with the ICB to develop innovative ways to improve local service provision. We are the lead practice for one of the two local PCNs and are represented in both.

We are proud to be the host organisation for the NIHR Greater Cambridge & Suffolk Commercial Research Delivery Centre (Primary Care), one of only 14 in England. This prestigious designation recognises our commitment to accelerating commercial clinical research delivery for health and economic benefit across our region.

Reporting to the Advanced Practitioner Lead Manager, you will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients presenting on the day with urgent care needs, and supporting patients with long-term conditions.

• Practice in compliance with your respective code of professional conduct and scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of your level of responsibility and autonomy, and the limits of your own competence and scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information

• Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change

• Actively contribute to implementing the quality governance systems and processes across the organisation, demonstrating receptiveness to challenge and learn, and preparedness to constructively challenge others, in doing so. This includes but is not limited to healthcare records, learning points, and significant events

• Adopt a solutions and improvement mindset to proactively assess the effectiveness of your care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.

• Participate in and undertake triage of urgent care requests to ensure the smooth progress of patients through the system on a daily basis.

• Work in partnership with patients, families and carers (including care homes), using a range of assessment methods, your expertise, and your clinical reasoning to adopt an evidence-based approach compliant with NICE guidelines to:

• Assess, examine, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate holistic treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis

• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of emergency care

• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate)

• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic…