Advanced Care Practitioner - Leeds, United Kingdom - Bellbrooke Surgery

Description

ADVANCED CARE PRACTITIONER Care Homes and Frailty Team JOB DESCRIPTION Role Details Job Title Advanced Care Practitioner, Care Home and Frailty Team Salary / Grade £ £58000 Hours per week 37.

5hrs Full Time (Part Time Options may be available) Reports to Dr Jo Newell, GP Partner, Bellbrooke Surgery Primary Location/ Base Bellbrooke Surgery Job Summary ACPs can be found practising across a range of fields, such as nursing, pharmacy, emergency medical services (paramedics) and adult and children's therapies


You will be:
a clinical professional who has developed their skills and theoretical knowledge to a high standard.

an experienced and educated member of the care team who can diagnose and treat health care needs or refer patients to an appropriate specialist if needed.

Trusted and empowered to make high-level clinical decisions and will often have your own caseload in this instance, primarily Care Home Patients As an ACCP, you will be expected to perform many of the tasks and take on a similar level of responsibility to trainee medical staff who have a formal regulator in the GMC.

These duties may be performed with direct, indirect, or distant supervision by a GP Lead or similar, depending on the task and situation.

You will have excellent communication skills, a compassionate and friendly nature who can operate in a busy environment with a range of people and professions, as you will be working our clinical and administration teams.

Burmantofts, Harehills and Richmond Hill Primary Care Network have chosen to deliver a centralised care homes service and in this instance this service is domiciled at Bellbrooke Surgery where the Care Home patients are registered.

Our aim is to deliver service in line with the National Care Homes DES.

We provide service to 3 care homes within our boundary covering c100 patients. Job Responsibilities CRITICAL CARE Undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of patients Requesting and performing tests to diagnose a patient's condition.

Managing episodes of patient care Leading and supporting within a team of different healthcare professionals and staff Using different sources of information to assess and manage the care of a critically ill patient.

Undertaking clinical audits PATIENT ASSESSMENT Evaluating and/or collecting information from physiological assessments, patient history, and diagnostic data to identify relevant problems:

Advanced levels of patient assessment Diagnostics and decision-making Advanced patient interventions Advanced non-medical prescribing Using clinical decision making to initiate and adjust appropriate management/treatments according to agreed protocols and clinical judgement.

Evaluating patients progress against treatment plans through interpretation of information from test results and clinical findings. PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Participate and lead in the collection and evaluation of clinical audit data. Utilise evidence-based knowledge within practice development. Support and promote an integrated approach to quality, seeking always to improve patient care.

Contribute to the clinical governance agenda within the Practice as required.

CLINICAL AND MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP You will operate with a high degree of autonomy managing relationships with Care Homes, their patients, and the practice to maximise patient care and develop the service to meet and exceed the parameters set out in the National Care Homes DES.

Delegates appropriately and encourages staff to develop and advance their skills.

Ensure the clinical team are kept informed of the progress of the role and provide opportunities for suggestions and comments to improve care delivery.

Communicates well with staff and uses different communication approaches to ensure team are conversant with relevant information. Investigates complaints and adverse incidents within own service as required and provides reports for senior Critical Care staff.

Other Job Responsibilities CONFIDENTIALITY Maintain confidentiality of information, always acting within the terms of the Data Protection Act and Caldicott guidance on patient confidentiality.

Maintain an awareness of the Freedom of Information Act.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

HEALTH & SAFETY The post-holder will manage their own and others health & safety and infection control as defined in the Practices Health & Safety Policy, the Practice Health & Safety Manual, and the Practices Infection Control Policy and published procedures.

Comply with Practice health & safety policies by following agreed safe working procedures. Actively report health & safety hazards and infection hazards immediately Keeping work and general areas clean and tidy, and using appropriate infection c