Minor Illness Practitioner Bank

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Full time
Location: Frimley
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Job offered by: NHS
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To provide face to face minor illness management, working aspart of a multi-disciplinary team providing urgent, on the day (Same Day UrgentCare) to the registered patients of the GP Practices in Surrey Heath. To provide highly skilled evidence based nursing / AHPservices to patients as an essential part of the health care provided by the GPFederation and the local member GP Practices. To support the Federation / PCN to establish innovativesolutions to provide flexible additional nursing / AHP support to GP Practicesin Surrey Heath. To support the development and delivery of policy andprocedures, and providing clinical leadership to appropriate others asrequired. The role requires you to function autonomously and withinyour sphere of competency whilst being assisted and supervised by our Advanced ClinicalPractitioners (ACPs) and GPs. Main duties of the job

Todemonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, includingassessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice. Toparticipate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minorillness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (where this iswithin the scope of practice, competence and confidence). Todischarge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals/ external agencies. Toprovide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and levelof health care needs, according to their level of competency and code ofconduct. Towork closely with the wider urgent care teams in delivering high qualitypatient centred clinical care. Tosupport the triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triageand streaming decision making when required. Toparticipate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting tosee the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner). Towork in partnership with patients and their carers to assess individual healthneeds, plan appropriate care and use every appropriate opportunity to promotehealth and reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease. Tobe capable and confident in digital consultation where this is required. Towork as an autonomous practitioner within appropriate clinical and professionalguidelines. About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited,which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a populationof over 97,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employaround 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary CareNetwork in Surrey Heath. As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, weare proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care byworking with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of communitybased healthcare services. We arededicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across ourrange of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuouscommitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes. Patients are at theheart of everything we do,

and we pride ourselves in

ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with andrespected , at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Ourvision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people tolead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for. Job responsibilities

Please see Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsabilities and Person Specification. Person Specification

Qualifications

Registered healthcare professional with the NMC or HCPC. Relevant professional/health degree. Mentor/teaching qualification. Clinical supervision training and experience. Post-registration qualification and ongoing CPD in minor illness management. Community or Primary Care specialist qualification. Care of the elderly specialist qualification. Additional qualification in a specific long term condition. Skills

Phlebotomy. Strong clinical practice skills, management of patients with long-term conditions. Health checks in Primary Care. Management of patients with complex needs. Strong clinical leadership. Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Negotiation and conflict management. Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting. Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision. Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation. Clinical examination skills. Nurse/AHP-led triage and management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries. Change management / Service improvement. Experience

Significant post registration experience. Current or very recent primary and community experience. Developing protocols and clinical guidelines. Nurse / AHP Leadership. Audit. Project management. Working with community development initiatives. Health-needs assessment. Other

Self-directed practitioner. Highly motivated and enthusiastic. Flexibility. Team player. Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses. Commitment to CPD. Access to suitable transport in relation to the post. Knowledge

Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse/AHP-led service. Able to demonstrate CPD in relevant area, e.g. Cervical Screening, Respiratory LTC management. Local and national health policy. Wider health economy. Clinical governance issues in primary care. Patient group directions and associated policy. Able to identify determinants on health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. £25.60 to £28 an hourDepending on experience, plus 12.07% AL and Saturday enhancement

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