Advanced Clinical Practitioner / Emergency Care Practitioner

Overview

Colchester Medical Practice is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries. This position is offered on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• Be practicing autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated specialty area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• Support new ways of working that emphasise a more efficient and patient-focused service, ensuring the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• Take responsibility for leading the ongoing development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to masters level, they will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

About Colchester Medical Practice

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN, delivering excellent care to over 41,000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery, Castle Gardens Medical Practice, Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new health and wellbeing hub, based at our Parsons Heath site. The practice is well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester. NHS pension scheme.

Benefits

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