Advanced Clinical Practitioner - GP Out of Hours Service

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Healthcare professional to work as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with a range of acute illness presentations. You will be responsible for telephone triage, base visits and home visiting. The shifts will be weekday, evenings, weekends and overnight.

The role will include leadership support overnight for visiting practitioners as a line manager ensuring training, HR issues, sickness management and 1:1 are completed.

The GP OOH is open Monday – Thursday 18.30-08.00 and Friday 18.30 – Monday 08.00.

We have 6 bases including Banbury, Oxford, Abingdon and Witney and you could be allocated shifts to any of these bases to support care delivery.

The successful candidate will have a strong clinical background in primary care, excellent communication skills, and a passion for providing exceptional patient care.

Main duties of the job

• To work within the GP Ooh service working in base, home visiting and telephone triage managing acute illness presentations.
• Act as a clinical expert taking a lead role in advancing the development of clinical practice.
• The post holder will provide holistic patient care within a variety of settings, inclusive of the patient’s residence and care settings within the community, from assessment of presentingcondition through to diagnosis, initial treatment and discharge, including the administration of medication within agreed clinical guidelines and protocols.
• Support embedding research and quality improvement in the GP OOH service
• Supervision of staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.