Band 7 Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

The Clinical Practitioner in Urgent Community Response will act as a generalist ‘expert’ and exercise their clinical expertise in the long-term conditions (LTC’s) including frailty, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care to deliver the Urgent Community Response Model

Main duties of the job

• Work closely with wider multi-disciplinary workforce in primary, community and secondary care, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care in the right setting. Work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations and initiating        appropriate holistic, best evidenced based treatment with the development of a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing. Ensure the patient is placed at the center of all decisions, reinforcing the       concept of a  streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery.  Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDR’s.

• Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.

• Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.

• Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.
• Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits

• Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.
• Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.