Urgent Treatment Centre Advanced Clinical Practitioner
This role involves working as an experienced healthcare professional with leadership skills in caring for patients with a range of urgent health problems. The post holder will work autonomously to maintain and develop their own advanced clinical assessment skills, diagnostic skills, and understanding of investigations.
The key responsibilities include independently assessing, differentially diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized treatment plans for patients, resulting in safe appropriate management, referral or discharge without direct medical support on site.
The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated and experienced practitioner with a broad and advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology, including invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
* Provide high-quality clinical care to patients with urgent health problems.
* Work autonomously to maintain and develop advanced clinical assessment skills, diagnostic skills, and understanding of investigations.
* Prescribe independently (where legally permitted) within the scope of competence and within the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Competency Framework, national, and locally adapted guidelines, and best available evidence.
* Manage complete episodes of care and prioritize workload effectively.
The successful candidate will also have the ability to take a full systematic focused history, make a diagnosis based on interpretation of imaging and pathology results, and have the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge.
Essential Skills:
• Ability to work autonomously and manage complex patient cases.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• High level of clinical knowledge and expertise in acute care.
• Ability to prescribe independently (where legally permitted).
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.