Clinical Lead

Looking for the next step in your clinical career? Are you an experienced Advanced Practitioner needing a new challenge? 

Practice Plus Group are looking for an adept Advanced Practitioner to take a dual managerial and clinical lead role in the provision of a quality service to patients attending the North West & South West London IUCS (OOH & CAS). This role will require you to practice autonomously as an Advanced Nurse/ Clinical Practitioner and also to support the local Service Managers (Registered CQC Managers) in various aspects of the IUCS managerial functions. As an integral member of the IUC London Senior Leadership Team, you will coordinate attendance and ensure viability at meetings at various levels across the NW and SW London IUC system.

A key result area will be your ability to integrate your nursing/clinical subject matter expertise seamlessly with the imperative to deliver a cost effective and heavily monitored service and become an invaluable resource to the Service Managers and Medical Leads, always balancing clinical advice with managerial issues and demands such as (e.g.) cost, spend, KPI achievement and workforce planning and operational management.

Practising as a senior and credible Nurse/Clinical Practitioner and in doing so becoming a role model for other staff, you must be able to supervise, teach, coach and mentor other healthcare professionals.

This role will be based in our Uxbridge office with regular travel to our office in Putney and London Primary Care Centre sites, there is no homeworking available for this position. 

Working days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for 6 sessions per week. 

Medicines Management

· Responsible for the oversight and management of the medicines management policies at local level.

· Collaborate with operational, medical and pharmacy leads to ensure safe pathways and processes are embedded.

· Ensure robust local processes in place, ensuring appropriate levels of medication are available and these stored appropriately.

· Liaise regularly with the Medicines Management Team to ensure processes are up to date and audits are done in a timely fashion.


Safeguarding

· Responsible for the oversight and management of the local safeguarding policies

· Engaging with the relevant ICS and Social Care Teams to establish robust local pathways

· Trained to Level 4 Safeguarding and have a sound understanding of both Child and Adult Safeguarding, providing assurance to local commissioners.

· Provision of safeguarding training and supervision to the team.

· Updating teams on local contextual safeguarding issues.

· Ensuring teams are aware of referral processes, CP-IS alerts and how to raise concerns.

· Safeguarding staff – wellbeing and resilience of your team.


Workforce and Professional Development

· Responsible for driving the recruitment of the non-medical workforce and undertaking interviews in line with the agreed competency frameworks.

· Recognising many new recruits may require personalised development plans to undertake their roles or to extend duties, agree these plans and ensure they are monitored.

· Continued mentoring and supporting professional development of the workforce to develop a supportive and nurturing working environment.

What we’ll look for in you:

1. Registered on the Nursing and Midwifery Council General Register or HCPC or Rpharms register.

2. Must hold and have experience of independent prescribing with a non-medical prescriber qualification (eg V300)

3. Up to date with revalidation.

4. Substantial post qualification practice, with recent experience in:

a. Out of Hours/Primary Care including Home Visiting

b. An Emergency Care Environment

Or…

c. An Urgent Care Centre

Or…

d. A Walk in Centre

Or….

e. A clinical environment where adults and children receive emergency, urgent and/or unscheduled care

5. Extensive and recent occupation of a supervisory, lead or similar managerial role/function

6. Completion of Advanced Clinical Practice Masters level qualification or similar accredited pathway

7. Demonstrably able to work in an interdependent manner with all other professionals and clinicians

Practice Plus Group is passionate about great healthcare. We believe that anyone should be able to access excellent care. Our breadth of expertise spans surgery, diagnostics, general practice, offender health and urgent care, with an unrivalled range of different services provided across the country. We’re proud to be at the forefront of developing new and exciting ways to support the nation’s health too, helping patients to maximise their wellbeing and live life to the full.

If you'd like to learn more, please contact Michael Shepherd on Michael.Shepherd@practiceplusgroup.com

Please note that offers of employment are subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.

Practice Plus Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.


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