ECP/Nurse - Integrated Neighbourhood Team

SS9-South PCN consists of:

• The Pall Mall Surgery [Lead Practice]
• Highlands Surgery

SS9- North PCN consists of:

• Eastwood Group Practice (Lead Practice)
• Dr Krishnan
• Leigh Surgery

• Undertake practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care.
• Assess patients with a range of conditions; take history, examine, assess risk, formulate differential diagnoses and develop, implement and evaluate treatment and management plans.
• Plan, assess and provide patient-centred treatment plans in collaboration with patients, families and carers.
• Advocate for patients and families, ensuring needs, wishes and rights are safeguarded.
• Refer patients to appropriate services and organisations, ensuring timely escalation of concerns.
• Provide follow-ups and welfare checks to assess progress and ensure safety.
• Request appropriate investigations, including pathological investigations and diagnostic imaging, according to procedures.
• Empower patients through clear explanation of assessment findings, treatment plans, investigations and options.
• Advise patients on general health, health promotion, illness prevention and self-care strategies.
• Work within licence restrictions, professional scope and boundaries of competence; acknowledge and escalate limitations when necessary.
• Attend relevant meetings and represent PACT professionally, sharing outcome data and accessing resources that support patients and reduce admission risk.
• Manage clinical caseload and provide operational oversight of workflow and activity levels relevant to the service.
• Be able to use digital and information technology systems to plan, record and audit care.
• Attend MDT meetings and relevant forums to promote the work of PACT, provide measured outcomes, advocate for resources and contribute to collaborative decision-making.
• Work collaboratively across health and social care systems to ensure patients receive appropriate coordinated care that reduces avoidable admissions.
• Contribute to service transformation, quality improvement and innovative clinical practice.

• Be a registered paramedic, with current HCPC registration and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care;
• Be a registered Nurse and have post-registration experience, ideally with some being in primary care;
  
• Be able to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients;
• Be able to evaluate patient care confidently;
• Have experience of working to protocols and guidelines;
• To exhibit excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills;
• Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively;
• Understanding of the need to work within the parameters of one's own training and capability, according to the Health and Care Professions Council;
• Experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working;
  
• Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care.
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.