Advanced Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £39.63 i £43.51 yr awr |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £39.63 - £43.51 an hour |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Truro, TR1 3LP |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | E0306-26-0011 |
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My role helps deliver patient care by The Advanced Practitioner (AP) is a frontline clinical role within Cornwalls Integrated Urgent Care Services, responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across a variety of urgent and non-urgent settings. Operating both remotely and face-to-face, the practitioner undertakes advanced clinical assessments, diagnoses, and treatments for patients presenting with acute, chronic, or undifferentiated conditions. The APs are empowered to prescribe medications, initiate investigations, and escalate care when necessary, ensuring timely and effective interventions. In addition to clinical duties, the AP contributes to service development, quality governance, and safeguarding, while supporting integrated care pathways in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. They are expected to step up as Clinical Shift Supervisor when required, providing leadership and operational oversight to maintain safe and efficient service delivery. The role also includes mentoring colleagues, promoting continuous learning, and engaging in audit and research activities to uphold evidence-based practice. This position is essential to the resilience and responsiveness of Cornwalls urgent care system. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Conduct advanced clinical assessments, diagnoses, and treatment planning: Utilise enhanced clinical reasoning to manage patients with complex, undifferentiated, or multi-morbid presentations. Deliver care via telephone, video, face-to-face consultations, and home visits: Ensure flexible access to urgent care services, adapting approach to suit patient needs and settings. Prescribe medications and manage patients using clinical guidance: Apply safe prescribing practices to initiate or adjust treatment plans in line with current best practice. Rapidly identify and escalate deteriorating patients, initiating emergency intervention: Use clinical judgement to recognise red flags and coordinate timely escalation to emergency services. Step up as Clinical Shift Supervisor when required: Provide leadership and oversight during shifts, ensuring safe staffing, clinical governance, and operational continuity. Act as Daytime Lead Advanced Practitioner to support service coordination: Lead clinical decision-making and act as a point of escalation for complex cases during daytime operations. Manage Single Point of Access (SPOA) calls during clinical service: Triage incoming referrals, prioritise cases, and direct patients to appropriate care pathways efficiently. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated care: Work closely with GPs, nurses, social care, and other professionals to ensure joined-up patient management. Support safeguarding processes for vulnerable adults and children: Recognise signs of abuse or neglect and follow statutory procedures to protect patients at risk. Participate in clinical audits, research, and service development: Contribute to continuous improvement by evaluating outcomes and implementing evidence-based changes. Mentor and support colleagues, fostering a learning culture: Share expertise, supervise junior staff, and promote professional development across Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records: Document clinical encounters in line with legal, regulatory, and organisational standards. Contribute to quality governance, risk management, and infection control: Uphold safety standards and participate in initiatives to improve clinical quality and reduce risk. Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and professionals: Use clear, compassionate communication tailored to individual needs, including those with barriers to understanding. Demonstrate leadership in planning and implementing service improvements: Take initiative in developing protocols, improving workflows, and supporting workforce planning. You will be expected to carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with your main duties, as directed by your line manager. We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life, and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience, and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.