Minor Illness Practitioner

To provide face to face minor illness management, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing urgent, on the day (Same Day Urgent Care) to the registered patients of the GP Practices in Surrey Heath. To provide highly skilled evidence based nursing / AHP services to patients as an essential part of the health care provided by the GP Federation and the local member GP Practices. To support the Federation / PCN to establish innovative solutions to provide flexible additional nursing / AHP support to GP Practices in Surrey Heath. To support the development and delivery of policy and procedures, and providing clinical leadership to appropriate others as required. The role requires you to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency whilst being assisted and supervised by our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and GPs.,

• To demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice.
• To participate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (where this is within the scope of practice, competence and confidence).
• To discharge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals / external agencies.
• To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and level of health care needs, according to their level of competency and code of conduct.
• To work closely with the wider urgent care teams in delivering high quality patient centred clinical care.
• To support the triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triage and streaming decision making when required.
• To participate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting to see the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner).
• To work in partnership with patients and their carers to assess individual health needs, plan appropriate care and use every appropriate opportunity to promote health and reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease.
• To be capable and confident in digital consultation where this is required.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within appropriate clinical and professional guidelines.
  
  We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 97,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary Care Network in Surrey Heath.
As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes. Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Depending on experience £25.60 to £28.00 an hour, plus Saturday enhancement