OOHs Advanced Care Practitioner (Independent Prescriber)

To act as an autonomous practitioner working independently in Taurus Healthcare Clinical service areas to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending within primary care services and their own homes, initiating direct referrals as appropriate. Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.,

• Undertake safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills and safety netting for patients using face to face (clinic and home visits) consultations, telephony and online consultation platforms
• Demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process, with the ability to prioritise and triage the needs of patients, accordingly, instigating appropriate investigations or referrals to colleagues and other care providers
• Demonstrate highly developed clinical reasoning and decision-making
• Follow local and national guidelines and pathways, using evidenced based practice and reflection, complete significant event analyses and audits to evaluate the effectiveness of the care they provide.
• Use advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empowering them to make informed choices about their treatment
• Prevent inappropriate hospital admissions or attendances by providing/co-coordinating the provision of specialist care by other agencies for the patient in the most appropriate and agreed environment
• Work collaboratively with hospital and community colleagues ensuring patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time
• Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations including referral for x-ray
• Undertakes and interprets a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures
  
  The post holder must possess competencies and capabilities across all four pillars of advanced practice.
  
  Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
  
  Taurus Healthcare offer many employee benefits, such as:
• Access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 20.68% employer contribution.
• 25 or 30 days annual leave entitlement (plus bank holidays), including bank holidays, depending on service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme.
• Access to Vivup benefit platform