1. Job Details
Job Title: Prescribing Minor Illness Practitioner
Responsible to: Practice Manager
Professionally responsible to: Partners
Maintain registration with professional body working within the Code of Professional Conduct.
Hours: 30-37.5 hours per week
Pay: Salary competitive depending on experience
Location: Wooda Surgery
Training
· To participate in all training and supervision requirements outlined by the practice.
· To meet the requirements of Prescribing Frameworks.
· Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong learning and is accountable for managing own CPD, maintaining professional registration requirements, and ensuring ongoing clinical competence.
2. Job Purpose
To provide safe, effective, and patient-centred clinical care within a Primary Care setting. The post holder will assess, diagnose, treat, prescribe and appropriately refer patients presenting with a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions.
The role includes wound care management, diagnostic assessment and interpretation, infection prevention and control adherence, and independent clinical practice working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcome
Diabetes and Respiratory disease management with opportunities for further development in these areas supported by the practice.
3. Dimensions
Responsible to Treatment Room manager, Practice Manager and GP Partners.
4 . Main Tasks/Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Clinical Responsibilities:
· Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments of patients presenting with acute and undifferentiated conditions.
· Diagnose, treat and manage patients within own scope of professional practice.
· Independently prescribe medications in accordance with national and local prescribing guidelines.
· Order and interpret diagnostic tests and investigations.
· Develop management plans and provide health education and self-management support.
· Identify when referral to another healthcare professional or service is appropriate.
· Assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients presenting with minor injuries and acute wound care needs within own scope of practice and clinical competence.
· Undertake wound assessment, dressing selection, wound management planning and ongoing review in line with local and national clinical guidance.
· Support the nursing team in the delivery of childhood immunisation programmes, including undertaking immunisations where appropriately trained and competent to do so
· Support the provision of cervical screening services and undertake cervical cytology sampling where appropriately trained, competent and compliant with national cervical screening programme requirements where appropriate.
· Provide face-to-face, telephone and remote consultations as required.
· Undertake home visits where clinically appropriate.
· Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records using the practice clinical system.
· Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including non-drug-based treatment methods using a management plan, in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
· Support medicines optimisation initiatives.
· Support development of programmes to improve health and well-being and meet the specific needs of communities, groups, and individuals.
· Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
· Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
Supervision
Support the team (Practice Nurses and HCAs) with the day-to-day delivery of treatment room services, including wound care management, infection prevention activities, chronic disease monitoring and health promotion initiatives
Confidentiality:
· In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carer’s, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential in adherence to practice policies.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will manage their own health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
· Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
· Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
· Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
· Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
· Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
· Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance performance.
· Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs.
· Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
· Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and service development activities.
· Maintain professional registration and fulfil continuing professional development requirements.
· Contribute to safeguarding processes and multidisciplinary team discussions as required.
· Work in accordance with practice policies, clinical governance requirements and professional standards.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
· Work collaboratively with GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, HCAs, Paramedics and administrative teams.
· Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
· Contribute to practice meetings and clinical discussions.
· Support the development of innovative services to meet patient need.
· Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
This is not a complete and final statement of duties and responsibilities and may be subject to review and amendment in the light of changing needs of the practice.
Note:
In order to protect patients, the law specifically permits Health Authorities to obtain relevant information about an applicant’s previous criminal convictions (if any). You are therefore asked to reveal all such convictions which you consider relevant to the applicant’s suitability for this post. Any such information will be treated in the strictest confidence
5. Hours of work
Extra hours of work:
Staff will be required to work additional hours to provide cover for annual leave, occasional study leave and unexpected absences. Extra cover is paid at the normal hourly rate or taken as TOIL.
Attendance at meetings and training sessions held throughout the year will be paid at your normal hourly rate if held outside your working hours.
Weekends:
Staff are expected to participate in the practice's seasonal vaccination programmes, including weekend Flu and COVID vaccination clinics, on a rotational basis as required by service need. Attendance at these clinics will be remunerated at time and a half (1.5x) the normal hourly rate.
Staff are also expected to support the delivery of Extended Access services on a rotational basis. Hours worked during Extended Access sessions will be remunerated at time and three-quarters (1.75x) the normal hourly rate at the discretion of the Partners.
Participation in these services forms part of the post holder's commitment to supporting patient access and continuity of care across the practice population.
Bank holidays:
There may be a rare occasion when staff are required to work a bank holiday and this would be paid at double your hourly rate
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential/Desirable
Current professional registration with appropriate regulatory body- Essential
Evidence of CPD and revalidation compliance -Essential
Independent Prescriber qualification -Essential
Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or equivalent -Desirable
Cervical Screening certification -Desirable
Childhood Immunisation certification -Desirable
Experience
Essential/Desirable
Management of acute minor illness and minor injuries presentations -Essential
Autonomous clinical decision making -Essential
Wound care assessment and management -Desirable
Primary Care/General Practice experience -Desirable
Diabetes and respiratory disease management -Desirable
Cervical screening experience -Desirable
Childhood immunisation delivery -Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential/Desirable
Clinical assessment and diagnostic skills -Essential
Infection prevention and control knowledge -Essential
Safeguarding knowledge -Essential
Excellent communication and record keeping -Essential
Knowledge of NHS screening and immunisation programmes -Desirable
Personal Attributes
Essential/Desirable
Patient centered approach -Essential
Team working and flexibility -Essential
Commitment to continuous improvement -Essential
Leadership and mentoring skills -Desirable
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
