Minor Illness Practitioner (Bank)

We are looking for a Bank Minior Illness Practitioner to join Surrey Heath Community Providers deliver of winter pressures services Our clinical activity is provided between 08:00 20:00 Monday to Friday and 09:00 - 17:00 on Saturdays. Hourly rate of pay - £25.30 to £29.47 per hour, depending on experience, plus 12.07% annual leave payment (in lieu of annual leave) and Saturday enhancement (please note: no additional enhancement for weekday evenings). Role Summary

• 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., The duties and responsibilities may be varied under the direction of the Associate Director of Clinical Services, GP or Federation / PCN Director, and will be dependent on current and evolving practice need.
The below is not a full list of duties and responcibilioties, please refer to the attached job description
• Demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice.
• Participate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (within the scope of practice, competence and confidence).
• Discharge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals / external agencies.
• 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.
• Work with urgent care teams in delivering high quality patient centred clinical care.
• Support triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triage and streaming decision making when required.
• Participate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting to see the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner).
• Work with patients and carers assessing health needs, plan care and promote health, reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease.
• Perform digital consultation.
  
  We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 103,000 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 vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless healthcare that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for