Bexhill PCN is looking for a highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team and lead on our Enhanced Health in Care home work, as well as supporting the Bexhill GP Practices with general triage and clinical support.
This role is central to the delivery of the Network Contract DES, supporting Bexhill PCN’s priorities around enhanced health in care homes, anticipatory care, and urgent access. The successful applicant will operate within a fully integrated multi-disciplinary team to provide proactive, personalised and coordinated care to our community’s most vulnerable patients.

QUALITY REQUIREMENTS

· Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to PCN colleagues to meet the needs of the service
· Be verified against the paramedic primary care roadmap
· Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics
· Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
· Participate in research and utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
· In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS

· Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
· Be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a PCN
· Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information
· Review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Job Types: Full-time
Pay: £47,000.00-£49,000.00 per year
Benefits: Company pension, Sick Pay
Schedule: Monday to Friday
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £47,000.00-£49,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 11/06/2025
Reference ID: PCNAC

· Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team (i.e. E-Hub Triage Service)
· Take a clinical lead of the Enhanced Health in Care home work and work alongside the Care Co-Ordinator’s, Practice staff Secondary Care and community staff to carry out Multi-Disciplinary team meetings and support patients living in care and residential homes.
· Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community, voluntary service or ARRS Teams.
· Be able to:
· perform specialist health checks and reviews
· perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate
· perform investigatory procedures as required
· undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.
· perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs and the wider PCN
· support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. Care home Patients and the Housebound)
· Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits
· Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service
· Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required and lead of the PCN Multi-disciplinary meetings where required.
· Collaborate with other members of the PCN including doctors, nurses and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring to them for specialist care
· Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
· Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
· Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments
· Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
· Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs
· Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly
· Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
· Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan
· Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
· Provide clinical input to PCN-led proactive care initiatives, including virtual wards and urgent community response, ensuring timely identification and escalation of deteriorating patients.
· Work in close collaboration with community teams (e.g. community nursing, frailty teams, urgent community response), social care, and secondary care as part of a fully integrated care delivery model.
· Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans by identifying patients at high risk of deterioration or hospital admission, and contribute to multi-agency care planning and MDT reviews.