Senior Advanced Practitioner – Emergency Medicine

Job Description

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

The post holder will work as a senior advanced practitioner responsible for providing advanced clinical care and management of both the stable and acutely unwell patients and their family, making complex, autonomous decisions using advanced skills and knowledge. They will have overall responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the delivery of advanced care. The post holder will be an experienced clinician who, acting within their professional boundaries, provides care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care. The senior advanced practitioner must demonstrate competence within all four pillars of advanced practice and make professional autonomous decisions for which they are accountable.

The post holder will provide the assessment, examination, diagnosis, management and treatment initiation to a range of adults and/or children.

In this key role, you will:

• Perform advanced and autonomous comprehensive physical examination and assessment; plan and initiate care and advanced treatment modalities.
• Prescribe medication in accordance with current guidelines for non medical prescribers, including starting new medications and discharge prescriptions.
• Request radiological investigations for patients and rationalise the reason for requests.
• Interpret x ray and other investigations to support diagnosis and start immediate treatment.

What You’ll Bring:

• Registered Nurse / AHP or Pharmacist with a valid NMC / HCPC / GPhC registration.
• Completion of a Post Graduate Diploma (Masters) in Advanced Practice with evidence of finalising a Masters degree; the post holder is undertaking the last module of a Masters degree which is the research dissertation.
• Independent prescriber.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the NHS Scotland Leadership Qualities Framework or an equivalent framework.

What We Offer

• Annual Leave – 35 days including public holidays.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Annual incremental salary progression.
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service.
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.