BrisDoc Healthcare Services
Clinical Practitioner - Burren
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Role Overview
The Clinical Practitioner will work across Severnside Integrated Urgent Care (IUC), including The Burren, Out of Hours, Clinical Assessment Service (CAS), Clinical Medication Delivery Unit (CMDU), and Frailty Assessment and Coordination for Emergency and Urgent Care (ACE).
About The Burren
The Burren is an innovative collaborative service bringing together secondary, community, urgent, and primary care within an intermediate care setting. The post holder will be an autonomous prescribing clinician, providing high-quality primary medical care while working within their professional scope of practice. The role involves managing the day-to-day clinical needs of patients discharged from secondary care into community placements with rehabilitation needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Patient Care: The successful candidate will have advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills, be confident in managing clinical risk, and work independently while contributing to excellent patient outcomes. Experience in urgent care and chronic disease management would be advantageous.
- Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration: As a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), the post holder will participate in ward rounds and work closely with Nurses, GPs, Therapists, Social Care, and Operational colleagues to support patients and deliver the right care at the right time.
Clinical Responsibilities
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- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, complex needs, acute and chronic conditions for both physical, mental health, and psycho-social needs.
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
- Undertake visits to patient’s homes as required.
- Compose and ensure robust safety netting and risk management for patients presenting to the service.
- Make effective referrals to system partners and other care providers to ensure a holistic provision of care for patient’s needs.
- Participate in team discussions to ensure and drive best practice, using the best available evidence to provide exemplary world-class care to every patient.
Prescribers Only
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
CMDU Only
- This is a service for North Somerset prescribing antivirals for Covid. This service is run during set hours and has one allocated clinician.
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
About BrisDoc
BrisDoc is a proud provider of NHS Healthcare. We have been delivering ‘patient care, by people who care’ for over twenty years.
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- We run an exciting range of Primary Care Services, including an Urgent Care Service, GP Practices, and the Homeless Health Service. This enables BrisDoc to offer excellent healthcare 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to over one million people across Bristol, North Somerset & South Glos.
- We’re a Social Enterprise and an Employee-Owned Business. This means the decisions we make are for the good of our patients, workforce, and wider community. This involves prioritising the health of our patients, protecting our environment, and improving the social and economic status of our population. Our ‘Community Fund’ is a staff-lead team who work closely with health-based charitable causes, both local and international, to invest time and money in improving the lives of people in disadvantaged communities.
By joining BrisDoc, you will be part of an innovative organisation that prides ourselves on being a fantastic place to work; somewhere that you will feel valued, supported, developed, and part of a family. We strive to make sure every member of the team feels proud of the work they do and the service that we offer.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Anjana Moolaplackel Thankachan
- Job title: People Team Coordinator
- Email address: workwithus@brisdoc.org
- Telephone number: 0117 937 0900
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