Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A GP practice in Blackpool is looking for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner. This role involves providing high-quality care to patients, managing complex health issues, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must have an advanced clinical practice qualification and experience in primary care. Join a dedicated healthcare team focused on community health and patient support.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have completed an advanced clinical practice qualification to postgraduate or masters level.
• Experience in managing patients with complex needs.
• Must demonstrate safe clinical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuing care to patients across the whole practice population.
• Consult, assess, diagnose, and implement treatment plans.
• Lead and coordinate the clinical team.

Skills

Clinical examination skills

Autonomous clinical practice

Effective communication

Complex condition management

Education

Clinical Advanced Practice to postgraduate level

Nursing Degree

Chronic disease management qualifications

Job description

Bloomfield Medical Centre is a 7 Partner GP Practice Primary Care provider based over two sites in Blackpool, Bloomfield Medical Centre on Bloomfield Road and GrangePark Health Centre on Dinmore Avenue. Our services are diverse, forward-thinking, enabling us to deliver care to meet local priorities in relation to deprivation, chronic disease, improved access, migration from secondary care and more efficient commissioning.

We provide high quality general medical care to a registered list of over 16,000 patients over the two sites, through our dedicated team of clinical, administrative and management professionals including 7 GP Partners, Salaried doctors, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.

Main duties of the job

• Provide care to patients, including those with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health problems
• Provide continuing care to patients across the whole practice population
• Provide a range of appointment types including e-consultations, video, telephone and face-to-face
• Experience in managing patients with complex needs and minor illnesses
• Provide excellent clinical examination skills and communication skills
• Applicants must have completed, in full, an advanced clinical practice qualification to post graduate or masters level including independent prescribing and have sufficient experience to work autonomously and independently within a wider team
• Act as an independent prescriber (preferred, though will support training and qualification if needed)
• Able to demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice
• Deliver a high standard of patient care using knowledge base with the ability to demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients
• Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures

About us

Blackpool South Central Primary Care Network consists of the following practices: Bloomfield Medical Centre, Waterloo Medical Centre.

Job responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous clinical practitioner accountable for own professional judgement and actions
• Consult, assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and agree goals for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis through a co-production approach
• Provide support with the e-consultation service to patients submitting e-consultations (in addition to general appointment delivery types)
• Proactively identify patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate) and facilitate the creation of their own goal setting through the development of a self-management plan
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a patient management plan
• Undertake face to face assessments and develop treatment plans for patients not requiring a GP consultation
• 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 the scope of practice
• Request and interpret tests appropriate to patients needs
• Where required, undertake home visits as assessed by GP and acute visits for certain medical emergencies and arrange hospital admission for appropriate cases
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Undertake telephone triage work and telephone advice calls
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning, cervical cytology or sexual health consultation
• Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the national and local guidelines for Mental Health services
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
• Communicate with and support patients who are receiving difficult or complex information or results in an professionally appropriate and supportive manner
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Organise, coordinate and lead the provision of the clinical team for the service
• Promote the service and maintain the positive reputation within the local health economy
• Lead in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team
• Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations, treatments and attendances are recorded
• Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date. Ensure data collection requirements are maintained
• Lead and contribute in staff/practice meetings
• Support and develop close working relationships with reception, office and other staff
• Build and develop good working relationships with other service providers

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Clinical Advanced Practice to postgraduate level - postgraduate certificate or diploma, or full masters
• Nursing Degree Independent prescribing qualification
• Chronic disease management qualifications

Experience

• Advanced clinical practice skills
• Experience working independently and autonomously without immediate GP support (required for new models of care within a multidisciplinary team setting)
• Experience prescribing for paediatric and adult patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Experience in General Practice / Primary Care
• Experience in training, mentoring and supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.