Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Chesham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity exists at NHS for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner based in Chesham, working alongside GPs and allied healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will independently assess and manage patients, providing expert care while addressing acute and emergency clinical presentations. This role requires a Masters in Advanced Practice and relevant nursing qualifications, along with strong clinical decision-making skills to ensure the best patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in prescribing and medication reviews.
• Qualified triage nurse.
• Experience in a primary care environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, treatment, and diagnosis to patients.
• Manage patients presenting with acute medical conditions.
• Undertake audits and participate in local initiatives.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Assessment skills

Triage skills

Management of acute conditions

Education

Masters degree in Advanced Practice

Post graduate diploma for Advanced Practice Qualification

Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council

Job description

An excitingopportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Advanced NursePractitioner to join our friendly, dedicated and established team based inChesham.

As a member of our clinical team you will be working alongside our GPs and other allied healthcare professionals to provide the very best patient care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be required to work independently, within the scope of their professional boundaries, to assess and manage patients. You will be providing assessment, treatment, and diagnosis to patients via face-to-face consultations. Consultations will be held in surgery. You will be seeing patients with acute and emergency primary care clinical presentations.

You will need to demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care including assessment and diagnostic skills. There will be a need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients making any necessary referrals for investigations as appropriate.

You will need to be a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner, with an MSc or equivalent relevant nursing degree. An independent prescribing qualification is preferable, as well as prior experience of working in Primary Care.

About us

The New Surgery is a stable six-partner Practice supported by an excellent, dedicated team of nurses and admin /reception team.We also benefit from a wide multi-disciplinary team, including clinical support from a Pharmacist, Physiotherapist and Nursing Associate.

We are a GMS practice, with a list size of 11,000, based in a purpose-built medical centre in Chesham with free parking available on site.We share the premises with another GP surgery and a dentist.There is also a pharmacy on the ground floor.

We are an EMIS practice, rated GOOD by CQC and we consistently receive excellent results in the National Patient Survey.

Our current ANP is leaving us to pursue a new opportunity abroad and we are keen to find a replacement who will fill this established and fully integrated role within our clinical team.

Job responsibilities

Thefollowing are the main responsibilities of this role. There may be, onoccasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent uponfactors such as workload and staffing levels:

• Managepatients presenting with a range of acute medical conditions
• Provideadvanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance withclinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Identify,manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions,preventing adverse effects to the patients health
• Undertakethe collection of pathological specimens
• Requestpathology services as necessary
• Processand interpret pathology and other test results as required
• Maintainaccurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Chaperonepatients where necessary
• Supportthe team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise,assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Bean extended and supplementary prescriber
• Supportpatients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines(within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• Contributeto practice targets (QOF, etc), complying with local and regional guidance
• Supportthe clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local andnational policies
• Understandpractice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour,referring patients appropriately
• Deliveropportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• In addition, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner may be requested to:
• Undertakeaudits as required
• Participatein local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Supportand participate in shared learning within the organisation
• Continuallyreview clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiativeswhere appropriate
• Participatein the review of significant and near-miss events
• Drivethe development of nursing services within the organisation, liaising withexternal agencies and professional organisations as required

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Masters degree in Advanced Practice required for qualification post December 2020
• Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
• Qualified triage nurse

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.