Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join a forward-thinking team, responsible for delivering high-quality care and managing a small nursing team. The role involves clinical assessments, prescribing, and coordinating care for patients in a dynamic practice environment. Applicants should have a strong background in advanced nursing with relevant qualifications.

Qualifications

• Must have MSc in Nurse Practitioner studies.
• Registered first level nurse with community nursing qualification.
• Experience in case management and nurse prescribing.

Responsibilities

• Manage patient caseloads including prescribing treatments.
• Conduct clinical assessments and manage a nursing team.
• Coordinate the planning and delivery of patient care.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Expert clinical skills

Critical judgement

Patient management

Education

Registered first level nurse MSc or equivalent

MSc in Nurse Practitioner studies

Community nursing specialist qualification

Job description

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will need to prioritise the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

The postholder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will manage our team of 3 practice nurses and a HCA, as well as undertake clinical assessment including history taking and physical examination, form a diagnosis and provide a treatment plan, which may include prescribing.

About us

We have afantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly practice. The practice is forward thinkingand is supported by an excellent team.We have a strong team ethos and work collaboratively to provideoutstanding patient care.

We hold practice meetingsas well as daily informal discussions and monthly clinicalmeetings.

About us

3GP partner practice

Nursingteam including 3 Practice Nurses and an HCA

In house Clinical Pharmacist

Listsize of 9200

IT- EMIS Web, Docman, AccuRx

HighQOF Achieving

CQCrating is good throughout

Memberof a successful PCN and Federation

35minutes by train to London

LargeCar Park

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities:

Clinical Nursing Practice

• Workas part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high qualitycare.
• Carriesout clinical nursing practice at an advanced level using expert clinicalskills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate andsafe care.

·Delivery of carein line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care

• Treatpatients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referralsas necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health careteams as appropriate.

·Co-ordinate theplanning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives areinvolved.

• Prescribingand reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and inaccordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practiceprotocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
• Diagnoseand manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug basedtreatment methods into a management plan.

·Requestdiagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray,blood tests, scans, etc.

• Assess,diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home whorequire medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
• Referspatients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams,secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.

Care Management

·Communicates confidential and sensitiveinformation to patients, relatives and carers in relation to their condition.

·Provide highly specialised care advicebeyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g. care treatment plans, makingreferrals as appropriate

·Contribute to local and nationalpractice targets clinical remit e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme,National benchmarking.

·To monitor and meet care outcomesagainst standards and recommend or initiate changes as necessary.

Health Improvement

·Management of health screeningprogrammes and ensures other team members are aware of health priorities andscreening objectives and programmes.

·Innovation in practice to meet ongoingdemands on the practice’s delivery of care.

·Improve health outcomes for patients byintroducing new developments, and can demonstrate them as reports andpresentations where appropriate.

·Supports practitioners in reporting thepractice population to promote health improvement and disease prevention.

·Makes referrals to appropriate agencies(statutory and voluntary) where necessary

These may include (but notrestricted to);

• Urinalysis
• Dressings
• Routine immunisations and vaccinations
• Removal of sutures / clips
• Health surveillance / general health advice
• Organise and plan the provision of nursingservices for the practice to include the delegation of duties to othermembers of the practice nurse team as appropriate

Administrationand professional responsibilities

·Produceaccurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation,consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

• Participate in theadministrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
• Accurate and legiblenotes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patient’snotes
• Ensure clinical systemskept up to date, recording and/or amending accurate details
• Ensure appropriate itemsof service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to thepractice administrator
• Ensure accuratecompletion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the practice
• Attend and participatein practice meetings as required
• Restocking andmaintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms

Training and personal development

• Maintain up to date skills and knowledge,maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced level.
• Training needs will bemonitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with practicerequirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by thepractice.

·Assesseffectiveness of care delivery through self-reflection and peer review, as wellas benchmarking and formal evaluation.

·Contributeto the identification and assessment of learning needs of staff and otherprofessionals and assist in planning effective programmes of education.

• Participate in theeducation and training of students of all disciplines and the introductionof all members of the practice staff where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain anin house nurse-training programme reporting to the practice manager.
• Act as a mentor forjunior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
• Taking responsibility for own development,learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to otherswho are undertaking similar work and ensure own educational commitment isat least sufficient to maintain revalidation requirements.
• Develop and maintain aPersonal Learning Plan.
• Regularly participate in clinicalsupervision.

Manage,supervise, co-ordinate and guide the nursing team

• To manage the nursingservice in participation with the practice manager, ensuring relevantinformation is disseminated to and from the nursing staff
• In participation withthe practice manager, carry out yearly appraisals of all the nursing staffand produce a training programme.
• Ensure adequate nursingcover is provided while within the practice guidelines, keeping thepractice manager informed of any problems
• Develop and maintainpractice policies and protocols for all nursing activity
• To be the infectioncontrol lead in the practice and ensure all staff are aware of currentprocedures
• To plan, chair andminute management and training meetings for all nurses following thetraining programme.
• Ensure agreed practiceaudits are carried out
• Ensure the practicemanager is aware of any matters arising or problems / potential problems

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse MSc or equivalent
• - MSc in Nurse Practitioner studies and clinical assessment
• Community nursing specialist qualification
• - Counselling skills
• - Long Active Contraceptive
• - Long term conditions qualification

Experience

• - Working autonomously in an advanced nursing role
• - Audit
• - Research
• - Nurse prescribing
• Experience of working within a primary care or General Practice
• - Experience of case management

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.