Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Practitioner (Primary Care)

NHS Jobs; Staithes; Sur place; GBP 50 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NHS Jobs in the United Kingdom is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Practitioner for primary care. The role provides first point of contact for undifferentiated health needs, delivers domiciliary visits, and uses advanced assessment skills to diagnose and plan care with appropriate referrals.

You will manage a caseload, order and interpret tests, develop long-term treatment plans, prescribe within your scope, contribute to practice pathways, work with secondary care, and

Responsabilités

• Provide a first point of contact for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs.
• Provide domiciliary visits.
• Using advanced assessment skills of history taking and clinical examination, make a diagnosis and initiate an appropriate plan of care, including referral to other health and social care professionals as necessary.
• Provide ongoing education and health promotion in relation to primary prevention/secondary prevention.
• Organise and manage own patient caseload.
• Request, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to assess patients' clinical problems or monitor progress.
• Manage patients with long term conditions, including the development, implementation and evaluation of individualised treatment plans.
• To provide a holistic clinical assessment drawing on knowledge about the wider determinants of health and ill health.
• Independently prescribe medication within own scope of practice and undertake medication reviews in accordance with current guidance.
• Participate in the development and implementation of Practice/PCN and wider system clinical pathways and guidelines where appropriate.
• Provide clinical care within own scope of practice and recognise, assess and appropriately refer patients presenting with mental health or safeguarding needs.
• Provide expert clinical advice and support within the practitioners area of competence.
• Establish links with Secondary Care providers to help deliver changes in care pathways and protocols.
• Work with nursing/medical teams in providing proactive management of patients with chronic diseases in accordance with local/national policy.
• Collating data and involvement in Chronic Disease Management for disease specific areas including Hypertension, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Asthma and COPD as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Reviewing patients on other registers including Mental Health, Frailty and Epilepsy Registers and inputting data where appropriate as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• Undertaking audit of patients requiring review of further intervention.

Description du poste

Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Practitioner (Primary Care)

Key Clinical Responsibilities

• 1. To provide a first point of contact for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs.
• 2. Provide domiciliary visits
• 3. Using advanced assessment skills of history taking and clinical examination, make a diagnosis and initiate an appropriate plan of care, including referral to other health and social care professionals as necessary.
• 4. Provide ongoing education and health promotion in relation to primary prevention/secondary prevention.
• 5. Organise and manage own patient caseload.
• 6. Request, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to assess patients' clinical problems or monitor progress.
• 7. Manage patients with long term conditions, including the development, implementation and evaluation of individualised treatment plans.
• 8. To provide a holistic clinical assessment drawing on knowledge about the wider determinants of health and ill health.
• 9. Independently prescribe medication within own scope of practice and undertake medication reviews in accordance with current guidance.
• 10. Participate in the development and implementation of Practice/PCN and wider system clinical pathways and guidelines where appropriate.
• 11. Provide clinical care within own scope of practice and recognise, assess and appropriately refer patients presenting with mental health or safeguarding needs.
• 12. Provide expert clinical advice and support within the practitioners area of competence.
• 13. Establish links with Secondary Care providers to help deliver changes in care pathways and protocols.
• 14. Work with nursing/medical teams in providing proactive management of patients with chronic diseases in accordance with local/national policy.
• 15. Collating data and involvement in Chronic Disease Management for disease specific areas including Hypertension, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Asthma and COPD as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• 16. Reviewing patients on other registers including Mental Health, Frailty and Epilepsy Registers and inputting data where appropriate as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
• 17. Undertaking audit of patients requiring review of further intervention.

Clinical Developments

• 1. Establish initiatives which will contribute to improving access to quality services such as rapid access to minor injuries/minor illness, Chronic Disease management.
• 2. Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of peer clinical supervision and appraisal.
• 3. Take an active role in clinical governance, quality improvement, clinical audit and significant event/ near miss review, contributing to the development and implementation of clinical policies, pathways and guidelines.

General Responsibilities

• 1. To contribute to the overall development and implementation of clinical developments at practice level.
• 2. Provide evidence of continued professional development.
• 3. Participate in regular and ongoing appraisal, taking responsibility for professional competency.
• 4. To be aware of and utilise risk management strategies both clinical and organisational in all aspects of practice.
• 5. Maintain current registration with the relevant statutory professional regulator and practise in accordance with its Code and requirements.
• 6. To comply with health, safety and welfare of self and others within the requirements of health and safety regulations.
• 7. To ensure confidentiality at all times and comply with the practice Caldicott requirements.