Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Wychall Lane Surgery

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Wychall Lane Surgery in Birmingham. This role involves comprehensive patient care, clinical assessment, and leadership within a general practice team. Ideal candidates will hold a master's degree and have significant clinical experience. Join a dedicated team focused on high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above)
• Evidence of ongoing CPD and teaching in various environments

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and treat patients presenting with minor illness.
• Provide assessment, screening, and health education.

Skills

Advanced Clinical Assessment skills

Clinical reasoning

Leadership

Education

Masters degree required for qualification post December 2020

Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification

Job description

Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Wychall Lane Surgery

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Job summary

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification forfurther information about this post. If you have any questions regarding thisvacancy, please contact Clair Huckerby Chief (Consultant) Pharmacist Our HealthPartnership: [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring, compassionate and committed experienced nurse who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice. The post holder will commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership as required.

About us

Our Health Partnership was setup by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary careand using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GPpartnership of 30 practices with 39 surgeries,serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham,Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

Job responsibilities

Keyroles and functions:

• To work autonomously, providing a highquality, safe and supportive environment for patients, meeting theiridentified physical and psycho-social needs within the scope of individualaccountable practice.
• Work within Practice guidelines, policies,protocols and procedures reporting outcomes to appropriate clinical staffso standards of care can be monitored and improved where necessary. Thisincludes adhering to the following agendas: infection control, equalityand diversity, health and safety.
• Maintain effective communication withpatients, carers, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary teamensuring information is shared appropriately and confidentially so patientneeds are met in accordance with NHS directives and safeguarding policies(DH 2003; DH 2010).
• Protect and maintain patient records to theagreed Practice standard and in accordance with professional recordkeeping standards (NMC 2009).
• Administer medicines in accordance with anon-medical prescribing framework, patient specific direction or patientgroup direction in accordance with the standards for medicine management(NMC 2007).
• Organise, manage and prioritise own workloadensuring care of patients is paramount.
• Develop the role by using evidence-basedpractice and continuously improving own knowledge as defined in the PREPhandbook (NMC 2011) and revalidation guidelines.

Job responsibilities:

Diagnosing and Treating Patients Presenting with Minor Illness

• Triageand treat patients presenting with minor illness and wishing to see ahealthcare professional; either in surgery in in their own home; making any necessaryreferrals to other members of the primary healthcare team.
• Advisepatients on general healthcare and minor ailments, with referral to othermembers of the primary or secondary healthcare team, as necessary.
• Prescribemedicines in accordance with NMC Standards for Medicines Management (2007), NMCCode of Professional Standards (2015) and the Nurse Prescribing ImplementationPlan (1998).
• Ensureclinical practice is safe and effective and remains within the boundaries ofcompetence and to acknowledge limitations.

Providing Assessment, Screening and Health Education:

• MinorIllness / Minor Injury Clinics
• Chronicdisease and admissions avoidance reviews and care planning
• Lead inthe area of Frailty and Care Homes and perform ward round visits Primary CareNetwork practices
• Palliativeand End of Life Care and completion of DNACPR/Respect forms as required
• StructuredMedication Reviews
• Falls,Mental Health/Capacity, Social Needs Assessments
• Healthscreening, contraception, dietary advice, blood pressure checks
• Performor request blood tests, urinalysis, ECGs (if required)
• Cytology,Injections, Dressings, Removal of sutures/clips (if required)
• Providegeneral and specific health screening to the practice population, within agreedprotocols, with referral to other members of the primary and secondaryhealthcare team as necessary

The following are implicit expectations of the post holder:

• A willingness to undertakeadditional courses, training and education to meet the needs of theposition; this includes attendance at on and off-site meetings and somestudy during non-working hours.
• To undertake regular clinicalsupervision with a GP.
• A willingness to adaptworking practice to meet changing practice and service development.
• Flexibility of working acrosssites if required.
• Performance is monitored onan ongoing basis and formally appraised annually.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situation
• Sound clinical reasoning & decision making
• Flexible
• Ability to inspire and lead a team

Qualifications

• Professional Registration
• Masters degree required for qualification post December 2020 refer to RCN Credentialing for Advanced Level of Nursing Practice.
• Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area
• Evidence of on-going CPD
• Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced Clinical Assessment skills
• Evidence of research & audit
• Publication in healthcare journals
• Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations

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.