ANP/ ACP for Home visiting team

NHS; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Wisbech is seeking a motivated and skilled ANP/ACP to join their home visiting team. The role involves conducting assessments and providing care to patients in their homes, ensuring timely medical intervention to avoid referrals to GPs. Candidates must be registered with NMC/HCPC, a non-medical prescriber, and possess a relevant master's degree. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or paramedic with a valid NMC/HCPC registration.
• Experienced in primary care as an ANP/ACP.
• Strong commitment to continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct home visits for patients unable to attend practice.
• Assess patients and devise treatment plans.
• Order and interpret tests and refer patients as needed.
• Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Triage skills

Home visit assessment

Emergency treatment initiation

Education

Registered with NMC/HCPC

Non-medical prescriber

MSc/Evidence of Level 7 competence in advanced practice

Job description

Working as part of a busy team consisting of 3 other ANP's, you will be providing an efficient home visiting service. Working independently and autonomously through mainly face-to-face consultations in the patient's own home or care home. You will be accountable for delivering safe, clinical decision making and expert care to a high standard. Acting within your professional boundaries and scope of practice.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include all (or part) of the patient journey, including history taking; clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment/prescribing and review. The ANP/ACP role will encompass the four pillars of advanced clinical practice. The role is to provide robust on-the-day appointments and effective triage for our housebound complex patient list.

About us

We are a friendly GP Practice looking for a motivated, highly skilled and enthusiastic ANP/ACP to join our home visiting team.

The ANP/ACP autonomous role provides an opportunity for patients to avoid the need to be referred to a GP, thereby enabling them to receive timely care and negate unnecessary delay in receiving treatment.

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the role are:

Conducting home visits for patients who are unable to attend the practice (e.g. frailty, palliative care, acute illness, complex, chronic long-term conditions)

Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.

Take history, make appropriate physical examinations, formulate differential diagnoses and carry through management treatment plans when working in a home visit environment.

Through telephone triage and clinical assessment, obtain a relevant and sequential history of the presenting complaint to determine a working diagnosis.

Ordering and interpreting blood tests, scans, x-rays, including other relevant investigations and referrals

Recognise the need and initiate emergency treatment to save a life or safeguard the patient's interests, and refer to emergency services when appropriate. This includes escalation/referral to hospital or other community services.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical decision-making within your clinical competence.

Working alongside other ANP/ACP/GP's, community teams to provide holistic patient care.

Escalating complex cases to senior clinicians

Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC/HCPC
• Non-medical prescriber
• MSc/Evidence of Level 7 competence in advanced practice
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Personal Attributes

• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality daily

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ANP
• Experience of working in primary care at ANP/ACP level

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.