Care Home visiting ANP/ACP

Ledbury Health Partnership; Ledbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare practice in Ledbury seeks an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) or Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to provide high-quality planned care in care homes. Responsibilities include conducting ward rounds, managing patient care plans, and working independently alongside GPs. The ideal candidate is organized, an efficient communicator, and has experience with older adults. The role is part-time, requiring three days of work per week.

Qualifications

• Experience working as an ACP or ANP in a community or medical setting.
• Ability to work independently.
• Effective communication skills.
• Organized and efficient work style.
• Experience working with patients in care homes.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality planned care for care home patients.
• Conduct ward rounds in care homes.
• Support practices with anticipatory care discussions.
• Manage undifferentiated health needs of patients.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Efficiency

Independent working

Experience with older adults

Education

Post Graduate Degree Qualification in Clinical Practice

Professional registration

Post graduate qualification in Prescribing

Tools

EMIS Web

Docman 10

accuRx

Job description

The role's main focus will beto provide high quality Planned and proactive care for care homepatients in a weekly ward round; including but not limited to:

- supporting the practice with ongoing managementof care home patients by reviewing patients and amending Personalised Care& Support Plans and RESPECT forms.

- supporting care home patients withanticipatory care discussions and planning.

- providing acute medical treatment for care homepatients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

- assessing and managing patients withundifferentiated and undiagnosed health care needs including investigating, treating,and referring patients as appropriate.

- Independently prescribing (where applicable to therole) and review appropriate medications in accordance with local policies andevidence based medical practice and work collaboratively with the wider team tosupport patients and to promote medication adherence.

- ordering investigations, follow-up results andarranging appropriate management including seeking advice where appropriate.

- Actively take a personalised careapproach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision makingwith the presenting person.

- Supporting practices with ward roundsand MDTs.

Main duties of the job

CLINICALASSESSMENT:

To provide a first point of contact for carehome patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs at the mostappropriate time and place.

Provide comprehensive and supportive end of lifediscussions with palliative care home residents, ensuring a thorough advancedcare assessment and plan are developed.

Complete frailty assessments and provide plansusing this information.

Provide and receive complex information; develops communication skills/presentcomplex information to GPs where appropriate.

To provide advanced assessment skills in historytaking and clinical examination to formulate a diagnosis and initiate anappropriate plan of care, including referral to other health and social care professionals,as necessary.

Instigate and interpret diagnosticinvestigations as appropriate.

About us

About the Practice

Practice Population of 13600and we cover the town of Ledbury itself plus the surrounding villages andhamlets.

5 Partner GP Team supported by multidisciplinary clinicalteam of Salaried GPs, Nurses, HCAs, Paramedic Practitioner, ANP, P, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician, First Contact Practitioner and Care Co-ordinators.

Values: peer support, high quality patient centredcare, innovation, continuous service improvement, compassion and good humour.

Good CQC rating

Training practice we have a combination of FY2sand trainees at different times

Medical system: EMIS Web, Docman 10, accuRx

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an ANP or ACP to work 3 days per week carrying out ward rounds to our care homes. You will work together with the GP who has responsibility for the patients residing in the care homes, and you will have the expert help of a dedicated care home coordinator who will manage the administrate and planning side of your rounds.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, organised and efficient and able to work independently.

Person Specification

Experience

• * Experience of working as an ACP or ANP in a community or medical setting
• * Able to work independently
• * Able to communicate effectively
• * Organised and efficient
• * Experience of working with older adults
• * Experience of working with patients in care homes

Qualifications

• QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPLIANCE:
• * The successful candidate will have or working towards a Post Graduate Degree Qualification in their field, Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification, with evidence of academic study and practical experience of situations that are typically encountered in a primary care setting.
• * You will need to be registered with a professional body.
• * It is a requirement for the candidate to have attained a post graduate qualification in Prescribing or be working towards qualification.
• * To remain up to date with all mandatory training.
• * To maintain up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding adult guidance to ensure that those at risks of abuse/suffering abuse are identified and the necessary process to protect them is followed.

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.