Nurse Practitioner

The Green House Surgery; Redcar; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Redcar is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join their team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients within a busy GP surgery. Offering a supportive environment, this position includes a negotiable salary, flexible annual leave, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays

Unlimited education support package

Friendly team environment

Qualifications

• Proven ability to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a primary care setting.
• Clean driving license required for home visits.
• Experience working in a primary care or urgent care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to patients in a GP surgery.
• Assess and treat patients with undiagnosed conditions.
• Conduct home visits for acute conditions.

Skills

Autonomous decision-making

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Risk management

Education

RGN with Nurse Practitioner degree

Current NMC registration

Tools

SystmOne

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Job description

We are looking to recruit an experienced Nurse Practitionerto support the clinical team in our busy GP Surgery in Redcar.

You will demonstrate safe clinical decision making andexpert care, working collaboratively with the general practice team to meet theneeds of patients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be competent in the delivery of primary care to our practice population, having direct clinical involvement and extensive clinical knowledge.

They will assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients who attend with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions.

They will work as an independent and autonomous Care Practitioner providing a first point of access in primary health care.

The post holder will undertake, home visits, including care homes primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by the duty doctor and within boundaries of professional qualification.

They will also be able to provide clinical supervision and support to the nursing team, and advise and support while liaising with other practice staff.

About us

Our existing clinical team consists of 4 GP Partners, Salaried GP, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Advanced HCAs, HCAs, Phlebotomists, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.

Our resoluteteam provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varyingneeds of our patients, and, in turn, provides what we believe is a sustainablemodel of Modern General Practice. We have an overarching vision of PuttingPatients First and providing services that tailor their needs, which we striveto achieve through brilliant leadership, mentorship, teamwork, communication,problem- sharing and solving, training, education and continued development.

We have excellent publictransport links (Redcar train stations are within walking distance) and haveample free on-site parking.

The Employment Package we offer includes:

• A positive organisation culture with a friendly,supportive team;it's a nice place to work.
• Salary negotiable depending on experience for theright candidate based on skills and experience.
• A named GP mentor to provide support withmore complex cases and processes as required.
• 6 weeks annual leave plus a pro rata share ofBH, plus study leave.
• An unlimited education support package with NBmedical.
• An employee support package (with access topersonal support resources).
• Regular team meetings; including clinicaleducational meetings and regular clinical meetings.

Job responsibilities

Responsible to Senior Partner - clinically and Business Managerorganisational/administrative issues

Salary Dependingon clinical competence and experience

Job Summary

The post-holderwill be competent in the delivery of primary care to patients in the practicepopulation (with the only exception being children under the age of one),having direct clinical involvement and extensive clinical knowledge.

To assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpostpatients who attend surgery with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions.

They will work atan independent and autonomous Care Practitioner level providing a first pointof access in primary health care

To undertake home visits, includingNursing/Residential Homes primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by yourduty doctor, and within the boundaries of professional qualifications.

The post holder will use advanced clinicalskills to provide education to patients, promoting self-care and empower themto make informed choices about their treatment.

They will be ableto provide clinical supervision and support to the nursing team, advice andsupport while liaising with other practice staff.

To enableclinicians to safely travel to visit patients in their own home; they areobliged to ensure that your vehicle is in good working order and covered bybusiness class car insurance (any additional premium will be paid by thepractice upon receipt of a copy of the vehicle insurance cost)

Uponrequest, a percentage of the Nurse Practitioners time may be spent on personaland practice development activities including audit, research, team developmentand clinical governance.

JobResponsibilities:

Diagnosing and treating patients

Triage and treat patientswishing to see a health care professional, making any necessary referrals toother members of the primary health care team

Acute care providing clinical support/dealing with patients bookedinto the GP On Call clinics

Domiciliary Care seeing patients in their own homes who are too ill toattend surgery and/or performing a ward round/virtual ward round at ourregistered Nursing Homes

Patients with problems needing referral tosecondary care should be discussed with the Usual GP before making suchreferral.

Ensure clinical Practice is safeand effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledgedlimitations.

Advise patients on generalhealth care and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primaryand secondary health care team as necessary

To undertake home visits,primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by the Duty Team, and within theboundaries of professional qualifications.

To communicate at all levelswithin the team ensuring an effective service is delivered.

To maintain accurate, up-to-date healthcarerecords appropriate to the consultation.

Ensure evidenced-based care isdelivered to the highest standards.Enhance own performance throughContinuous Professional Development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours tomeet the needs of the service.

To participate in the auditprocess, evaluation and implementing plans and Practice change in order to meetpatient need.

Contribute positively to theeffectiveness and efficiency of the team and work colleagues.

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

Undertake the collection of pathologicalspecimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatoryprocedures requested by the GPs

Administration and professional responsibilities

Participate in theadministrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team

Ensure SystmOne is kept up todate, with accurate details recorded and amended

Ensure accurate completion ofall necessary documentation associated with patient health care andregistration with the Practice

Ensure collection andmaintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reportsand audit

Attend and participate in Practicemeetings as required

Training and personal development

Training requirements will bemonitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practicerequirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice.It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recentdevelopments.

Participate in the education andtraining of students of all disciplines and the induction of all members of thePractice staff where appropriate

Maintain continued education byattendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary forprofessional development.If it is necessary to expand therole to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.

The post-holder will participatein any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment.

Taking responsibility for owndevelopment, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activitiesto others who are undertaking similar work.

As well as the nursing team,there is a need to work closely with Administration to ensure the smoothrunning of the Practice, reporting any problems encountered to the relevantperson.

There is also the need toestablish and maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies,including secondary care.

Confidentiality

In the course of seekingtreatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the rightto expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the dutiesoutlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staffand other healthcare workers. They mayalso have access to information relating to the Practice as a businessorganisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded asstrictly confidential

Information relating topatients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practicemay only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practicepolicies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection ofpersonal and sensitive data

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effectivecommunication within the team and with patients and will strive to recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.

Health & Safety

Practice staff will comply with all policies inrelation to Health and Safety and ensure they complete any mandatory trainingas advised by the Practice Manager.Maintain an up to date knowledge of health andsafety and infection prevention & control statutory and Practiceguidelines.

Using personal security systems within theworkplace according to Practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in workactivities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to updateknowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection prevention &control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free fromhazards

Equality and Diversity

Practice staff will support the equality, diversity and rights ofpatients, carers, and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importanceof peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practiceprocedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs andbeliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to theindividual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings,priorities and rights.

Quality

Practicestaff will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of qualityand risk

Assess own performance and take accountabilityfor own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team byreflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improveand enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in otheragencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload andresources

InformationGovernance

Practicestaff must keep up to date with the requirements of information governance andmust follow Practice policies and procedures to ensure information is dealtwith legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriatelymanage the records they create or hold during the course of their employmentwith the Practice, making the records available for sharing in a controlledmanner, subject to the statutory requirements and agreed security andconfidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g Freedom of InformationAct 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries intohealth records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, andthat record keeping is up-to-date.

Person Specification

Skills/Abilities

• An excellent standard of written and verbal English.
• Ability to make autonomous decisions.
• Ability to assess, minimise and manage risks and defuse stressful situations, ability to stay calm.
• Competent use of IT systems, Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Working independently.
• Teaching and developing others.

Essential Other

• Clean Driving Licence

Qualifications

• RGN with Nurse Practitioner degree and clinical skills (OSCEs)
• Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
• Current NMC registration
• Please refer to job description/person supporting information.

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care setting or urgent care setting.
• Ability to work within a team to provide the best outcome for the patient.
• An ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge, to respond to enquiries and requests while adhering to Practice limitations.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by NMC.

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.