Job summary
37.5hrs per week, Monday Friday
Part-time will be considered
The Advanced Clinical Nurse Practitioner
will be key to providing excellent patient care to our elderly population and will
be responsible for providing high-quality clinical care, visiting care homes, and
managing frail elderly housebound patients.
The candidate
will possess excellent communication and organisation skills, be approachable,
have a good attitude, and be self-motivated.
Experience in a similar role is desirable but not essential.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the role is to provide all aspects of care and medication queries to our elderly population and to use various systems of recording, reminding and ensuring that all activities are instigated, monitored, reviewed and completed. Excellent IT skills and high level customer service skills are therefore essential.
About us
Tyntesfield Medical Group in North Somerset is a 13 Partner General Practce with a patient list size of around 33,000 split across four sites: Tower House Medical Centre, Brockway Medical Centre, Backwell Medical Centre and Long Ashton Surgery.
We are a friendly and accessible team providing excellent healthcare in our community. We provide a professional, safe, supportive and efficient working environment for everyone in the practice. We are a forward-thinking organisation with a strong emphasis on teamwork and patient-centred care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Access and triage patients, including same-day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescibing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
- Manage undifferentiated, undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action
- Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice
- Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person
- Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, as required
- Implement and evaluate treatment and interventions within your sphere of competence
- Clinically examine and assess the person's needs, plan care accordingly, using critical thinking and a sound evidence base
- Integrate both drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan, ensuring that appropriate care plans are in place to support the person's treatment
- Act sensitively, confidentially and with empathy in demonstrating understanding of wide-ranging physical and emotional needs. Take the lead in managing contentious, sensitive and delicate issues with patients, relatives and staff
- Develop relationships and a collaborative working approach within TMG, communicating effectively with colleagues, practice staff, Partners, patients and carers where applicable; recognising the need for a variety of communication methods; being confident and competent at interacting at all levels
- Use professional judgement, to take responsibility for making and justifying decisions in unpredictable situations
- Work collaboratively with representatives of other clinical areas, disciplines and services, to provide a seamless pathway of care
- Maintain accurate and complete documentation and records, including updating primary care records
- Understnad and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused adults
- Attend in-house governance, education and staff meetings as appropriate
- Monitor the safety and effectiveness of your own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit, mentor feedback, case and peer review
- Effectively manage your own time, workload and resources
- Recognise and work within your own competence and in accordance with the relevant professional code of conduct
- Maintain confidentiality in respect of patient and staff records, subject to the requirements of the data protection act.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Access and triage patients, including same-day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescibing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
- Manage undifferentiated, undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action
- Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice
- Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person
- Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, as required
- Implement and evaluate treatment and interventions within your sphere of competence
- Clinically examine and assess the person's needs, plan care accordingly, using critical thinking and a sound evidence base
- Integrate both drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan, ensuring that appropriate care plans are in place to support the person's treatment
- Act sensitively, confidentially and with empathy in demonstrating understanding of wide-ranging physical and emotional needs. Take the lead in managing contentious, sensitive and delicate issues with patients, relatives and staff
- Develop relationships and a collaborative working approach within TMG, communicating effectively with colleagues, practice staff, Partners, patients and carers where applicable; recognising the need for a variety of communication methods; being confident and competent at interacting at all levels
- Use professional judgement, to take responsibility for making and justifying decisions in unpredictable situations
- Work collaboratively with representatives of other clinical areas, disciplines and services, to provide a seamless pathway of care
- Maintain accurate and complete documentation and records, including updating primary care records
- Understnad and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused adults
- Attend in-house governance, education and staff meetings as appropriate
- Monitor the safety and effectiveness of your own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit, mentor feedback, case and peer review
- Effectively manage your own time, workload and resources
- Recognise and work within your own competence and in accordance with the relevant professional code of conduct
- Maintain confidentiality in respect of patient and staff records, subject to the requirements of the data protection act.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of continued professional development
- Experience in clinical audit and embedding this in clinical practice to improve quality
- Experience of working with the Elderly/Frailty
- Experience in medical assessment of elderly patients
- Experinece in chronic disease management
- Experience in end of life care
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Minimum 2 years post-registration experience
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience in the management of frailty
- Experience in carrying out medication reviews
- Wound Assessment
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in nursing, or working at a master's level that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with a demonstration of care capabilities and nursing clinical competencies
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Prescribing qualification
- Graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centre's ePortfolio (supported) Route; both pathways enable eligibility for an 'Advanced' digital badge issued by the Centre, demonstrating recognised educational and experiential preparation in advanced practice.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Compassionate, flexible, trauma-informed approach
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload, under pressure
- Be comfortable with change and work collaboratively across the group
- Ability to build relationships with a wide variety of roles and in different sectors
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Calm and objective
- Approachable
- Ability to deal with difficult/sensitive issues
- Driving licence with access to car
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt style according to audience and situation
- Conceptual and analytical skills
- Ability to evidence in writing, verbally and through listening skills, personal understanding and use of English language
- Enthusiasm and committed
- Time management skills
- IT skills
- Patient focused
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Ability to use itiative and make decisions
- Analyse problems and implement appropriate solutions
Desirable
- Knowledge of primary care IT systems
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS
- Have a confident approach and the ability to inspire confidence
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of continued professional development
- Experience in clinical audit and embedding this in clinical practice to improve quality
- Experience of working with the Elderly/Frailty
- Experience in medical assessment of elderly patients
- Experinece in chronic disease management
- Experience in end of life care
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Minimum 2 years post-registration experience
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience in the management of frailty
- Experience in carrying out medication reviews
- Wound Assessment
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in nursing, or working at a master's level that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with a demonstration of care capabilities and nursing clinical competencies
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Prescribing qualification
- Graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centre's ePortfolio (supported) Route; both pathways enable eligibility for an 'Advanced' digital badge issued by the Centre, demonstrating recognised educational and experiential preparation in advanced practice.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Compassionate, flexible, trauma-informed approach
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload, under pressure
- Be comfortable with change and work collaboratively across the group
- Ability to build relationships with a wide variety of roles and in different sectors
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Calm and objective
- Approachable
- Ability to deal with difficult/sensitive issues
- Driving licence with access to car
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt style according to audience and situation
- Conceptual and analytical skills
- Ability to evidence in writing, verbally and through listening skills, personal understanding and use of English language
- Enthusiasm and committed
- Time management skills
- IT skills
- Patient focused
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Ability to use itiative and make decisions
- Analyse problems and implement appropriate solutions
Desirable
- Knowledge of primary care IT systems
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS
- Have a confident approach and the ability to inspire confidence
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
