Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; telephone triage diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. These patients will have booked appointments at fifteen-minute intervals. There is a requirement to see extra or emergency patients. The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the registered GP before making such referral.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing 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 condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate actions:

• 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, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.

• Provide general and specific health screenings to the Practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

• Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs and yourself

• It will be necessary to attend and contribute to various Practice meetings as requested. The only reason for not attending will be annual, study or sick leave
• Administration and professional responsibilities
  • Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team
  • Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes
  • Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded and amended
  • Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice
  • Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit
  • Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required
  • Restocking and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms

  Training and personal development

  • Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.
  • Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the introduction of all members of the Practice staff where appropriate
  • Develop and maintain an in house nurse-training programme reporting to the Nurse Manager.
  • Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development ensuring PREP requirements are met.
  • If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
  • Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan

  • Quality:

    The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

    • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
    • Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
    • Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
    • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
    • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent clinical assessment, diagnostic and prescribing skills.
• Strong communication, organisational and leadership abilities

Desirable

• Clinical experience in primary care or community setting preferred

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with NMC
• Postgraduate qualification in Advance Nursing Practice or equivalent.

Desirable

• Must be able to work Monday or Friday full day
• Able to Triage

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Ability to provide quality care
• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Desirable

• Experience of Systm One

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Great Oakley Medical Centre

Address

1 Barth Close

Great Oakley

Corby

Northamptonshire

NN18 8LU

Employer's website

https://www.greatoakleymedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)