Job responsibilities
Job Description
Job Title: Nurse Practitioner / Emergency Care Practitioner
Salary
Scale: TBC depending on experience and qualifications
Hours: TBC over three -five days
Accountable
to: The
Partners and Business Manager
Responsible
to: Business Manager
Contract: Substantive
Job Summary
The Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Practitioner will attend to
patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; 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 15-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 both face to face and on the telephone, making
any necessary referrals or investigations in the appropriate manner.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
Practice
The
following are the core responsibilities of the nurse practitioner/emergency care practitioner. There may
be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be
dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
a.Provide a triage service, actively managing or referring
patients or treating patients within own scope of practice
b.
Support the clinical team in the development of individual
treatment plans for chronic disease patients
c.
Identify, manage and support patients as risk of
developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients
health
d.
Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in
accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
e.
Request pathology services as necessary, processing and
interpreting results as required
f.
Refer patients directly to other services as appropriate
g.
Delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients
to secondary / specialist care as required
h.
Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with
extant legislation
i.
Ensure read codes are used effectively
j.
Chaperone patients where necessary
k.
Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
l.
Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
m.
Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with
mental health needs
n.
Recognise, assess and refer patients with community
health needs, developing strategies for effective care pathways
o.
Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the
patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
p.
Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately
(ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the
individual)
q.
Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters,
in accordance with local and national policies
r.
Understand practice and local policies for substance
abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
s.
Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
In
addition to the primary responsibilities, the nurse practitioner/emergency care practitioner may be
requested to:
a.If an independent prescriber, prescribe in a safe an
effective manner, in accordance with PGD and extant legislation
b.
Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit
cycle
c.
Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and
disposal of medicaments
d.
Contribute to the implementation of an effective training
programme for staff and students within the practice
e.
Provide clinical supervision for the nursing team
f.
Participate in local initiatives to enhance service
delivery and patient care
g.
Support and participate in shared learning within the
practice
h. Continually review
clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where
appropriate
i. Be aware of and
contribute to the planning and implementation of CCG patient pathway
initiatives
j. Participate in the
review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach
i.e. root cause analysis (RCA).
k. Maintain professional
registration and adhere to revalidation requirements