Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

As an Advanced Practitioner within the Meon Health Practice Complex care team, you will be using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth theoretical knowledge base, to provide patient care. This will include referring patients to hospital or other community services. You will be working autonomously (in the patients home or a care home) with access to electronic patient records and available escalation to the complex care GP or duty GP for advice and support as required. You will work alongside Clinical Pharmacists from within Meon Health Practice and the ICB to deliver the appropriate medicines related care

Alongside the Meon Health Practice complex care Team, provide a first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems & social health needs. Using skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, you will establish a diagnosis and management plan

Provide assessment, treatment and diagnosis at point of first contact, by attending to patients in a variety of clinical or non-clinical settings according to patients needs

Undertake home, nursing and residential care home visits, in accordance with the relevant protocols

Make professionally autonomous decisions for which you will be accountable

Refer patients to an alternative care setting or treat & discharge as appropriate

Instigate necessary invasive/non-invasive diagnostic tests/investigations and interpret findings/reports.

Ensure that professional standards are maintained and within the guidance issued by the DoH (Department of Health), the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and the NMC

Work with multi-disciplinary teams within the SHN and healthcare community to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care

Contribute to Meon Health Practice achieving its quality and quantitative targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery

Participate in the assessment of community health needs and help to develop patient and family-centred strategies to address them

Help to develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services

Assist with development of patient care plans and ensure appropriate DNACPR decisions are in place.

Use Associated Clinical Groups informatics to identify patients needing additional care or at risk of hospital admission.

Assess frailty use Rockwood frailty scales/FI

The post-holder will:

Promote evidence-based practice via latest research-based guidelines and the development of practice-based research

Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review

Maintain any professional registration

Participate in continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities to ensure that up to date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained including maintaining up to date CPR training and other core competencies

Record accurate, timely consultation data within the patients records

Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the Practice

Pro-actively promote the complex care role within the Meon Health Practice and externally to key stakeholders and agencies

Identify own learning needs in order to remain up to date and improve service delivery

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• The right candidate will have a strong desire to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients in the community setting and have the motivation and flexibility to help develop the services as the team evolves to meet the needs of the population.
• The post holder will be a registered Nurse with post-graduate qualifications relevant to the position e.g. Physical Assessment & History Taking & prescribing.
• Car driver essential

Desirable

• Primary care experience is not essential; however, a good understanding of how Primary Care works would be beneficial.

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

The Highlands Practice

Address

Meon Health Practice

102 Highlands Road

Fareham

Hampshire

PO15 6JF

Employer's website

http://www.meonhealthpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)