Job responsibilities
JOB TITLE: ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER/NURSE MANAGER
JOB HOLDER:
REPORTS TO: THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
PARTNERS (Clinically)
HOURS:
Job Summary:
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients presenting with minor and acute illness and injury, working with the GPs to support same day demand and acute care needs of the patients. This will be via face to face, video, telephone and e-consultations.
The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
The postholder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.
As the Nurse Manager, the post holder is accountable for nursing service delivery. They will lead and manage all the nursing resources, working closely with the practice manager and GPs to deliver the practice priorities. They will work within the team of nurses and health care assistants to deliver excellent primary health care services within the practice.
Job responsibilities:
Clinical Nursing Practice
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality care.
Carries out clinical nursing practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.
Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as appropriate.
Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved.
Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
- Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
Assess, diagnose and treat patients in practice premises who require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
Refers patients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.
Care Management
Communicates confidential and sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers in relation to their condition.
Provide highly specialised care advice beyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g. care treatment plans, making referrals as appropriate (including fast track referrals).
Contribute to local and national practice targets clinical remit e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme, National benchmarking.
To monitor and meet care outcomes against standards and recommend or initiate changes as necessary.
Health Improvement
Management of health screening programmes and ensures other team members are aware of health priorities and screening objectives and programmes.
Innovation in practice to meet ongoing demands on the practices delivery of care.
Improve health outcomes for patients by introducing new developments, and can demonstrate them as reports and presentations where appropriate.
Supports practitioners in reporting the practice population to promote health improvement and disease prevention.
Makes referrals to appropriate agencies (statutory and voluntary) where necessary
Administration and professional responsibilities
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
Accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes
Ensure clinical systems kept up to date, recording and/or amending accurate details
Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator
Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
Restocking and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms
Administration and
professional responsibilities
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of
patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Participate
in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice
team
Accurate
and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the
patients notes
Ensure
clinical systems kept up to date, recording and/or amending accurate
details
Ensure
appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any
problems to the practice administrator
Ensure
accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient
health care and registration with the practice
Attend
and participate in practice meetings as required
Restocking
and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms
Training and personal
development
Maintain up to date skills and
knowledge, maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced
level.
Training
needs will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with
practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and
supported by the practice.
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self-reflection
and peer review, as well as benchmarking and formal evaluation.
Contribute to the identification and assessment of learning
needs of staff and other professionals and assist in planning effective
programmes of education.
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/practice
manager.
Act
as a mentor for junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
Taking responsibility for own
development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and
activities to others who are undertaking similar work and ensure own
educational commitment is at least sufficient to maintain revalidation
requirements.
Develop
and maintain a Personal Learning Plan.
Regularly participate in clinical
supervision.
Leadership personal and people development
Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice
nursing services ensuring that the needs of the patient are a priority
Provide line management support to the nursing team
Support staff development in order to maximise
potential
Actively promote the workplace as a learning
environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from
external good practice
Critically evaluate and review innovations and
developments that are relevant to the area of work
Work with practice management to ensure sufficient
staffing to provide a safe service, and that staff have the appropriate
ability, quality and skill-mix to meet current and future service delivery
Take part in recruitment processes where appropriate.
Maintain effective communication and active
involvement in the planning and processes of providing enhanced services
or similar initiatives
Promote the role of the advanced nurse practitioner in
general practice.
