Job responsibilities
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing
care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits.
The post holder 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 post holder 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.
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
patients who require appointments/telephone consultations/advice via the
AskmyGP service and alternate on-call duty for the service.
- 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
- Assess,
diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home 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 practice’s 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
Providing assessment, screening services, health
education advice:
These may include (but not
restricted to);
- Blood pressure checks
- Urinalysis
- Dressings
- Contraception/ fitting contraceptive devices
- Routine immunisations and vaccinations
- Removal of sutures / clips
- Health surveillance / General health advice
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 patient’s 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 Manager.
- 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 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.