ANP/ACP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job descriptionJob responsibilities

Clinical Care

Act as Advanced Nurse Practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles. Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.

Undertake consultations with patients as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat or refer patients

• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and nondrug- based treatment methods into a management plan
• Make direct referrals to primary, secondary and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols.
• Work with patients and their carers in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments
• Ensure care plans are in place, including emergency health care plans following discussion with the patient and family members
• Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care, delivered in a timely manner.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocol, within scope of practice.
• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of each and every patient contact.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner and as part of multi-disciplinary and multiagency teams in order to ensure patient needs are met.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care
• May be require to visit patients at home

• Professional

Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and at all times work within the scope of professional practice.

Ensure that professional practice adheres to organisational and NMC policies, procedures and guidelines.

Maintain a professional manner and act as a positive role model to other members of the Primary Care team.

Maintain confidentiality with regard to information pertaining to patients and staff.

Deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care

Communication

Communicate effectively with patients and families regarding complex information about their care.

Provide advice and information to patients, carers and their families where appropriate.

Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, allied health professionals and operational staff to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated service.

Promote and demonstrate effective communication networks within the organisation, with partner organisations and other service providers.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

• It is the responsibility of all employees to work with managers to achieve a healthy and safe environment, and to take reasonable care of themselves and others.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• It is the responsibility of all employees to support Networks vision for sustainable development. To undertake their dutiesin a way that is not wasteful of environment, financial and social resources.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

• It is the responsibility of all employees to support the organisations vision of promoting a positive approach to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of Equality & Diversity Strategies and Policies.

REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974

• This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

• As an employee you will have access to information that is sensitive to either an individual or to the Organisation and you are reminded that in accordance with the requirements of Information Governance, NHS Code of Confidentiality, Data Protection Act 1998 and also the terms and conditions in your contract of employment, you have a duty to process this information judiciously and lawfully; failure to do so may result in disciplinary action.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• The Organisation is committed to providing a high quality service through the effective management and development of its employees. The Performance Appraisal process ensures that The Organisation is able to achieve its key aims of delivering cost effective, high quality and responsive healthcare, whilst enabling employees to understand how the outcome of their contribution fits within these overall aims.

STATUTORY AND MANDATORY TRAINING

• The Organisation will assess the requirements for Statutory and Mandatory training for all new staff prior to commencement and aims to ensure that all Statutory and Mandatory training requirements are completed during the first 2 weeks of commencement.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS

• The Organisation is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults within its care. As an employee you are accountable to ensure that you know how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. The organisation will support you in this process by providing training, support and advice.

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• All employees are expected to follow consistently high standards in the prevention and control of infection, especially with reference to hand hygiene, adherence to dress/uniform code and for clinical staff all procedures involving aseptic technique. Participate in mandatory training and annual updates. Protecting patients from infection is everyones responsibility.

SMOKE-FREE POLICY

• The Organisation operates a Smoke-free policy. This means that smoking is not permitted anywhere within any of the premises. In the interests of promoting responsible healthcare all staff are to refrain from smoking when off-site in uniform or wearing an identifying badge in any public place.

CONFIDENTIALITY

• In the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information of a personal and/or clinical nature, including information relating to the Organisation, its clients, patients, employees and other parties.

You must not use such information for your own benefit nor disclose it to other persons without the consent of the Organisation and the party concerned unless required to do so by law. This applies both during and after the termination of your employment. Any breach of confidentiality during employment may be regarded as serious misconduct and could lead to summary dismissal

REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974

• This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.

DATA PROTECTION

• As your employer, The Organisation needs to keep information about you for purposes connected with your employment. The sort of information we will hold includes information for payroll purposes, references, contact names and addresses and records relating to your career with The Organisation . These uses are covered by our notification with the Information Commissioners Office under the Data Protection Act 1998.

The information which we hold will be for our management and administrative use only but we may need to disclose some information we hold about you to relevant third parties (e.g. Inland Revenue).

RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

• As an employee, you are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create or use as part of you work within The Organisation and they remain the property of The Organisation. This includes patient, financial, personal and administrative records, whether paper based or on computer. All such records are considered public records and you have a legal duty of confidence to all service users. All staff have a responsibility to ensure information quality standards are achieved.

INFORMATION SECURITY

• Under the provisions of the Data Protection act, it is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that all personal data relating to patients and members of staff, whether held in manual or electronic format, is kept secure at all times. Computer passwords must not be shared either between systems or users. The Organisation may monitor e-mail messages, any files stored on the networks or on equipment and usage of the Internet, NHS.net and computer systems, irrespective of whether these relate to trust or personal use.

Access and usage of The Organisations computers must be in accordance with The Organisations policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• Registered Nurse
• Post Graduate diploma or degree (Advanced Practice Qualification)
• Qualified Nurse Prescriber
• Qualified Triage Nurse
• Experience in a Primary Care Setting
• Desirable
• Minor illness Qualification

Desirable

• Minor illness Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a primary care environment
• Experience of Chronic Disease management
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication review's

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 St Vincent Practice

Address

St. Vincent Medical Centre

77 Thorne Road

Doncaster

South Yorkshire

DN1 2ET

Employer's website

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