Job summary
To be responsible for the delivery of nursing services, working as part
of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of
practice to the entitled patient population. The nurse practitioner will be
responsible for a number of clinical areas primarily acute presentations, also
including health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, as
well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and
procedure.
Main duties of the job
Provide a triage service, actively managing or referring patients or
treating patients within own scope of practice.
Highly developed specialist knowledge and understanding of LTC, health
behaviours, minor illness and interventions to improve health outcomes,
including the use of technologies to support patients at home.
Advanced knowledge and skills in therapeutics to prescribe effective
pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches for the management of
specific acute and LTCs and assess patient concordance.
Build capacity and capability to support learning in practice settings
and collaborate with education service providers and education commissioners to
ensure workforce and student needs are met.
Enhanced critical thinking and ability to critically analyse a broad
range of policies, literature and evidence to support clinical practice.
Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary,
referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required. Maintain chronic
disease registers.
Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant
legislation.
Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
Recognise, assess and refer patients with community health needs,
developing strategies for effective care pathways.
Liaise with external services to ensure the patient is
supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance
with local and national policies.
About us
We are a progressive and friendly GP training Practice and are offering
an exciting opportunity to work within our practice located in Harrow.
We have committed teams consisting of the following roles - GPs, nurses,
HCA, pharmacists, first contact physio and admin members.
We commend ourselves on our team spirit and ethos and whilst working
under immense pressure, we deliver care of a high standard.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If an independent prescriber, prescribe in a safe an effective manner,
in accordance with PGD and extant legislation. Ensuring you prescribe within
your competencies.
Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle.
Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of
medications.
Contribute to the implementation of an effective training programme for
staff and students within the practice.
Provide clinical supervision for the nursing team.
Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient
care.
Support and participate in shared learning within the practice.
Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies
and initiatives where appropriate
Be aware of and contribute to the planning and implementation of ICB patient pathway initiatives.
Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a
structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA).
Maintain
professional registration and adhere to revalidation requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If an independent prescriber, prescribe in a safe an effective manner,
in accordance with PGD and extant legislation. Ensuring you prescribe within
your competencies.
Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle.
Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of
medications.
Contribute to the implementation of an effective training programme for
staff and students within the practice.
Provide clinical supervision for the nursing team.
Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient
care.
Support and participate in shared learning within the practice.
Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies
and initiatives where appropriate
Be aware of and contribute to the planning and implementation of ICB patient pathway initiatives.
Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a
structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA).
Maintain
professional registration and adhere to revalidation requirements.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working at Advanced Nurse Practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and adult policies and procedures and how to apply them
- Autonomous Practitioner
- Management of minor illness minor ailments and injuries
- Experience of nurse triage
- Physical assessment and clinical examination skills
- Management of patients with long term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Experience of compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Leadership in quality initiates such as clinical benchmarking
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Wound Care / Removal of sutures & staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension.
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
- Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
- Understands the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
- Clinical leadership skills
- Strong IT skills
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- High level communication skills (written and oral)
- Research knowledge and understanding
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Ability to undertake audit
- Ability to communicate difficult information to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Experience with au
- Experience with clinical risk management
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Part 1 NMC
- NMC mentorship Qualification
- Registered Nurse Part 1 NMC
- NMC mentorship Qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working at Advanced Nurse Practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and adult policies and procedures and how to apply them
- Autonomous Practitioner
- Management of minor illness minor ailments and injuries
- Experience of nurse triage
- Physical assessment and clinical examination skills
- Management of patients with long term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Experience of compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Leadership in quality initiates such as clinical benchmarking
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Wound Care / Removal of sutures & staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension.
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
- Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
- Understands the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
- Clinical leadership skills
- Strong IT skills
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- High level communication skills (written and oral)
- Research knowledge and understanding
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Ability to undertake audit
- Ability to communicate difficult information to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Experience with au
- Experience with clinical risk management
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Part 1 NMC
- NMC mentorship Qualification
- Registered Nurse Part 1 NMC
- NMC mentorship Qualification
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).
Additional information
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).
