Job summary
An Exciting Opportunity: Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Paramedic at Forest Health Care (4-6 Sessions)
Forest Health Care is seeking a dynamic, motivated, and adaptable team player to join our practice as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Paramedic.
The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse, paramedic, or allied health professional with a non-medical prescribing qualification and experience in a broad scope of practice.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check
Main duties of the job
Our Clinical Practitioners provide care through the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge or referral of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed injury/illness, or acute exacerbation of existing conditions. You will assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of patient care across the whole system of health and social care, working in partnership with all relevant stakeholders.
The key elements of the role include but are not limited to:
- Working as an autonomous practitioner providing clinical assessment, diagnosis (where possible), and treatment (where appropriate) for adult and paediatric patients invited to attend Primary Care Centres or during remote consultations.
- Accurately triaging & prioritising all patients, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event / illness including past medical and drug history.
- Undertaking home visits to patients who are unable to travel to a primary care centre.
- Referring patients to alternative care settings, where appropriate.
- Supporting with triage of calls that have come via the NHS111 pathway during the core daytime surgery opening hours.
- To work as part of the clinical team of GPs, Primary Care Pharmacists, Specialist Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and other associated roles.
Please note that the support of a senior clinician is always available.
About us
Our 3 partner practice has a patient population of over 11500+ patients and a staff of 3 further salaried GPs, 3 ANPs and a full complement of nurses, HCAs, dispensers, receptionists and admin staff all working alongside a growing number of additional PCN roles.
Based in the Forest of Dean, our Cinderford surgery serves the surrounding town and rural communities. In spacious, environmentally friendly new premises, we occupy the first purpose-built, dementia-friendly surgery in the UK. Patients can also access a full range of services at our branch site in the local village of Ruardean & Westbury-on-Severn
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
You will work with the GPs to manage patients throughout
the day who present with urgent requests and needs, requiring on-the-day
assessment.
You will work within the practice team to deliver care
co-ordination to patients identified as at-risk, with the aim of avoiding wherever
possible hospital admission and to ensure that patients receive the requisite
care in the most appropriate setting.
You
will manage the process of clinical care co-ordination, undertaking surgery
consultations and home visits. The provision of clinical input will be at the
discretion of the GP partners. Clinical
input could include aspects of managing long-term conditions holistically.
You will contribute to the identification of patients at
risk of emergency hospital admissions, using of risk stratification tools as
well as identification through GPs and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
You will ensure that follow-up and proactive planning
takes place for at risk patients being discharged from acute care.
You will provide organisational support to the Practice which
may include planning, implementing and evaluating care plans for patients on
behalf of the Practice. You will need to
liaise with the GPs in the process of writing any care plans and will ensure such
plans are agreed with patients and shared appropriately.
You will be a point of contact for patients, carers and
their families in relation to clinical management and care plans; you will
signpost and liaise with other agencies including the voluntary sector on their
behalf.
You will:
- Act as an autonomous clinician within competencies with the
full support of our clinical team.
- Ensure your clinical practice is safe
and effective, and remains within boundaries of competence.
- Undertake daily visits, including any
emergency visits that arise, as
requested by the doctors.
- Clinically examine and assess patient
needs from a psychological perspective, and plan clinical
care accordingly
- Take a comprehensive patient history,
carry out physical examinations and use expert knowledge and clinical judgment
to identify the potential diagnosis
- Refer patients for investigations
and/or the appropriate specialist care where appropriate
- Use your experience to plan and provide
skilled and competent care to meet patients health and social care needs,
involving other members of the wider health care team as appropriate
- Ensure the provision of continuity of
care including the planning of follow-up consultations or visits
- Assess and evaluate with patients, the
effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and propose changes when indicated
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of
self-care
- Read OOH reports and hospital discharge
letters, act on information therein.
- Follow up any complex hospital
discharges on the next working day, including a visit to the patient if
required
- Provide care for the presenting patient
including initial history taking, recording observations, clinical assessment,
diagnosis, evaluation and treatment recommendations
- Demonstrate safe, clinical
decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills
- Prioritise and triage the needs of
patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the
appropriate manner
- Participate in chronic disease
management
- Discuss as appropriate any referral with a GP,
where a referral to secondary care is indicated.
Liaising with patients, families and carers
- Ensure
that all patients with a care plan know how to contact the appropriate help in
times of need and act as a focal point of communication between them and other
clinical and non-clinical members of the practice and community team.
- Understand
and facilitate clinical activity as required to ensure optimal and timely
clinical care is delivered to patients.
- Act as an information resource for patients, multi-disciplinary
colleagues and other stakeholders.
Interfacing
with other agencies
- Liaise
with other agencies to enact care plans for patients. Direct and refer individuals, families and carers to the most
appropriate agencies / services to support the implementation of their care
plans.
- Contribute to the evaluation of patient outcomes using clinical
experience and other patient experience tools.
- Actively participate in clinical discussions at multi-disciplinary
meetings optimising clinical reasoning skills and other areas of
provision.
- Maintain
a strong working interface between the GPs, Practice Team, District Nurse Team
and other key stakeholders, offering clinical support and advice to patients on
at-risk lists.
- Support
patients and help to develop and initiate self-management plans.
- Communicate
self-management plans to other health care providers who may be involved in the
acute care provision.
- Create
and maintain contacts with voluntary organisations that may be able to
help/support their cohort of patients e.g. Age Concern, Alzheimers Support,
local Link schemes.
- Sign-post
patients with administrative issues related to daily living to Social Services
or Citizens Advice; consider a referral to the Social Prescribing service.
Clinical Governance
- Take an active clinical role in the processes for monitoring and
improving the quality of care provided to patients. This includes risk
management, clinical audit and compliance with CQC requirements.
- Understand, identify and appropriately refer any safeguarding
concerns.
- Ensure that patients receive the information they need and are
treated with dignity and respect.
- Co-operate with carrying out risk assessments and must adhere to
safe systems of work. This includes understanding and adhering to the reporting
procedures for clinical and non-clinical incidents/near misses. Post holder
must attend relevant courses and mandatory updates, take a pro-active role in
contributing to risk identification and management and be responsive to lessons
learned from incidents and near misses.
- Report clinical and non-clinical incidents to Practice Manager,
GPs and proactively manage risk to
vulnerable adults.
- Promote an environment conducive to effective learning and to
comply with statutory and mandatory responsibilities in line with current Local
and National Monitoring requirements.
Managing and using Information
- Maintain accurate legible and contemporaneous records and written
reports in line with Practice Policies and procedures and professional codes of
conduct. This will include accurate
documentation on clinical IT systems and electronic reporting systems.
- Ensure the maintenance of an accurate computerised database of at
risk patients and input activity and outcomes measures in order to support
service development and meet contractual requirements.
Management
- Organise
and manage your own time according to delegated workload.
- Work
independently and autonomously, providing, support and advice to individuals,
within guidelines and protocols identified for the role
Quality/Clinical
Governance/Research and Audit
- Maintain
accurate and cotemporaneous records
- Record
activity on a clinical data base for both Practice and the ICB.
- Assist
in the monitoring and protecting of groups and individuals whose health and
well-being may be at risk e.g.: vulnerable adults.
- Practice
the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with
Practice Policy, procedures and regulatory bodies guidelines
Individual
Patient Care
- Undertake specific clinical tasks as recognised from the
preliminary clinical assessment and as
appropriately delegated from other clinicians within primary care and
neighbourhood teams.
- Ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are
documented.
- Enable patients to reach their optimum level of
independence.
- Meet a range of patient and carer needs, including
clinical interventions where appropriate in order to prevent hospital admission
or reduce length of stay.
- Communicate with individuals about routine and daily
activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (eg. hearing/language)
Other
Factors
- Uniform
may need to be worn.
- The
post is based at Forest Health Care GP Practice but will involve travel across
the area, including lone working; you will need to have your own vehicle and
appropriate car insurance.
In
addition to the duties and responsibilities listed above, the post-holder may
be required to assist with covering nursing staff during absence and to also perform
other duties assigned by the GPs or Practice Manager when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
You will work with the GPs to manage patients throughout
the day who present with urgent requests and needs, requiring on-the-day
assessment.
You will work within the practice team to deliver care
co-ordination to patients identified as at-risk, with the aim of avoiding wherever
possible hospital admission and to ensure that patients receive the requisite
care in the most appropriate setting.
You
will manage the process of clinical care co-ordination, undertaking surgery
consultations and home visits. The provision of clinical input will be at the
discretion of the GP partners. Clinical
input could include aspects of managing long-term conditions holistically.
You will contribute to the identification of patients at
risk of emergency hospital admissions, using of risk stratification tools as
well as identification through GPs and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
You will ensure that follow-up and proactive planning
takes place for at risk patients being discharged from acute care.
You will provide organisational support to the Practice which
may include planning, implementing and evaluating care plans for patients on
behalf of the Practice. You will need to
liaise with the GPs in the process of writing any care plans and will ensure such
plans are agreed with patients and shared appropriately.
You will be a point of contact for patients, carers and
their families in relation to clinical management and care plans; you will
signpost and liaise with other agencies including the voluntary sector on their
behalf.
You will:
- Act as an autonomous clinician within competencies with the
full support of our clinical team.
- Ensure your clinical practice is safe
and effective, and remains within boundaries of competence.
- Undertake daily visits, including any
emergency visits that arise, as
requested by the doctors.
- Clinically examine and assess patient
needs from a psychological perspective, and plan clinical
care accordingly
- Take a comprehensive patient history,
carry out physical examinations and use expert knowledge and clinical judgment
to identify the potential diagnosis
- Refer patients for investigations
and/or the appropriate specialist care where appropriate
- Use your experience to plan and provide
skilled and competent care to meet patients health and social care needs,
involving other members of the wider health care team as appropriate
- Ensure the provision of continuity of
care including the planning of follow-up consultations or visits
- Assess and evaluate with patients, the
effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and propose changes when indicated
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of
self-care
- Read OOH reports and hospital discharge
letters, act on information therein.
- Follow up any complex hospital
discharges on the next working day, including a visit to the patient if
required
- Provide care for the presenting patient
including initial history taking, recording observations, clinical assessment,
diagnosis, evaluation and treatment recommendations
- Demonstrate safe, clinical
decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills
- Prioritise and triage the needs of
patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the
appropriate manner
- Participate in chronic disease
management
- Discuss as appropriate any referral with a GP,
where a referral to secondary care is indicated.
Liaising with patients, families and carers
- Ensure
that all patients with a care plan know how to contact the appropriate help in
times of need and act as a focal point of communication between them and other
clinical and non-clinical members of the practice and community team.
- Understand
and facilitate clinical activity as required to ensure optimal and timely
clinical care is delivered to patients.
- Act as an information resource for patients, multi-disciplinary
colleagues and other stakeholders.
Interfacing
with other agencies
- Liaise
with other agencies to enact care plans for patients. Direct and refer individuals, families and carers to the most
appropriate agencies / services to support the implementation of their care
plans.
- Contribute to the evaluation of patient outcomes using clinical
experience and other patient experience tools.
- Actively participate in clinical discussions at multi-disciplinary
meetings optimising clinical reasoning skills and other areas of
provision.
- Maintain
a strong working interface between the GPs, Practice Team, District Nurse Team
and other key stakeholders, offering clinical support and advice to patients on
at-risk lists.
- Support
patients and help to develop and initiate self-management plans.
- Communicate
self-management plans to other health care providers who may be involved in the
acute care provision.
- Create
and maintain contacts with voluntary organisations that may be able to
help/support their cohort of patients e.g. Age Concern, Alzheimers Support,
local Link schemes.
- Sign-post
patients with administrative issues related to daily living to Social Services
or Citizens Advice; consider a referral to the Social Prescribing service.
Clinical Governance
- Take an active clinical role in the processes for monitoring and
improving the quality of care provided to patients. This includes risk
management, clinical audit and compliance with CQC requirements.
- Understand, identify and appropriately refer any safeguarding
concerns.
- Ensure that patients receive the information they need and are
treated with dignity and respect.
- Co-operate with carrying out risk assessments and must adhere to
safe systems of work. This includes understanding and adhering to the reporting
procedures for clinical and non-clinical incidents/near misses. Post holder
must attend relevant courses and mandatory updates, take a pro-active role in
contributing to risk identification and management and be responsive to lessons
learned from incidents and near misses.
- Report clinical and non-clinical incidents to Practice Manager,
GPs and proactively manage risk to
vulnerable adults.
- Promote an environment conducive to effective learning and to
comply with statutory and mandatory responsibilities in line with current Local
and National Monitoring requirements.
Managing and using Information
- Maintain accurate legible and contemporaneous records and written
reports in line with Practice Policies and procedures and professional codes of
conduct. This will include accurate
documentation on clinical IT systems and electronic reporting systems.
- Ensure the maintenance of an accurate computerised database of at
risk patients and input activity and outcomes measures in order to support
service development and meet contractual requirements.
Management
- Organise
and manage your own time according to delegated workload.
- Work
independently and autonomously, providing, support and advice to individuals,
within guidelines and protocols identified for the role
Quality/Clinical
Governance/Research and Audit
- Maintain
accurate and cotemporaneous records
- Record
activity on a clinical data base for both Practice and the ICB.
- Assist
in the monitoring and protecting of groups and individuals whose health and
well-being may be at risk e.g.: vulnerable adults.
- Practice
the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with
Practice Policy, procedures and regulatory bodies guidelines
Individual
Patient Care
- Undertake specific clinical tasks as recognised from the
preliminary clinical assessment and as
appropriately delegated from other clinicians within primary care and
neighbourhood teams.
- Ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are
documented.
- Enable patients to reach their optimum level of
independence.
- Meet a range of patient and carer needs, including
clinical interventions where appropriate in order to prevent hospital admission
or reduce length of stay.
- Communicate with individuals about routine and daily
activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (eg. hearing/language)
Other
Factors
- Uniform
may need to be worn.
- The
post is based at Forest Health Care GP Practice but will involve travel across
the area, including lone working; you will need to have your own vehicle and
appropriate car insurance.
In
addition to the duties and responsibilities listed above, the post-holder may
be required to assist with covering nursing staff during absence and to also perform
other duties assigned by the GPs or Practice Manager when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters certificate, diploma or full Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, Digital badge or RCN credentialed
- Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
- Minor illness qualification
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practice within the four pillars
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Good interpersonal skills with patients and staff.
- Experienced in working within a computerised environment.
- Experienced in working autonomously.
- Able to work under pressure and prioritise workload.
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- Clinical knowledge and skills (add/delete as applicable) including:
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting and processing pathology tests
- Advising patients accordingly
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine and childhood)
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
Other Requirements
Essential
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Right to work in the UK
- Occupational health clearance
- Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ANP
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters certificate, diploma or full Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, Digital badge or RCN credentialed
- Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
- Minor illness qualification
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practice within the four pillars
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Good interpersonal skills with patients and staff.
- Experienced in working within a computerised environment.
- Experienced in working autonomously.
- Able to work under pressure and prioritise workload.
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- Clinical knowledge and skills (add/delete as applicable) including:
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting and processing pathology tests
- Advising patients accordingly
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine and childhood)
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
Other Requirements
Essential
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Right to work in the UK
- Occupational health clearance
- Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ANP
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
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).