Advanced Nurse Practitioner/ECP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Five Valleys Medical Practice are recruiting an experienced ANP or ECP to join our Team. Working alongside and collaboratively with GPs and other practice colleagues, to clinically assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate care for patients of Five Valleys Medical Practice, Gloucestershire. The practice prides itself on facilitating access for patients to same day care, whilst allowing other colleagues to provide excellent ongoing and chronic condition management.

Responsibilities:

• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness.
• Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed, or over-the-counter medication on medication regimes, side-effects, and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.
• Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports
• Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate, supporting other colleagues to care navigate where indicated
• Other areas of relevant clinical importance as required

Team Working

Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working.

• Work as an effective and accountable team member, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
• Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.
• Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time management are embedded within the culture of the team.
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and polices impacting upon care delivery.
• Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.
• Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects with the clinical management team.
• Play an active role in the training and development of other team members

Communication

Utilise and demonstrate sensitive and compassionate communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to assessment and treatment.

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background, and preferred ways of communicating.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• Maintain effective communication within the practice environment and with external stakeholders.
• Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues.
• Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.
• Attend practice and external meetings as requested

Quality

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC or other professional body.

• Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures, using agreed templates and protocols wherever possible
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE and locally developed guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organization.
• Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Information Governance

• The post holder will adhere to the practices policies on Information Governance and will work to the highest standard to ensure risks to patient data and breaches to the Data Protection Act are minimised.

Health & Safety:

• The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Equality and Diversity:

• The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

• The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
• Attendance at the Protected Learning Time Meetings
• Attendance at all Mandatory and Statutory training requirements as indicated by the Practice Manager

Quality:

• The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision whilst embracing the practices ethos of recording of any errors or near misses and learning by mistakes without blame
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

• The post-holder will:

• Apply all Practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate

This Job Description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and will be reviewed annually in conjunction with the post-holder at the annual appraisal. The post-holder is also required to carry out any duties that may reasonably be requested by the Partners, Reception Manager or the Practice Manager.

We do not permit staff members to be registered as a patient at the surgery. Therefore, should you be a patient and are successful, you will be required to register elsewhere.

SUPERVISED AND MANAGED BY Practice manager and Clinical lead.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Have a GCSE grade A to C in Maths and English
• Practice within the four pillars
• Be educated to Masters level
• Hold an independent prescriber qualification
• Meet NMC revalidation requirements
• Demonstrate autonomous clinical practice
• Excellent communicator
• work effectively within a team
• Resilient and able to work under pressure
• Effective use of IT systems

Desirable

• Primary Care experience

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

Severn Health Primary Care Network

Address

Five Valleys Medical Practice

King Street

Stroud

Gloucestershire

GL5 3BS