Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Paramedic Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To practice at an advanced level, working as an autonomous practitioner within the MDT to deliver high quality urgent care to patients.

As an experienced Advanced Nurse/Paramedic Practitioner you will take responsibility and be accountable in assessing, diagnosing, treating, and referring patients, considering local and national guidelines.

Where appropriate, make referrals to other health professionals in primary and secondary care.

As an independent prescriber, prescribe medicines in accordance with NMC/HCPC guidance and national policy guidance.

Request and interpret tests appropriate to patients needs.

Intervene appropriately to assist the patient with urgent health care needs and prioritise as required to give effective emergency care.

Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient needs and administer medication safely in accordance with NMP and medicines management policies.

Provide information and advice on prescribed and non-prescription medication, medication regimes, side effects and interactions.

Ensure full and accurate documentation of clinical history, physical examination, diagnosis, and treatment plan is included in patient notes.

Work with patients to support compliance and adherence to prescribed treatments.

Take responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and work with other team members to ensure they are protected.

Communication

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 communication barriers and act to improve communication.

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

Always ensure privacy and dignity for patients.

Provide effective communication with all staff and external stakeholders to exchange and disseminate information.

Provide information and advice for patients on discharge ensuring awareness of sources of guidance and support and provide information in an acceptable format for patients recognising any difficulties and refer where appropriate.

Quality

Prioritise, organise, and manage workload to maintain and promote quality.

Promote evidence based clinical practice according to current guidelines and maintain an appreciation of current legal and professional issues.

Support research and audit as a means of evaluating the quality of work delivered by self and the team to improve the experience for patients.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through clinical supervision, benchmarking and formal evaluation and collaborate with other clinical teams to improve the quality of health care responding to national and local policies as appropriate.

Actively promote diversity, including race diversity in the delivery of services.

Generate and sustain the promotion of privacy and dignity, rights and responsibilities and take action to address any issues.

Follow consistently high standards of infection control practice in accordance with national and Trust policy especially with reference to hand hygiene and other procedures relevant to their work.

Personal Development

Identify own professional development needs and participate in regular performance review taking responsibility for own learning and performance.

Work effectively with others in the service to clearly define values, direction and policies which may impact on care delivery and support others to explore and develop new ways of working

Participate in statutory and mandatory training.

Show awareness of requirements regarding health and safety, risk management and complaints.

Demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of national, local, and service issues.

Prioritise own workload to ensure effective time management strategies are embedded within the work.

Work effectively and responsibly within the team to support others and explore new ways of working.

Delegate clearly and appropriately to ensure the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence are followed.

Show responsibility by ensuring own practice complies with Data Protection, Confidentiality and Caldicott principles.

Agree plans and outcomes to measure quality of own work.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Evidence of undertaking audit and developing action plans
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to communicate highly complex information and situations including where there are barriers to understanding
• Ability to lead and participate in the integration of multi-agency services
• Able to analyse and use information to inform practice and service needs
• Computer literate
• Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to teamworking

Desirable

• Research awareness skills
• Proven ability to identify, develop and implement risk management and clinical governance systems at an expert level

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Demonstrates an enthusiastic and flexible approach
• Ability to travel between sites
• Ability to be flexible with working days/hours

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Paramedic
• Post-registration Advanced Clinical Study
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Current NMC/HCPC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• To have undertaken accredited courses which enable Advanced Practitioner registration

Desirable

• To have undertaken study at masters level
• Experience of teaching and delivering seminars
• Qualification in teaching and assessing
• Leadership/management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-registration experience
• Experience of working in primary or community health setting
• Experience of complex case management
• Demonstrate a high level of clinical skills
• Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge and experience of clinical examination, history taking, pharmacology, pathophysiology, etc
• Experience of instigating and interpreting investigations and initiating appropriate plans of care for patients
• Experience of promoting self-care
• Cultural awareness
• Experience of multi-agency working across service interfaces

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).