Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To lead on care home patients and frailty patients delivering a service over the telephone, digitally and face-to-face.

Take and record a patients history including medical, family, and social history, talking to the patient, relatives, or other carer as appropriate. There may be significant barrier to understanding and acceptance due to sensitive or contentious information given and received.

Conducts a comprehensive clinical examination of the patient including a physical examination of all systems and a mental health assessment as required.

To recognise the need to initiate and where appropriate interpret relevant diagnostic investigations.

To recognise the need for and initiate where appropriate advice from or referral to relevant specialisms.

To have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively, whilst applying high level decision-making and assessment skills to formulate appropriate differential diagnoses based on synthesis of clinical findings

Formulates an action plan for the treatment of the patient, synthesising clinical information based on the patients presentation, history, clinical assessment and findings from relevant investigations, using appropriate evidence-based practice

Prescribe treatment including medications as a Non-medical Prescriber based on a sound knowledge of pharmacology, whilst considering and Implementing non-pharmacological related interventions/therapies, dependent on situation and technical requirements of care

To maintain appropriate clinical records, ensuring that documentation clearly demonstrates the NMC Guidelines for Records and Record keeping.

Independent Prescriber.

Actively engage in MDT meetings.

To work within the parameters of his/her skills and knowledge, to recognise the limitations of ones own practice and to work within the bounds of ones training and capability according to the NMC Code of Conduct.

To maintain an awareness of developments in clinical practice.

Clinical Governance

To participate in the clinical governance requirements within the Spirit Healthcare Ltd framework.

To practice with the parameters of company policies, protocols and guidelines.

To participate in quality improvement within the organisation.

To assess and evaluate outcomes of own practice, service intervention and treatment and identify any short falls in service reporting to relevant managers.

To ensure the requirements of Health and Safety and Information Governance legislation appropriate EU Directives and COSHH regulations are maintained.

To participate in research and development activities of Spirit Healthcare Ltd.

Innovate, develop, and lead evidence based clinical practice and professional development

Contribute to the development of local policies in relation to the implementation of national and regional strategies

Practice within the Legal & Ethical framework as established by Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC)

Performance is monitored on an ongoing basis and is appraised annually.

Education Practice Development

To participate in the clinical supervision framework for nurses within Spirit Healthcare Ltd.

To offer appropriate advice to nurses and other professions on care practices, delivery and service development within the parameters of the role and scope of practice.

To participate in the ongoing individual professional development within the organisation

To access the mandatory training programme.

Maintain professional practice through continuing education, professional updating and when/where available, involvement with professional specialist groups.

Supports with teaching and mentoring of undergraduate nursing students, graduate nurse practitioner students, and other members of the healthcare team as appropriate (eg physiotherapy, radiology, FY2 medical staff).

Actively promote and disseminate research-based practice.

Audit current practice and negotiate appropriate changes to practice.

Participate in relevant research / audit projects to service and practice needs and in line with nursing research strategy

Provide support for staff undertaking research, audit or teaching activities.

Organisational/Managerial:

Organise own time in line with agreed job plan.

Accountable for the effective management of resources including stores supplies pharmacy and maintenance of equipment.

Contribute to strategic issues relating to the nurse practitioner service and the specialty.

Act in a collaborative and advisory role to share knowledge and expertise to help deliver high standards of patient care.

Promote the development of a flexible and skilled nursing workforce.

Contribute to the wider Corporate agenda where appropriate.

• Familiarising yourself and adhering to all Company Policies and Procedures, including our Equal Opportunities Policy.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with care home and frailty patients.
• Understands the regulatory requirements, codes and guidance of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and works to these.
• To maintain professional and clinical competence through mechanisms of continuing professional development.
• To have excellent interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and be committed to working as part of a team.
• Work as a champion in the interests of patients/staff through the application of ethical, legal and professional knowledge and skills.
• Ability to work autonomously with confidence to make decisions independently
• Ability to engage and communicate effectively with patients/stakeholders
• Critical thinking and negotiation skills
• Dealing with sensitive and complex information
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written skills
• Competent in use of electronic systems e.g .EMIS, SystmOne, CRIS etc.
• Ability to motivate others to increase engagement and morale whilst promoting confidence and public trust
• Ability to build working relationships that promotes both the profession and organisation (not limited to colleagues, CCG, external professional network, clinical staff in primary care services).

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified/working towards appropriate Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice

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

Spirit Health Group Limited

Address

Beaumont Leys Health Centre

1 Little Wood Close

Leicester

LE4 0UZ

Employer's website

https://www.spirit-health.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)