Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage and, as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
• Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions, identifying red flags and underlying serious pathology, and taking appropriate action.
• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
• To have completed the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.
• Work within practices, across the PCN and ICS, multi organisational, cross professional and across care pathways.
• Flexible skill set to adapt to and meet needs of the PCN population and support public health.
• High level of complex decision making to inform diagnosis, investigation complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Manage medical complexity.
• Lead audit and research projects.
• Lead QOF within areas of capability.
• Multi-professional ACP clinical and CPD supervision across all 4 pillars with relevant training.
• Lead education in own area of expertise.
• Enable, facilitate and support change across care pathways and traditional boundaries.

Person Specification

About the Candidate

Essential

• be a Registered General Practice Nurse (currently registered with the NMC).
• hold a recognised ANP qualification at Masters level and work as an Independent Nurse Prescriber.
• be able to work with a high degree of autonomy and be confident in leading in a variety of settings.
• demonstrate the ability to lead others, enabling you to use and further develop your teaching and mentoring experience/qualifications.
• be forward thinking and strive to develop innovative ideas and new ways of working, that address the health needs of the practice, whilst motivating and encouraging others to do the same.
• be an excellent communicator and collaborator, who looks to embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
• be consistently compassionate and respectful placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
• demonstrate highly developed clinical skills.

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

Primary Care Careers

Address

The Surgery

91 Rushbottom Lane

Benfleet

Essex

SS7 4EA

Employer's website

https://www.essexprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)