PCN Advanced Clinical Practitioner Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.

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 condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.

Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning, cervical cytology, or sexual health consultation.

Assess, identify, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.

Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.

Advise, support, and administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad, where appropriate.

Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.

Undertake minor surgery as appropriate to competence.

Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person; and

Complete 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.

Communication:

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

Leadership personal and people development:

Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services ensuring that the needs of the patient are a priority.

Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.

Support staff development in order to maximise potential.

Work with management to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix are available to meet current and future service delivery, that selection and recruitment processes are effective and that equality of treatment of the team incorporates quality HR principles and processes.

Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.

Management of Risk:

Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients

Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. Oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements where appropriate.

Learning and development:

Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.

Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences).

Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree level in the relevant area of expertise.
• Be working at a masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.

Experience

Essential

• You will be a Registered General Practice Nurse (currently registered with the NMC) and an independent nurse prescriber
• Able to work with a high degree of autonomy and as part of a larger team
• Confident in leading in a variety of settings
• 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
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, you will embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
• IT literate with proficient use of practice systems

Desirable

• Clinical systems trained (EMIS)
• Previous experience in UK general 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

North West Surrey Integrated care services

Address

Hillview Medical Centre

3 Heathside Road

Woking

Surrey

GU22 7QP

Employer's website

https://www.nicsfed.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)