Advanced Practitioner - Northamptonshire

Job responsibilities

What your typical day looks like:

• Provide autonomous, advanced clinical care
• Assess, diagnose, treat, and refer patients effectively
• Conduct and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations
• Maintain high-quality clinical records
• Working as a part of a team and collaborating with other members of staff within DHU

To be a successful Advanced Practitioner youll need:

• Registered and practicing with a Professional Body
• Registered as a non-medical prescriber, practicing post qualification for 6-months
• Have a minimum of two Level 7 modules, including Minor Illness OR Major Illness
• Have experience working in either Primary Care or Urgent Care
• Have autonomous practice in multi-professional teams

Skills & Knowledge, Job Circumstances & Personal Qualities

Essential

• - Can complete a concise clinical history and physical examination.
• - Can formulate a differential diagnosis and management plan.
• - Prepared to participate in service development
• - Demonstrable awareness of accountability in clinical practice
• - Can give evidence of using effective communication skills within practice
• - Must have excellent verbal and written skills
• - Computer literate
• - Is able to use negotiation skills, employing critical thinking.
• - Ability to identify individual client needs
• - Able to prioritize, effective time management.
• - Commitment to lifelong learning
• - Counselling & communication skills
• - Facilitation & negotiation skills
• - Aware of current structures and developments in out of hours care, health and social care
• - Specialist clinical/Technical skills
• - Commitment to the role. Able to work unsocial hours including bank holidays
• - Flexibility to meet service/Rota needs
• - Be prepared to travel between different primary Care Sites when on duty.
• - Full driving license essential (LLR Home Visiting Service only)
• - Proven team player
• - Able to work autonomously
• - Committed to continuing professional development
• - Positive effect
• - High level of interpersonal skills
• - Willingness to continue with additional training to achieve a full MSc in advanced clinical practice.

Desirable

• - A selection of specific sites may require skills in the following areas
• - ALS / PALS
• - Cannulation and Venepuncture
• - ECG recording and interpretation
• - Plastering
• - Suturing and wound closure
• - IRMER & X-Ray interpretation.
• - Pathology interpretation
• - Telephone triage
• - Full driving Licence (All other DHU Health Care CIC divisions)

Experience

Essential

• - Substantial Autonomous practice working and multi-professional team
• - Can show evidence of using autonomous physical examination and assessment skills in practice
• - Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children
• - Has experience in one of the following: nurse led clinics, emergency care centres ,out of hours facilities or walk in centres
• - Consolidated Independent Prescribing experience.

Desirable

• - Experience of telephone triage
• - Experience of Emergency Care
• - Experience of General Practice

Qualifications

Essential

• - Registered Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), Paramedic registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• - Registered as an independent non medical prescriber.
• - A minimum of 2 modules at level 7 preferably minor illness & minor injury
• Educated to Masters level award or equivalent

Desirable

• - MSc (Advanced Practice)
• - Mentorship qualification

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).