Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Closing date is 15 September 2023

Job summary

Work for a progressive PCN based near Stockport, Cheshire. This is a 30 hour a week role working out of 2 of our practices in Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall.

The post holder will be an experienced nurse practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the practice. You will be working as part of the GP clinical team across practices within the PCN.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an experienced nurse practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the practice. You will be working as part of the GP clinical team across practices within the PCN.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical 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 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

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.

Provide the choice of direct access to a nurse practitioner, both in the Practice and over the telephone, for the general practice population

Make home visits to those who are too unwell to come into the clinic in person

Make professionally autonomous decisions for which you are accountable

Provide assistance to GPs seeing and treating patients referred to you as appropriate

Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports

Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care

Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an ongoing plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care

Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills

Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate

Work with the team within the Practice, and across the wider NHS, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care

Contribute to the practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery

Participate in identification of community health needs and develop patient/family-centred strategies to address them

Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services

Person Specification

Experience - Essential

Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Experience of working in Primary Care

Ability to prioritise and organise own case load

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Ability to evaluate and implement appropriate clinical service developments.

Ability to use in house Patient Databases.

Experience of working within a team.

Willingness to undertake further training as required.

To effectively communicate with different groups and individuals in various situations.

To be able to form good working relationships with people from a wide range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

To be able to plan and organise your own workload and manage your time.

To be able to contribute to the team and its overall effectiveness.

To share skills, expertise and ideas with the team

To act as a Senior responsible colleague to the nursing team

Qualifications

Essential

Masters qualification for Advanced Clinical Practice or similar accreditation

Independent Prescribing qualification

NMC registration

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.