Your role within our friendly surgery would be to work as an autonomous practitioner. You must be a prescriber, responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within your scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The advanced nurse practitioner will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in reviewing clinical policy and procedure.
Main duties of the job
* Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients.
* Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
* Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
* Request pathology services as necessary.
* Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required.
* Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
* Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
* Ensure read codes are used effectively.
* Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance.
* Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required.
* Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance.
* Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.).
* Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).
* Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
* Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
About us
We are a friendly, patient-focused surgery with a practice list size of just over 7,000 patients. The practice delivers outstanding patient care; we emphasise high-quality, compassionate healthcare, integrated team working within the practice and via the PCN.
The practice has an excellent complement of clinical and non-clinical team members who strive towards delivering the best patient care journey and non-clinical experts who deliver excellent admin services within the practice.
If you think you have the same ethics as above and would complement our team, then this could be the job for you.
Job responsibilities
All staff at Haden Vale Medical Practice have a duty to conform to the following:
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Post graduate diploma or degree (Advanced Practice Qualification)
* Qualified Nurse Prescriber
* Qualified Triage Nurse
* Teaching Qualification
* ALS, PALS
Clinical Knowledge & Skills
* Wound Care / Removal of sutures & staples
* ECGs
* Venepuncture
* New patient medicals
* Chaperone procedure
* Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
* Diabetes
* Asthma
* CHD
* Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
* Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
* Broad knowledge of clinical governance
* Ability to record accurate clinical notes
* Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
* Knowledge of health promotion strategies
* Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
* Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
* Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
Experience
* Experience of working in a primary care environment
* Experience of chronic disease management
* Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
* Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
Personal Qualities
* Polite and confident
* Flexible and cooperative
* Motivated, forward thinker
* Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
* High levels of integrity and loyalty
* Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
* Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
* Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
* Commitment to ongoing professional development
* Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
Other requirements
* Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
* Occupational Health Clearance
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.
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
#J-18808-Ljbffr