Enhanced Practitioner - Complex Wound Management
This job is a part-time position, but full-time hours may be considered for a candidate with the appropriate additional skills. Details will be discussed during the interview.
Hours worked during practice hours: 8am - 6.30pm
Are you an experienced Nurse professional with advanced skills in complex wound care?
This is a new role, so an exciting time to join North Cumbria Primary Care and add real value to the service and patient care.
We are a friendly and supportive team looking for a highly motivated Enhanced Practitioner who possesses extensive wound care experience to join our primary care team. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact on patient care, delivering expert assessment, treatment, and management of complex wounds, including pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and surgical wounds.
Main Duties of the Job
Responsible for ensuring that all patients attending the practice for wound care are effectively and efficiently triaged, clearly identifying those that need to be seen as a priority and that patients are seen by the right staff member with the appropriate level of competence.
Make and receive referrals for patients with compromised tissue viability, from nurses, general practitioners, consultants, and other health professionals.
Be available to offer expert advice on all aspects of wound care, providing clinical advice and support to staff in meeting the standards and protocols in delivery of care.
Provide ongoing assessment and management of venous disease.
Assess for and advise on compression bandaging and hosiery.
To assess selected patients, taking a full comprehensible history, carrying out comprehensive clinical examinations, making diagnoses, and providing treatment where necessary.
To be responsible for the follow-up of the patients under their care.
Ability to use diagnostic tests where appropriate, for example, the Doppler.
Be available to offer expert advice to other clinical staff on all aspects of wound management, providing clinical advice and support to staff in meeting the standards in the delivery of care.
Attend educational classes in relevant areas and effective wound management and keep up to date with current changes and new advances/treatments in wound care.
About Us
North Cumbria Primary Care Ltd (NCPC) is an innovative not-for-profit social enterprise, established to create a network of great surgeries which sustains and supports the development of general practice across the local area. We enable our member general practices to continue to operate as local family practices with the benefit of a large and robust infrastructure to provide support. Primary Care in Workington is currently going through a major transformational redesign of our clinical model to develop and sustain primary care services, support new ways of working to increase efficiency and improve patient experience of the services we deliver.
Job Responsibilities
The Enhanced Practitioner will have highly developed specialist skills and advanced knowledge in complex wound management and will have significant clinical experience in this area. As an autonomous practitioner, they will undertake independent consultations with patients attending with specific symptoms within the post holder's specialist scope of practice. They will assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, treat, and follow up patients as required.
The Enhanced Practitioner will use clinical decision-making within a scope of practice and be responsible for leading wound care in the Practice. You will be an expert resource for practice staff and will ensure the delivery of evidence-based care in relation to all aspects of tissue viability, including leg ulcer management.
The enhanced level of practice includes freedom to act and practice autonomously within the professional scope of practice.
Person Specification
Job Related Requirements
* Have the ability to prioritise workload
* Ability to be flexible and responsive to service needs
* Excellent attendance record
Personal Skills and Attributes
* An understanding, acceptance, and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
* Must be personable, polite, and approachable
* Must be a team player
* Able to work under pressure and remain calm
* Adaptable to change
* Aware of own limitations
* Good organisational and interpersonal skills are essential
Professional Knowledge
* Proven experience in managing complex and chronic wounds
* Advanced nursing skills in the assessment, planning, and evaluation of patients with wound management needs
* Ability to manage patients who have complex dressings
* Working independently and autonomously within their own scope of practice
* Excellent communication (orally and written) and listening skills
* To have experienced IT skills
* Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* Ability to keep accurate records
* Ability to plan own day-to-day work schedule
* Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
* Ability to effectively manage challenging behaviour and/or conflict
* Experience of working in a primary care setting would be beneficial
* Knowledge in EMIS and Accurx systems
Qualifications
* NMC registered
* V150 Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing qualification
* Significant experience and qualifications related to their specialist area, i.e., leg ulcer management, tissue viability
* Clinical assessment and consultation skills or equivalent master's modules
* V300 independent prescribing qualification or be required to undertake this following successful completion of probationary period
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.
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