Vine Medical Group is recruiting for a full or part time Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our Same Day Care Team.
Our new team member will work both independently and within a multi-disciplinary team environment, to provide safe, holistic care to our patients. This will include remote and face-to-face appointments, reactive and proactive home care visits. You will be required to work within your professional competence and boundaries to provide both urgent and planned care to patients. You will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients, making any necessary referrals for investigations or to secondary care in the appropriate manner.
This role is particularly suited to an autonomous clinician with a proven track record of delivering high-quality care within the Primary Care setting with experience in dealing with a wide range of minor ailments.
Please note that we reserve the right to close applications for this vacancy early if there is a high volume of applications.
We encourage and welcome applications from veterans and service leavers.
Main duties of the job
* To deliver high quality clinical care in a timely manner as appropriate to the patient needs.
* To provide a first point of contact within the service for patients presenting with undifferentiated physical and mental health conditions, offering holistic assessment. This includes history taking, physical assessment, and undertaking investigations to inform clinical decision-making to establish a diagnosis and management plan in collaboration with the patient and their families or carers.
About us
Vine Medical Group is one of the largest practices in the locality with a patient list of around 26,500. This larger size means more diverse learning, development and research opportunities are possible to aid with longer-term career development goals.
We are a successful PMS training practice hosting GP registrars and ANPs. We have a forward-thinking, multi-skilled practice team that is well-run, has a great team ethos and is a high achiever for QOF balanced with investment in our staff's wellbeing. We are a family-friendly practice and try to accommodate working patterns to suit as far as we can. We are located in the heart of Hampshire between the Downs and the coast with good access to education and leisure.
We are rated Good by the CQC.
Job responsibilities
* This role involves working autonomously to a high standard of care within the same day care team triaging, assessing, diagnosing and treating minor illness and ailments as part of our on-the-day service, both on-site and at home.
* Supply, administer and prescribe medicines as indicated (and appropriate) to address patient needs, according to medicines management policy, patient group or patient-specific directions or NMC/HCPC standards.
* Provide telephone or video consultations, including the safe and effective triage of acutely unwell patients.
* Conduct reactive home visits to those acutely unwell patients, assess, plan, treat and arrange admission to hospital if required, for the practice and within the PCN.
* Conduct proactive home visits to housebound patients with long-term conditions, including but not exclusively dementia, diabetes, and respiratory disease.
* Provide advice to patients and their families or carers on general health care, lifestyle, and referring to internal or external services.
* Ensure clinical practice is safe, effective and evidence-based and remains within boundaries of competence and acknowledges limitations.
* Work within a team, be part of and create a positive culture and atmosphere for patients and staff.
* Make appropriate referrals to primary, secondary and social care services, following practice (and/or locally agreed) pathways and protocols.
* Promote self-care and educate service users to empower them to make informed choices about treatment.
* Understand local safeguarding referral processes and be aware of appropriate referral mechanisms for children and vulnerable adults.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Nurse Practitioner with NMC
* Qualified to Master's degree or equivalent
* Full UK Driving Licence
* Physical Assessment and Minor Illness Training
* Accredited training in any of the following: Urgent care, Chronic disease management or frailty
* Non-Medical Prescriber
Knowledge & Skills
* Clinical examination skills across a diverse range of patients including both children and adults
* Able to build positive rapport with a diverse range of patients and colleagues
* Effective communicator, able to communicate complex and sensitive information to patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome differing levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating, whilst ensuring the patient is fully informed.
* Able to work autonomously within your scope of practice whilst also having an understanding of when to access the wider clinical team.
* Working knowledge of EMIS and Docman medical systems.
Experience
* 3 years+ experience of working as a Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Nurse Practitioner
* Background of working in a fast-paced Primary Health Care or acute environment is essential
* Proven record of acting in roles where you have acted autonomously and responsibly for the assessment, treatment and/or appropriate referral of patients to specialist services when required.
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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