As a Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP), you will work as a key part of the Hospital at Night (H@N) team, supporting the H@N service which runs 19:30 to 07:30, 7 days a week. NNP's are expected to offer a broad spectrum of experience, knowledge, and advanced nursing skills. The role has been devised to deliver multi-professional models of service delivery across the trust, emphasising multi-professional working to generate sustainable solutions to increasing workforce planning challenges.
NNP's are versatile healthcare professionals, managing complex and holistic clinical care for their patients across a variety of clinical areas. Their level of practice is characterised by high levels of autonomous decision making including the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex multi-dimensional problems. Decisions are made using expert knowledge and skills, including the authority to refer, admit and discharge within appropriate clinical areas.
This opportunity is for a permanent role, with a vacancy within the team arising from 01/08/25 - this being the ideal start date for the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior Health Care Professional (HCP) to join our dynamic Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP) team at Frimley Park Hospital, facilitating clinical expertise and collaborative working throughout the trust. Please note this role does require cross-site working to the other acute site (Wexham Park) for training and when required.
The NNP team works in partnership with both medical and surgical directorates out of hours and is at the forefront of clinical leadership, providing an array of advanced clinical skills and expertise.
As an NNP you will develop professional autonomous working, conducting comprehensive clinical assessments and examination, synthesizing clinical findings to aid clinical decision-making skills to formulate and implement appropriate treatment.
Job responsibilities
* Single point of access for all hospital at night clinical tasks, ensuring optimal, safe, and effective patient care is delivered proficiently out of hours.
* Independently manage the H@N triaging system and understand H@N structure and teams capabilities to appropriately allocate jobs accordingly, maintaining fairness, safety, and efficiency.
* Work independently as an autonomous nurse practitioner undertaking comprehensive history & physical examination skills to support differential diagnosis.
* Order, interpret, and analyse new and historical results of tests/investigations.
* Acts on the results to confirm diagnosis and thereby optimise treatment and management outcomes.
* Applies high level decision-making and assessment skills to formulate appropriate differential diagnoses based on synthesis of clinical findings.
* Able to identify early on the acutely unwell deteriorating adult, facilitating early escalation and intervention to prevent further deterioration of the presenting illness using advanced clinical skills.
* Able to identify when and if patients need an escalation in care to the appropriate dependency environment and facilitates safe transfer of critically unwell patient in timely fashion using the correct processes and resources.
* Attends all NEWS calls and cardiac arrest emergencies as part of the emergency response team.
* Works closely with the junior doctors in providing consistent, high standards of care portraying strong leadership and demonstrating a proactive work ethic.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RGN/Diploma
* Valid NMC registration
* Acute Care/Critical care/Coronary care/Emergency Care Course level 6/7
* Good standards of numeracy and literacy
* ALS trained
* Significant experience at band 6 within an acute setting
* Willingness to undertake masters
* Physical assessment Module
* Non Medical Prescribing Module
* Studied at level 7
* ACP MSc
* ALS/ ILS instructor
* Willingness to undertake NMP module
Experience
* Critical Care/Emergency Care/Intensive Care/ Coronary care
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.
£48,270 to £54,931 a year per annum INCL HCAS
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