Main area: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Grade Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Various shifts to cover the service between 8am-8pm across 7 days per week, 365 days per year)
Job ref: 001-NMR498-1224
Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Various sites across community bases
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/01/2025 23:59
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Band 8a
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. We serve a population of around 500,000 people in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, focusing on health and care needs while developing regional services.
Job overview
Safe@home is a new multi-agency and multi-professional integrated urgent response service within Cardiff & Vale UHB, providing an immediate and safe alternative to ambulance conveyance, EU attendance, and admission to hospital.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will form part of the core response team, working with a range of clinicians in the community, visiting patients in their own homes. You will ensure the safe assessment, management, referral, and discharge of patients across the service.
You should possess a Masters level qualification in advanced clinical practice, be an independent prescriber, and have previous experience in managing patients independently as an ACP.
You will be required to travel throughout the region on a daily basis and between the Cardiff and Vale office bases.
Main duties of the job
* Provide a specialist advanced clinical resource for the Safe@Home service, undertaking home visits for acute illness and making clinical decisions within competencies.
* Manage own patient caseload of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed Minor Illness and Injury within the Community.
* Perform house visits for patients with acutely deteriorating medical needs, autonomously assessing, diagnosing, advising, and prescribing as needed.
* Work with Clinical Board Directors and Lead Nurses to provide focused and professional leadership for nurses and allied health care professionals.
* Provide formal and informal teaching, support, and clinical supervision to nursing staff and junior medical staff.
* Promote excellence in nursing practice through active delivery of advanced nursing care to acutely unwell patients in the community.
* Participate in the MDT triaging of referrals into the Safe@Home service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Level 1 RN
* Current NMC registration
* Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice
* Minor Illness diploma or equivalent
* Independent prescriber
* Evidence of practice portfolio
* Teaching and assessing qualification
* Research qualification
Experience
* Significant experience of acute clinical care
* Significant experience of working autonomously in clinical practice
* Experience of working in a community setting
Skills
* Leadership and management skills
* Proven teaching skills
* Excellent written communication skills
* Excellent verbal communication skills
Special knowledge
* Knowledge of multidisciplinary team working and clinical governance.
* Knowledge of audit and research.
* Professional motivation and enthusiasm to develop.
* Ability to travel around Cardiff and Vale in a timely manner.
* Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion and welcome applications from everyone, recognizing the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa.
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