Job summary
PartneringHealth Group (PHL) is a leading healthcare organisation expanding its servicesacross Hampshire. We are currently seeking an experienced and dedicatedAdvanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP or APP) to join our Winchester Out Of Hoursservice.
As anAdvanced Nurse Practitioner, you will be an integral part of our team,delivering efficient integrated urgent care services with a compassionateapproach. Whether through telephone consultations, face-to-face interactions,or home visits, you will be responsible for delivering safe clinicaldecision-making and expert care to our patients. Your duties will encompassvarious aspects of the patient journey, from initial assessment to treatmentand evaluation.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role include:
1. Conduct thorough telephone clinical assessments to establish a working diagnosis.
2. Formulate comprehensive management plans, collaborating with other healthcare professionals as needed.
3. Prescribe medications within your clinical competence.
4. Recognise and initiate emergency treatment when necessary, ensuring patient safety.
5. Maintain professional and legal accountability for all clinical decisions made within your scope of practice.
About us
PHL Group was foundedin 2009 by a team of commercial partners and experienced General Practitionerswith a clear vision of providing services that would contribute to and benefitthe local healthcare economy. PHL (formerlyknown as Hampshire Doctors on Call) runs Integrated Urgent Care, which evolvedfrom the former Out of Hours model, for localities in Hampshire and the Isle ofWight. All of the core services which look after patients with an urgent healthcareneed are joined up together, and PHL work closely with system partners such as SouthCentral Ambulance Service. The services we operate include call handling,telephone clinical assessment, out of hours home visiting services and some face-to-facePrimary Care appointments services in Hampshire. In 2021 a newly formedHealthcare Division was created and incorporates PHLs Urgent Care, PrimaryCare and Youla Care Concierge Services. The new division combines PHL'shealthcare operations into one team and utilises internal and externalresources efficiently to achieve our organisations vision: to be an innovativehealthcare enabler, known for providing a range of high-quality care.
PHL Group aims to assist candidates with their transition into a career in the thriving and fast-paced private healthcare industry. We are looking for talented individuals that want to join us on our journey to becoming the fastest growing, most trusted healthcare organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
6. Work autonomously and be accountable for their own professional actions.
7. Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-acute, chronic medical conditions, minor illness, and minor injury.
8. Take a patient history, make appropriate physical examinations, formulate differential diagnoses, and carry through management treatment plans.
9. Formulate a management plan for the patient. And/or to use other sources of healthcare professionals, if required to support diagnosis or next course of action.
10. Refer and facilitate patient pathways through appropriate referrals to primary, community, secondary and tertiary care.
11. Prescribe medication as required within your clinical competence.
12. Recognise the need and initiate emergency treatment to save a life of to safeguard the interests of the patient and refer to emergency services when appropriate.
13. Recognise any social needs, safeguarding concerns and act appropriately to safeguard the patient.
14. To ensure that patients are safely discharged from our care with appropriate instructions for after care and follow up.
15. Adherence to KPIs without jeopardising the safety of the patient.
16. Identify opportunities and to proactively encourage health promotion and health education to all patients.
17. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical decision making within your clinical competence.
18. To take an active role within the cross-disciplinary, multi-skilled team to ensure service quality in line with corporate goals and strategies and provide mentorship and support to junior staff when required.
19. Take a person-centred approach to service delivery, based on clear understanding and experience of the modes for service delivery.
20. To assist in the development of new models for service delivery which have a positive impact on the health economy.
21. Maintain and develop clinical competence and knowledge of care delivery within primary care and urgent care setting using both formal and informal training methods.
22. To work within professional Code of Conduct and other directives as defined by the NMC/HCPC registration.
23. To participate in regular performance review with the Head of Clinical Operations/Service Clinical Lead
24. To undertake further specialist training as dictated by service needs and the changing requirements of service provisions.
25. Clearly always demonstrating adherence to PHL's core values.
26. Additional reasonable duties as directed by the business that are not explicitly stated in this job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
27. Qualified non-medical prescriber.
28. Registered with NMC/HCPC
29. At or working towards a Masters qualification/or equivalent experience demonstrating advanced clinical practice.
30. Must be authorised to work in the EEC.
31. Mentorship course.
32. Minor illness course.
Desirable
33. IRMER trained
Experience
Essential
34. Experience working in a primary care planned care clinics and same day/urgent care clinics.
35. Experience of Chronic Disease Management.
36. At least 3 years post qualified.
37. Competent in taking a clinical history excluding red flags and undertake a physical examination of the patient for patients presenting with undifferentiated conditions.
38. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - written, verbal and listening.
39. Understanding of professional responsibility and accountability
Desirable
40. Experience in an urgent care setting.
41. Radiology and interpretation course
42. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team