Note interview date will likely be Friday 9th May 2025
This role requires the successful candidate to have either graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centre's ePortfolio (supported) Route.
Role Summary
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced registered practitioner / nurse to help PCN Care Home Residents while also providing proactive care to patients with complex needs.
The successful candidate will be a caring, compassionate, and dedicated experienced registered practitioner / nurse who, within their professional bounds, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking to clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.
They will make safe, competent clinical decisions and provide professional treatment, including evaluation and diagnostic skills.
The postholder will commit to using critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process.
They will interact and collaborate with the PCN and general practice teams to address patients' needs while also supporting policy and procedure implementation.
When not visiting patients in their homes or care homes, the postholder will work on-site at Abbey Manor Medical Centre in Yeovil.
PCN's core business hours are Monday through Friday, 0830 - 1630.
Main Duties of the Job
Responsibilities
1. Participate in regular MDT meetings and Care Home ward rounds to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients.
2. Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
3. Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs.
4. Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
5. Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
6. Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs.
7. Support patients and Care Home staff to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.
8. Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF for Mental Health.
9. Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
About Us
The Yeovil Primary Care Network (PCN) is an exciting and creative place to work. Yeovil PCN was founded in 2019 and has continued to improve and enhance the services it provides to its community.
We are a cooperation of five GP practices in Yeovil and a central PCN Hub team situated at Abbey Manor Medical Centre, and we aspire to provide clinical excellence and proactive patient-centered care.
Our successful services currently include a thriving Community Investigation Hub, the County's top performing covid and flu vaccination programme, our supportive and engaging Care Home and Proactive Care team, our highly regarded Physiotherapy team and the NHS Health Check Service, which we were recently awarded.
We also have fresh and interesting initiatives in the works, and we think that our employees are the primary drivers of innovation and delivery, therefore we invest in their training and development.
We are committed to strengthening our connections with community services and other system partners in order to overcome obstacles and establish an Integrated Neighbourhood Team that will enable us to deliver significant patient-centered care. Yeovil is a charming rural town situated on the border of Somerset and Dorset. There are lots of family-friendly nearby amenities and excellent transport options.
Staff also benefit from the NHS Pension Scheme, Blue Light Card and other discount opportunities and competitive annual leave and bank holiday entitlement.
Person Specification
Experience
* Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
* Clinical Leadership
* Nurse prescribing
* Experience of prioritising own workload in a busy working environment
* Nurse-led triage and MDT working
* Working with community development initiatives
* Health-needs assessment
Knowledge & Skills
* Advanced clinical practice skills
* Management of patients with long-term conditions
* Management of patients with complex needs
* Clinical examination skills, ideally PACR trained (Patient Assessment and Clinical Reasoning) / PADRAP trained (Psychophysiology and Diagnostic Reasoning for Advancing Practice)
* Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
* Local and national health policy
* Clinical governance issues in primary care
* Clinical leadership skills
* Communication skills, both written and verbal
* Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
* Negotiation and conflict management skills
* Change management
* Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
* Resource management
* Understanding of Primary Care Networks and network Direct Enhanced Service
* Knowledge of public health issues
* Experience of working within Care Homes or with patients with complex needs
Personal Qualities and Attributes/Other
* Must hold valid driving licence and own means of transport
* Highly motivated
* Flexibility
* Team player
* Ability to work across boundaries
Qualifications
* Either graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centre's ePortfolio (supported) Route.
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.
£53,753 a year Full time equivalent, pro rata for less hours
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