Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Winchester
NHS
Winchester
GBP 40,000 - 60,000
5 days ago
Job Overview
Partnering Health Group (PHL) is a leading healthcare organisation expanding its services across Hampshire. We are currently seeking an experienced and dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP or APP) to join our Winchester Out Of Hours service.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will be an integral part of our team, delivering efficient integrated urgent care services with a compassionate approach. Whether through telephone consultations, face-to-face interactions, or home visits, you will be responsible for delivering safe clinical decision-making and expert care to our patients. Your duties will encompass various aspects of the patient journey, from initial assessment to treatment and evaluation.
Main Duties of the Job
* Conduct thorough telephone clinical assessments to establish a working diagnosis.
* Formulate comprehensive management plans, collaborating with other healthcare professionals as needed.
* Prescribe medications within your clinical competence.
* Recognise and initiate emergency treatment when necessary, ensuring patient safety.
* Maintain professional and legal accountability for all clinical decisions made within your scope of practice.
Job Responsibilities
* Work autonomously and be accountable for their own professional actions.
* Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-acute, chronic medical conditions, minor illness, and minor injury.
* Take a patient history, make appropriate physical examinations, formulate differential diagnoses, and carry through management treatment plans.
* Formulate a management plan for the patient and/or use other sources of healthcare professionals, if required to support diagnosis or next course of action.
* Refer and facilitate patient pathways through appropriate referrals to primary, community, secondary and tertiary care.
* Recognise the need and initiate emergency treatment to save a life or to safeguard the interests of the patient and refer to emergency services when appropriate.
* Recognise any social needs, safeguarding concerns and act appropriately to safeguard the patient.
* Ensure that patients are safely discharged from our care with appropriate instructions for aftercare and follow-up.
* Adhere to KPIs without jeopardising the safety of the patient.
* Identify opportunities and proactively encourage health promotion and health education to all patients.
* Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical decision making within your clinical competence.
* 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.
* Take a person-centred approach to service delivery, based on clear understanding and experience of the modes for service delivery.
* Assist in the development of new models for service delivery which have a positive impact on the health economy.
* Maintain and develop clinical competence and knowledge of care delivery within primary care and urgent care settings using both formal and informal training methods.
* Work within the professional Code of Conduct and other directives as defined by the NMC/HCPC registration.
* Participate in regular performance review with the Head of Clinical Operations/Service Clinical Lead.
* Undertake further specialist training as dictated by service needs and the changing requirements of service provisions.
* Clearly demonstrate adherence to PHL's core values.
* Additional reasonable duties as directed by the business that are not explicitly stated in this job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified non-medical prescriber.
* Registered with NMC/HCPC.
* At or working towards a Masters qualification/or equivalent experience demonstrating advanced clinical practice.
* Must be authorised to work in the EEC.
* Minor illness course.
* IRMER trained.
Experience
* Experience working in primary care planned care clinics and same day/urgent care clinics.
* Experience of Chronic Disease Management.
* At least 3 years post qualified.
* Competent in taking a clinical history excluding red flags and undertaking a physical examination of the patient for patients presenting with undifferentiated conditions.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - written, verbal, and listening.
* Understanding of professional responsibility and accountability.
* Experience in an urgent care setting.
* Radiology and interpretation course.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
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.
£32.91 to £52.65 an hour Out of hours enhancements.
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