Advanced Nurse Practitioner

East of England, East of England

Fixed-Term

£43,742 to £50,952

Nurse/Midwife Manager
(Band 7)

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network is recruiting a number of Advanced Nurse Practitioners to work within our Acute Access Hubs. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team where same day access for acute patients is accessed via a PCN hub. This role will serve our Rawmarsh Hub, serving 3 small practices. The role is 3 full days per week.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will utilise a range of advanced skills and expert knowledge for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holders will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process. Clinical care will include new patient clerking, initial history taking, face-to-face assessment, examination, diagnosis, treatment, management, referral, and evaluation of care.

Main duties of the job

Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her own professional actions.
Undertake clinical decisions at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care service.
Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-urgent and chronic medical decisions.
Obtain a clinical history, undertake appropriate physical examinations, and investigations, formulate differential diagnosis and carry through management treatment plans ensuring relevant follow up.
Undertake same day acute clinics either through face to face consultations, telephone or video consultation.
Working as part of a larger primary care network to improve patient care and ensure more efficient ways of working.
Promote a learning environment for patients, nurses and other health professionals.

About us

Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network includes 7 member practices. We provide primary care for over 52,000 patients in the Rotherham area.

Our aim by working together to co-ordinate, plan and share resources is that we will develop a stronger, more resilient primary care offer for all our patients.

This new way of working brings together partners from across the health, social care and voluntary sector to design and deliver innovation in services better placed to meet the needs of our communities, ensure better health outcomes for patients and utilise resources in a more efficient way. This includes the creation of additional roles in our practices including Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers and Care Coordinators.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Maintain their professional registration. Work within the most up to date relevant professional standards set by individual profession governing body.
Record accurate consultation data in patients records in the clinical system, all practices use Systm1, in accordance with the up-to-date professional standards
Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring consistent and accurate data entry and use of read codes.
Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports to discuss with clinician as appropriate.
As an independent prescriber, the post holder will prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework within scope of practice.
Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care and support patientswithSocio-economic issues.
Promote health and well-being through, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills to improve self-care and promote independence for patients.
Participate in screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of disease.
Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate or after discussion with a GP.
Encouraging patients to rely on face-to-face consultations only where there is clinical need to.
Working with allied health professional to ensure Quality and Outcome Frameworks are delivered
Under complex decision making which involves sensitive or contentious information and occasionally deal with situations which are hostile or emotive.
Exercise professional judgment to manage risk appropriately especially where there maybe complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of the individuals families and carers.
Use enhanced communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills and demonstrate empathy, reassurance and adopt persuasive skills to overcome barriers to acceptance.
Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Practice, and across the wider primary care network to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Evidence of both team and autonomous working.
Can show evidence of using autonomous physical examination and assessment skills.
Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
Consolidated Independent Prescribing experience.
Use of examination skills in practice.
Experience of telephone triage.

Desirable

Experience of working in Primary Care.

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery
Council (NMC) or, Paramedic registered with the Health Care Professions
Council (HCPC)
Registered as an independent nonmedical prescriber is a must.
A minimum of 2 modules at Level 7. One module must have included assessment of clinical examination skills

Desirable

MSc (Advanced Practice)

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.