Job summary
Mendip Vale Medical Group (MVMG) are looking for further Advanced Practitioners (AP's) to join our existing team, as we expand in our friendly and innovative practices serving over 70,000 patients within our 8 sites in North Somerset, Bristol & South Gloucester.
You will be working with a friendly and knowledgeable team, undertaking a variety of tasks as a member of the acute, urgent care team using your knowledge and experience to help us continually improve safe, effective, patient-centred and efficient care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, acting within their professional boundaries, providing advanced clinical skills and advice to patient presenting at the surgery for both acute and long term conditions.
The post-holder will look to improve patients health outcomes by demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients within their care.
Working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary surgery team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures and providing leadership as required in order to work at this level. NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met, as well as the ability to undertake Independent Medical Prescribing.
The post-holder will develop good working relationships with patients, GP, nurses and other surgery staff, as well as our community partners and hospital staff.
About us
Changes made from merging and working more effectively have enabled us to make investment into our buildings. The Langford site is an impressive modern facility, purpose built in 2013, with great parking and equipment. The St Georges site is a wonderful 2012 purpose built surgery with all the facilities to make your working environment enjoyable. Sunnyside Surgery is well placed in Clevedon with an attached pharmacy serving patients living in Clevedon and the surrounding villages, as is our Coniston Practice in South Glos who care for patients living in Patchway and the surrounding area.
We have recently refurbished our Yatton surgery and have extended our Monks Park site to ensure our sites are fit for the provision of delivering modern health care, making our estate one of the newest and brightest in the south west.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, acting within their professional boundaries, providing advanced clinical skills and advice. The post-holder will look to improve patients health outcomes by demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients within their care. Working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary surgery team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures and providing leadership as required in order to work at this level, NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met.
The post-holder will develop good working relationships with:
Patients
GP, nurses and other Surgery staff
Other Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Community Nurses and other healthcare staff
Hospital staff
Clinical Responsibilities:
- To undertake a variety of duties, including working across the Surgeries in the locality as directed by the Duty Doctor.
- To deliver a high standard of patient care as an Advanced Practitioner (AP) in general practice, using specialist knowledge, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base utilising autonomous clinical skills.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis for patients presenting at the Surgery and within their own homes.
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
- Provide specific evidence based practical skills and knowledge in the following:
- Coughs, colds and flu
- Sore throats
- Earache
- Skin rashes
- Diarrhoea / vomiting
- Soft tissue and ligament injuries
- Abdominal pain
- Urine infection / discharges
- Emergency contraception
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs, within the post holders knowledge and skills and in accordance with National and Local Guidelines.
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care. Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning or sexual health consultations.
- Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with national and local guidelines.
- Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collect and review data for audit purposes.
- Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Surgery policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the Lead GP.
- To maintain registration as an Advanced Practitioner and comply with appropriate professional codes.
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records.
- Contribute to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data, contributing to the maximum Surgery performance under QOF.
- Attend training and events organised by the Surgery or other agencies, where appropriate.
Communication
- Able to confidentially utilise a variety of communication methods to disseminate information to large numbers of people.
- Adapt communication style and content to reflect different type of people when making contact.
- Ability to receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and process appropriately.
- Promote positivity and effective working relationships with commissioners, other health care providers and other key health care providers and other key partners to support an integrated approach to high quality patient care.
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- Whilst performing the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their careers, surgery staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Surgery as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, careers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Surgery may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Surgery policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
- Maintain own health, safety and security knowledge & understanding as defined in the surgery Health & Safety Policy.
- Use personal security systems within the workplace according to surgery guidelines.
- Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Make effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
- Use appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Report potential & actual risks identified
Equality and Diversity
- Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Act in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Surgery procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, careers and colleagues.
- Behave in a manner which is welcoming to an individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development
- Participate in any training program implemented by the Surgery as part of this employment.
- Identify personal development and training needs.
- Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
- Lead and support others with their training and development needs.
- Participate in continuing education to maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skill
Quality
- Propose, implement, manage and evaluate initiatives to improve cost-effective, safe and appropriate prescribing within the surgeries.
- Assess own performance, ensuring competence, and being accountable for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
- Be responsible for identifying risks within the working environment and either resolve these or report them within the surgeries.
- Contribute to the quality assurance process and effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to ensure the best care for the patient, referring in as necessary.
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
- Contribution to the Implementation of Services
- Maintain and update relevant Surgery policies, standards and guidance.
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
- Participate in audits & meetings where appropriate.
- Work across sites to support our One Team culture and to provide a sustainable patient focused service
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, acting within their professional boundaries, providing advanced clinical skills and advice. The post-holder will look to improve patients health outcomes by demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients within their care. Working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary surgery team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures and providing leadership as required in order to work at this level, NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met.
The post-holder will develop good working relationships with:
Patients
GP, nurses and other Surgery staff
Other Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Community Nurses and other healthcare staff
Hospital staff
Clinical Responsibilities:
- To undertake a variety of duties, including working across the Surgeries in the locality as directed by the Duty Doctor.
- To deliver a high standard of patient care as an Advanced Practitioner (AP) in general practice, using specialist knowledge, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base utilising autonomous clinical skills.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis for patients presenting at the Surgery and within their own homes.
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
- Provide specific evidence based practical skills and knowledge in the following:
- Coughs, colds and flu
- Sore throats
- Earache
- Skin rashes
- Diarrhoea / vomiting
- Soft tissue and ligament injuries
- Abdominal pain
- Urine infection / discharges
- Emergency contraception
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs, within the post holders knowledge and skills and in accordance with National and Local Guidelines.
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care. Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning or sexual health consultations.
- Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with national and local guidelines.
- Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collect and review data for audit purposes.
- Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Surgery policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the Lead GP.
- To maintain registration as an Advanced Practitioner and comply with appropriate professional codes.
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records.
- Contribute to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data, contributing to the maximum Surgery performance under QOF.
- Attend training and events organised by the Surgery or other agencies, where appropriate.
Communication
- Able to confidentially utilise a variety of communication methods to disseminate information to large numbers of people.
- Adapt communication style and content to reflect different type of people when making contact.
- Ability to receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and process appropriately.
- Promote positivity and effective working relationships with commissioners, other health care providers and other key health care providers and other key partners to support an integrated approach to high quality patient care.
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- Whilst performing the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their careers, surgery staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Surgery as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, careers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Surgery may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Surgery policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
- Maintain own health, safety and security knowledge & understanding as defined in the surgery Health & Safety Policy.
- Use personal security systems within the workplace according to surgery guidelines.
- Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Make effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
- Use appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Report potential & actual risks identified
Equality and Diversity
- Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Act in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Surgery procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, careers and colleagues.
- Behave in a manner which is welcoming to an individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development
- Participate in any training program implemented by the Surgery as part of this employment.
- Identify personal development and training needs.
- Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
- Lead and support others with their training and development needs.
- Participate in continuing education to maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skill
Quality
- Propose, implement, manage and evaluate initiatives to improve cost-effective, safe and appropriate prescribing within the surgeries.
- Assess own performance, ensuring competence, and being accountable for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
- Be responsible for identifying risks within the working environment and either resolve these or report them within the surgeries.
- Contribute to the quality assurance process and effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to ensure the best care for the patient, referring in as necessary.
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
- Contribution to the Implementation of Services
- Maintain and update relevant Surgery policies, standards and guidance.
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
- Participate in audits & meetings where appropriate.
- Work across sites to support our One Team culture and to provide a sustainable patient focused service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse/Paramedic (Currently registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council of HCPC).
- MSc in Advanced Practice Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (or working towards).
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Experience
Essential
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and General Practices.
- Experience in management long term conditions e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, CHD.
- Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team Experience of use of a medical software package.
- Understanding of evidence based practice Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice.
- Understanding of the accountability arising from the NMC Code of Professional Conduct (2004) and medico-legal aspects of the Advanced Practitioner role.
- Interpreting and implementing local and National policy agendas for health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse/Paramedic (Currently registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council of HCPC).
- MSc in Advanced Practice Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (or working towards).
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Experience
Essential
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and General Practices.
- Experience in management long term conditions e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, CHD.
- Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team Experience of use of a medical software package.
- Understanding of evidence based practice Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice.
- Understanding of the accountability arising from the NMC Code of Professional Conduct (2004) and medico-legal aspects of the Advanced Practitioner role.
- Interpreting and implementing local and National policy agendas for health.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
