Job responsibilities
Everest Health Partnership
Post Title: Advanced
Nurse Practitioner / Paramedic
Responsibleto: The
Practice Manager for administrative matters
The
General Practitioners for clinical matters
Job
Summary
To practice as an Emergency Care Practitioner/Advanced
Practitioner to provide an on the day emergency service for patients. The role
will involve the assessment, diagnosis, treatment or referral of patients
presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holder
will work within the Advanced/Emergency Care Practitioners level of
competency.
Key
Responsibilities
Clinical
To provide triage, assessment, diagnosis, and appropriate
treatment/referral to patients according to their needs, either in the Practice
or patients homes.
To support the development of an on the day emergency patient
service within the Practice.
To undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action
to manage patient care, distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings in
order to relate them to a possible diagnosis, using clinical guidelines as
appropriate.
To signpost appropriately to other services in the identified
healthcare pathway.
To refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally
agreed healthcare pathways.
To discharge or treat, as appropriate and within the
practitioners scope of practice.
To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient
interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.
Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote
healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care
Communication
To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient
interactions and clinical care provided, including any adverse events, child
protection issues or other notifiable matters.
Ensuring that documentation is of a high standard reflective of Advanced
Clinical Practice, adhering to local and national guidelines.
To liaise and interact with multi-professional teams across
organisational boundaries, including primary care, social services and
secondary care providers according to patient needs and appropriate care
pathways.
Promote collaborative working relationships and effective
communication between all members of the team.
To maintain communication with all healthcare professionals and
outside agencies to ensure seamless, patient-centred service provision.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the
need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of
understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
To assist in maintaining accurate data collection.
Delivering
a Quality Service
To operate as an effective member of the Practice team.
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of
conduct as regulated by the Health and Care Professionals Council.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous records of patient consultation,
consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that
maintains and promotes quality.
Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based
care.
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer
review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance
systems and processes , including clinical audit, across the organisation and
its activities.
Within the practice, and in partnership with other clinical teams,
collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and
national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and
wider organisation.
Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification
of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of local statutory
child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance
Organisational
To ensure effective time management and prioritisation of
workload.
To ensure the security, safe storage and maintenance of any
allocated equipment and goods.
To ensure practice is within good clinical governance and based on
sound up-to- date clinical evidence. Where appropriate, to identify and assess
any risks associated with patient care or to oneself and communicate these
risks to the appropriate clinical manager.
Be aware of and adhere to all relevant guidance and legislation
relating to: Data Protection, Patient Confidentiality, GDPR, and Data Security.
Learning & Development
Maintain own competences.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members
in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future
developments (e.g. courses and conferences).Assess own learning needs and
undertake learning as appropriate.
To review and expand the role over time in line with the
practices needs and the practitioners development goals
This is not meant to be an
exhaustive list of duties. The need for
flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other
related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever
reasonably instructed.
