Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Responsible to: Drs Whittle, Dr Bevz, Dr Fairhead, Dr W Yousaf, Dr F Yousaf and the Practice Manager

Salary: Depending on experience

Job Summary:

Diagnosing and treating patients with acute and chronic conditions, advising in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. Patients will have booked appointments at fifteen-minute intervals. The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. Undertake medication reviews, respond to patients queries and action out of hours summary reports.

Job Responsibilities: Clinical Duties

The Nurse Practitioner makes professionally autonomous decisions, for which she will have sole responsibility. Has the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer them to other health care providers as appropriate.

Provide Same Day Consultations

• Triage and treat patients, making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team
• To provide same day consultations, this includes taking appropriate detailed history from the patient and their families, undertake appropriate physical examination, initiate diagnostic tests and plan the necessary intervention and treatment.
• The Nurse Practitioner will receive their own laboratory results and make the appropriate action on the patients notes. The Nurse Practitioner will also supervise and advise the Practice Nurses on issues surrounding the interpreting results.
• Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.

Provide Telephone Triage

• The Nurse Practitioner is responsible for sorting out the requests for same day consultations, this includes determining whether the callers condition can be managed through advice, whether they need to come in and see a health professional or whether they can be prescribed medication over the telephone.
• To undertake home visits where appropriate.

Provide and co-ordinate services for the management of minor injuries and ailments.

Providing assessment, screening treatment services and health education advice:

• Diabetes
• Respiratory Diseases
• Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Hypertension

Promote and co-ordinate womens health

To allow all women an option to see a female practitioner for assessment should they wish. To include:

• Pre-conceptional care
• Contraception
• Cervical cytology
• Menorrhagia
• Management of the menopause
• Hormone replacement therapy
• To promote breast awareness to the practice population

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures.

Administration and professional responsibilities

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team
• Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes
• Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded and amended
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit
• Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required
• Support the practice in achieving Quality and Outcomes Framework targets

Training and personal development

• Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.
• Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development ensuring PREP requirements are met.
• If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
• Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan

Liaison

• As well as the nursing team there is a need to work closely with reception and administration staff to ensure the smooth running of the Practice, reporting any problems encountered to the relevant person and ensuring everyone is aware of the different roles within the nursing team.
• There is also the need to establish and maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies including secondary care

Continuing Education

• Continue to update through relevant literature, especially in relation to NSFs and NICE recommendations.
• Maintain awareness of clinical governance issues.
• Contribute to practice based guidelines, protocols and the practice development plan.
• Annual appraisal and to undertake development identified here.

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
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
• All patients diagnosis and treatments must be held in the STRICTEST CONFIDENCE at all times

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Additional Duties:

Undertake additional duties as may from time to time be deemed necessary.

To provide cover for other members of the nursing team due to sickness/training/annual leave/emergency situations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Advanced Practice Qualification)
• Qualified Triage Nurse

Desirable

• Qualified Nurse Prescriber
• Minor Illness Qualification

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Good interpersonal skills

Desirable

• EMIS user skills

Other

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

Desirable

• Flexibility to work outside of core working hours

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Desirable

• Experience of chronic disease management
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Cleveleys Group Practice

Address

Kelso Avenue

Thornton-cleveleys

Lancashire

FY5 3LF

Employer's website

https://www.cleveleysgrouppractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)