Primary Care Advanced Nurse Prescriber

Job responsibilities

Main duties

Provide care to the practice's patients as per the areas listed above.

Management of long-term conditions: involvement, implementing and using protocols and clinical guidelines Work with patients to support compliance with, and adherence to, prescribed treatments support patients with diabetes, Support Infection Prevention Control (IPC) within the practice, Deliver Vaccinations and Immunisations (childhood and adult)

Assist with the reviewing and the delivery of clinical policies and procedures

Ability to monitor, audit, manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration, single use equipment and general treatment room equipment

Support the practice's fulfilment of the Quality Outcomes Framework and local Quality Improvement Schemes.

Undertake clinical audits

To take responsibility for own professional development and undertaking training for specific clinical tasks

Attend mandatory training courses and updates and any study days as appropriate to post

Participate in yearly appraisal, personal development plan and revalidation

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential Qualifications
• Registered RGN/Full NMC pin
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Management / leadership training / experience
• Recognised qualification / training of chronic diseases
• Diabetes / COPD / Asthma training / qualifications
• Understanding of QoF and Chronic Disease Management
• Infection Prevention Control training / experience
• Cervical Cytology trained
• Vaccination and Immunisation trained
• Wound Management
• Nurse Prescriber
• Experience of clinical audits
• Experience of SystmOne/TPP, and Ardens
• Experience of caring for people with Asthma / COPD / Diabetes

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working within a primary care environment
• Experience of working as a Practice Nurse or Community Nurse
• Other Responsibilities within the Practice
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies / guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning, evaluation and audit to ensure evidence based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation / audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
• Confidentiality
• While 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 postholder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).