Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our forward thinking, supportive, family friendly training practice.
How we support our team:
- Regular clinical mentoring with senior GPs
- Opportunities for regular tutorials to develop you practice / areas of interest
- Forward thinking innovative leadership team - always looking to improve and interested in new models of care.
- We will support your ideas for quality and service improvement.
- Close working with our PCN and its Wellbeing Hub to provide support for non-urgent or non-medical needs like medication review, social prescribing, care coordination, mental health support.
- Are you interested in developing your leadership skills? Senior members of the Practice and PCN Leadership Team heavily involved and experienced in local and system NHS leadership and very willing to share knowledge and offer support to your development.
- CQC outstanding practice. High levels of patient satisfaction and positive feedback. Very active and supportive PPG.
- We require anywhere between 25-37 hours per week we are very flexible.
INTERESTED? PLEASE CONTACT US TO COME AND VISIT.
WE WOULD WELCOME INTERESTED APPLICANTS TO COME AND MEET PARTNERS AND OUR TEAM IN PERSON.
Main duties of the job
Working alongside our GPs, practice nurses and health care assistants or independently as appropriate for the need, according to practice policy, protocols etc.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice 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 Advanced Nurse Practitioner will
strive to improve standards of care and be involved in identifying practice
population needs. The successful candidate
will work across 2 sites – the Thornton Practice and Carleton Branch – to enhance
services within the Practice for the benefit of our patients.
Additionally, the successful candidate
will be encouraged and supported to undertake any further training required to
ensure appropriate role development.
About us
We are a large, friendly team with 6 Partner GPs and 1 Management Partner; 1 salaried GP's; 2 GP Reg; 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 1 Clinical Pharmacists, Practice Nurse Manager, 5 Practice Nurses, 3 HCAs and highly skilled Management and Administration teams.
We are passionate about staff health and wellbeing and working together as a team. If you share our passion for the NHS; believe in and value quality patient care, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Long established training and teaching of medical students, GP registrars, student nurses and business administration apprenticeships. Opportunity to become involved in supervision and education
PCN employed; Advanced Practitioner, Mental Health team, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician, Social Prescribers, Care Co-Ordinator's
Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Admin light practice, fully supported with a large highly skilled administration and clerical team
Regular MDT meetings
Equal opportunities employer
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional Responsibilities:
- To maintain professional registration.
- To maintain full accurate and contemporaneous records of activities both written and computerised as applicable to an agreed standard. The practice has a paperless approach and as such the computer records form the main record of all interactions with patients.
- To promote good communications within the multi-disciplinary team
- To maintain and update professional knowledge in line with the Quality and Outcomes Framework, The Practice Development Plan and your own Personal Development Plan
- To participate in educational programmes within the Practice
- To participate in a performance appraisal
- To maintain standards of conduct and dress to maintain public confidence
- To always maintain confidentiality in all areas
- Pro-actively promote the role of the ANP within the practice, and externally to all stakeholders
- Recognise the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health Care team and our Torentum Primary Care Network
- Participate in an annual appraisal and work towards NMC revalidation.
Clinical Responsibilities and Duties:
- In accordance with the Practice rota, as agreed, the post holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including consultations, telephone consultations and queries, home visits (where appropriate) checking and signing electronic and paper prescriptions, dealing with prescription queries, paperwork and correspondence to the desired quality and in a timely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions (where appropriate) in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
- Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health
- Provide counselling and health education
- Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
- Collect data for audit purposes
- Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
- Prescribe in accordance with the Practice Prescribing policy whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working within primary care
Administration responsibilities include:
- To ensure that any in house audit and requirements are achieved e.g. QOF prompts are actioned
- To record all clinical activity and health promotion data in the Practice computer system
- To maintain good lines of communication with the partners and the practice management
- To promptly notify the Management team of an absence
- To book annual leave via the Management team and to provide reasonable help/cover for colleagues absence or leave
- To observe health and safety rules as outlines in the Practice Health and Safety policy
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and procedures
- 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
- Attend and contribute weekly clinical meeting, quarterly team meetings and ad hoc training session organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
- Work with multi-disciplinary team within the practice, and across the wider NHS network, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
- Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services
Research, Audit and Quality:
- Encourage the development of a Practice audit strategy and action plan for Primary Care. Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Contribute to the provision of equitable, high quality services for patients in the locality.
- Help support the integration across primary, secondary and tertiary care services.
- Maintain an interest in national research initiatives and disseminate appropriate information to health professionals if asked to do so.
- Ensure all care is evidence based using up to date validated literature.
- Contribute to research and development programmes where required to improve clinical practice.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication: The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members, attend Practice meetings and contribute as necessary.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
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
- To work in accordance of all Practice written protocols
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 people’s 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 appraisal, 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
- Annual Resus Training
Safeguarding :The Thornton Practice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all who attend the surgery. The post-holder will be expected to share this commitment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional Responsibilities:
- To maintain professional registration.
- To maintain full accurate and contemporaneous records of activities both written and computerised as applicable to an agreed standard. The practice has a paperless approach and as such the computer records form the main record of all interactions with patients.
- To promote good communications within the multi-disciplinary team
- To maintain and update professional knowledge in line with the Quality and Outcomes Framework, The Practice Development Plan and your own Personal Development Plan
- To participate in educational programmes within the Practice
- To participate in a performance appraisal
- To maintain standards of conduct and dress to maintain public confidence
- To always maintain confidentiality in all areas
- Pro-actively promote the role of the ANP within the practice, and externally to all stakeholders
- Recognise the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health Care team and our Torentum Primary Care Network
- Participate in an annual appraisal and work towards NMC revalidation.
Clinical Responsibilities and Duties:
- In accordance with the Practice rota, as agreed, the post holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including consultations, telephone consultations and queries, home visits (where appropriate) checking and signing electronic and paper prescriptions, dealing with prescription queries, paperwork and correspondence to the desired quality and in a timely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions (where appropriate) in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
- Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health
- Provide counselling and health education
- Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
- Collect data for audit purposes
- Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
- Prescribe in accordance with the Practice Prescribing policy whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working within primary care
Administration responsibilities include:
- To ensure that any in house audit and requirements are achieved e.g. QOF prompts are actioned
- To record all clinical activity and health promotion data in the Practice computer system
- To maintain good lines of communication with the partners and the practice management
- To promptly notify the Management team of an absence
- To book annual leave via the Management team and to provide reasonable help/cover for colleagues absence or leave
- To observe health and safety rules as outlines in the Practice Health and Safety policy
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and procedures
- 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
- Attend and contribute weekly clinical meeting, quarterly team meetings and ad hoc training session organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
- Work with multi-disciplinary team within the practice, and across the wider NHS network, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
- Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services
Research, Audit and Quality:
- Encourage the development of a Practice audit strategy and action plan for Primary Care. Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Contribute to the provision of equitable, high quality services for patients in the locality.
- Help support the integration across primary, secondary and tertiary care services.
- Maintain an interest in national research initiatives and disseminate appropriate information to health professionals if asked to do so.
- Ensure all care is evidence based using up to date validated literature.
- Contribute to research and development programmes where required to improve clinical practice.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication: The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members, attend Practice meetings and contribute as necessary.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
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
- To work in accordance of all Practice written protocols
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 people’s 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 appraisal, 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
- Annual Resus Training
Safeguarding :The Thornton Practice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all who attend the surgery. The post-holder will be expected to share this commitment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council)
- Prescribing
- Recognised NP qualification at minimum of degree level or equivalent
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- RGN Advanced Nurse Practitioner programme accreditation
- Teaching / Mentoring experience and /or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
- Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up-to-date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of the ANP role
- Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team
- Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council)
- Prescribing
- Recognised NP qualification at minimum of degree level or equivalent
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- RGN Advanced Nurse Practitioner programme accreditation
- Teaching / Mentoring experience and /or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
- Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up-to-date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of the ANP role
- Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team
- Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
