Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our team within St Neots PCN, where you can make a
positive contribution to patient care and peer support and supervision.
This role
provides the opportunity to work across PCNs sites and to become involved in
Population Health management across this PCN.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will be acting within
your professional boundaries, providing care for patients from initial history
taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care
with the support of the PCN Clinical Lead as required. You will demonstrate
safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the Primary
Care Network (PCN), whilst working autonomously and taking full accountability
for patient encounters. You will work within your professional boundaries as
part of the Multi-Disciplinary team (MDT) across the PCN, supporting the
delivery of the Primary Care Directed Enhanced Service to meet the needs of
patients.
Main duties of the job
- Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
- Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action
- Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
- Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
- Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary
care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and
determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership
in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve
the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire,
Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Joining our team presents
an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way
primary care is delivered today.
Living and breathing our values at
Lakeside Healthcare
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about
people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first
in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs
with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the
communities we serve.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we
network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another
to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best
decisions to provide the best service.
PCNs (Primary Care Networks) were
introduced in July 2020, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, to encourage
collaborative working across GP surgeries within local communities, providing
additional services and programmes to support population health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Advance Nurse Practitioner will undertake duties within the
Practice itself thus ensuring contemporary clinical skills and credibility as
well as ongoing integration with the wider team and services. This would
include review and care of patients attending the Practice (for pre-planned
services or same day urgent care) and include diagnosing and treating patients
presenting with minor illness, seeing, and advising people in respect of their
continuing medical and nursing needs.
Your work will demonstrate improvement in patient outcomes,
contributing to reduce health inequalities across the PCN and improving the
efficiency of general practice and delivering a best-in-class service.
Mentorship and supervision will be provided by the PCN Clinical
Lead. The level and type of supervision will be dependent on the post holders
skills and knowledge and determined by the organisations clinical governance
arrangements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Advance Nurse Practitioner will undertake duties within the
Practice itself thus ensuring contemporary clinical skills and credibility as
well as ongoing integration with the wider team and services. This would
include review and care of patients attending the Practice (for pre-planned
services or same day urgent care) and include diagnosing and treating patients
presenting with minor illness, seeing, and advising people in respect of their
continuing medical and nursing needs.
Your work will demonstrate improvement in patient outcomes,
contributing to reduce health inequalities across the PCN and improving the
efficiency of general practice and delivering a best-in-class service.
Mentorship and supervision will be provided by the PCN Clinical
Lead. The level and type of supervision will be dependent on the post holders
skills and knowledge and determined by the organisations clinical governance
arrangements.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing emergency care for patients and management of patients with complex needs
- Experience in primary care/general practice
- Evidence of wide knowledge base and competency in clinical practice including prescribing.
- Experience of case management
- Experience in audit programmes and research studies
- Evidence of service development initiatives within role portfolio
- Experience of Clinical Governance and risk assessment/management processes
- Experience of teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- Experience of Nurse Led triage
Desirable
- Working with community development initiatives
Qualifications
Essential
- RGM Qualification
- Current registration with the NMC
- Masters degree - Advanced practice pathway
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
- Working at or working towards a masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.
- Evidence of Continued professional development portfolio
- Safeguarding level 3 in Adults & Children & Young People
Desirable
- Mentorship and/or leadership training
- Undertaken Accredited training in Chronic Disease management
- Undertaken Clinical Supervision Training
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing emergency care for patients and management of patients with complex needs
- Experience in primary care/general practice
- Evidence of wide knowledge base and competency in clinical practice including prescribing.
- Experience of case management
- Experience in audit programmes and research studies
- Evidence of service development initiatives within role portfolio
- Experience of Clinical Governance and risk assessment/management processes
- Experience of teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- Experience of Nurse Led triage
Desirable
- Working with community development initiatives
Qualifications
Essential
- RGM Qualification
- Current registration with the NMC
- Masters degree - Advanced practice pathway
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
- Working at or working towards a masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.
- Evidence of Continued professional development portfolio
- Safeguarding level 3 in Adults & Children & Young People
Desirable
- Mentorship and/or leadership training
- Undertaken Accredited training in Chronic Disease management
- Undertaken Clinical Supervision Training
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).
