Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER

REPORTS TO: NURSE MANAGER/THE PARTNERS (Clinically)

THE PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)

HOURS: 18 per week

Job Summary:

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face and via the telephone. There may also be a need to visit patients in their own homes.

The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

The postholder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

Job responsibilities:

Clinical Nursing Practice

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high-quality care.
• Carries out clinical nursing practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.

Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.

• Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as appropriate.

Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved.

• Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.

Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.

• Assess, diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
• Refers patients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.

Administration and professional responsibilities

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
• Attend and participate in practice meetings as required

Training and personal development

• Maintain up to date skills and knowledge, maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced level.
• Training needs will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the practice.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self-reflection and peer review, as well as benchmarking and formal evaluation.

• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work and ensure own educational commitment is at least sufficient to maintain revalidation requirements.
• Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan.

Confidentiality:

While seeking treatment, patients entrust practice staff with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.

Comply with Legislation with regards to data protection act and ensure confidentiality is always maintained.

• The post-holder must regard all information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers (as well as information relating to the practice as a business organisation) 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, data protection legislation and the protection of personal and sensitive data, as well as other related healthcare legislation (e.g. the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice).

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will comply with practice policies, procedures and clinical guidelines for self and others. This includes (but not limited to):

• Identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
• Identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities, raising them with appropriate management and managing those risks across clinical and patient processes.
• Safe management of sharps procedures, including use, storage and disposal
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Primary Care experience
• High level of clinical skills and competency relevant to the role
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
• Able to manage acute illnesses, long term conditions and minor ailments
• Refer patients independently as appropriate

Desirable

• Knowledge of Emis Web

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and active PIN
• MSc or BSc, Nurse Practitioner degree
• Independent Prescriber

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

Marches Medical Practice

Address

83 Main Road

Broughton

Flintshire

CH4 0NR

Employer's website

http://www.marchesmedical.wales.nhs.uk/home (Opens in a new tab)