Advanced Nurse Practitioners & Paramedics, Treatment Centre

Job responsibilities

Communication and relationship skills

· Initiates appropriate, timely consultation and/or referral, when more expert input is required.

· Establishes and maintains excellent communication, with patients and their carers at all times.

· Uses highly developed communication skills to provide guidance, advice and support to the patient/carer regarding management of their health/illness condition and its impact on patient’s/carer’s life to ensure informed decision making has taken place.

· Provides verbal and written information to patient’s, to enable them to give informed consent for treatment and obtains written consent for specified procedures.

· Demonstrates an ability to work autonomously across the PCN and is aware of professional boundaries, roles and responsibilities.

· Establishes and maintains local and regional network of contacts sharing good practice, innovative ideas, promotes developments by willingness to work across practices when requested.

· Exhibits standards of personal and professional conduct and performance required by the Health Professions Council (HCPC) or Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Maintain professional registration through the HCPC, or NMC.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

• Demonstrates high standards of care, in line with the PCN core values, having both advisory and clinical input into care and treatment of your patents.

· Plans and manages own workload and workload of the practice, in a flexible manner, ensuring service provision meets needs of patients.

· Whilst working in the practice is able to assess risks to health, safety and security of the practice and takes appropriate action to promote and or report/ improve practice/environment to ensure safety for staff and patients.

· Uses their professional judgement in leading on and managing complex and unpredictable care events and captures learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.

· Take into account complex information including a range of health and social needs that a patient may present with.

· Act as an advocate for patient and family priorities and risk factors when weighing options for intervention and refer if appropriate to outside agencies to ensure patient safety.

· Undertake and evaluate self-clinical audit through, clinical supervision sessions, self-directed learning and appraisals with lead ANP.

· Contributes to PCN governance process, using safeguarding procedures, including learning events, significant events and complaints reporting and investigation.

Training, Planning and Organisational Skills

• Actively engages in continuous professional development in line with clinical practice role and PCN service development needs

• Self maintains a suitable CPD record and ensures adheres to NMC HCPC revalidation requirements

• Monitors own work load and highlights areas of potential risk, where patients may not be seen in a timely manner and remedial action may need to take place.

• Is aware of mandatory training requirements set out by the PCN and completes these in a timely manner.

Patient/Client Care

• Takes responsibility for providing care and treatment in line with current evidence base practice at an advanced clinical practice level.

• Demonstrates the ability to make critical judgements and utilise problem-solving skills, regarding patient care, on a daily basis.

• Initiates and carries out highly complex patient assessment, analyses and interprets results, using highly developed advanced knowledge and skills that includes: Comprehensive patient history taking, physical examination and understanding self-competences when interpreting range of tests and or investigations investigations.

• Independently prescribes a range of medications, as agreed at PCN level, based on self-competencies, efficacy, safety and cost.

• Discusses and agrees assessment outcomes with patients, carers and other health professionals, to enable them to make informed decisions regarding treatment and care, and initiates appropriate, timely consultation and/or referral, when more expert input is required

• To comply fully with Infection Prevention and Control Policies.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with relevant professional body.
• Recognised Advanced Clinical Practice course (or working towards)
• Non-medical prescriber.
• Ability to see and treat a wide range of minor injury and illness presentations.
• To take a full comprehensive history, clinically physically examine and treat within level of own competence.
• Willing to learn clinical new skills to enhance practice.
• Evidence of on-going CPD.

Desirable

• Interpretation of X-rays.
• Understanding of the Primary Care Network.
• Additional skills of assessing paediatrics, elderly care.
• Teaching and developing staff.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information/results from patient assessment.

Aptitudes and Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, using a range of methods, e.g. verbal, written, record keeping.
• Maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of the patient and their relatives.
• To be competent to deal calmly and professionally with patients, relatives and work colleagues in a confidential and sensitive manner.
• Able to work autonomously whilst using clinical decision-making skills at an advanced level.
• Demonstrable ability to work in a busy environment and cope when the service is under pressure.
• Takes pride in their work and have a strong sense of personal and team accountability.
• Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
• Good organisational skills.
• To be flexible and multi skilled to ensure the priorities of the PCN can be met.

Desirable

• Computer literacy with a range of software, databases, spread sheets.
• Has an understanding of SystmOne.
• Is able to complete task, two week wait referrals and templates.
• Seeks out, and takes, opportunities for improving the service offered, with customer focus in foresight.

Experience

Essential

• Has previous experience working at an advanced level in primary care, urgent care or emergency care. Evidence of working at an Advanced level. Experience of managing a range of primary/urgent care conditions for adult and paediatric patients. Demonstrates a willingness to do telephone triage. Reflect on own practice and direct own learning.

Desirable

• Previously worked as part of a integrated team

Personal qualities

Essential

• Self-motivation and reliability.
• Professional role model for advanced clinical practice.
• Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Professional and empathetic manner.
• Ability to deal with distressing, unpleasant circumstances and difficult personnel issues.
• Can do attitude.
• Standard computer and key board skills.

UK Registration

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