Job summary
We are
searching for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner with
a passion for high standards of patient care to complement our busy team. The
clinical team comprises of five dynamic and approachable GP partners, GP
registrars, two Nurse Practitioners and a further two Nurses currently undertaking the ACP course. Other allied health professionals include a clinical pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, chronic disease nurses,
treatment room nurses and health care assistants.
We are
entirely flexible in terms of working hours and would be willing to negotiate a
full time or part time job plan with the right candidate. This could include
working half days, shifts around the school day or home working. There would be
a clinical need for one or two home visits most days, however the
administrative burden (script signing, processing of clinical letters) in this
role will be negligible.
Main duties of the job
- The majority of the workload will be focussed on telephone triage, booked face to face consultations, telephone consultations and home visits. There will be minimal requirement for duties relating to prescription queries, repeat prescription signing or secondary care correspondence as these tasks are predominantly undertaken by the GP partners, the clinical pharmacist and the medicine management team.
- The successful candidate would be expected to make professional and autonomous decisions in relation to patients presenting problems to reach a differential diagnosis. We are a supportive team with a strong emphasis on learning and development and therefore, seeking advice from colleagues in difficult clinical scenarios is encouraged.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in their clinical decision making.
- Manage emergency situations including life threatening illness, ensuring urgent transport via 999 ambulance is arranged for patients whose condition requires swift transfer to hospital.
- To manage daily surgeries initially comprising 10 minute face-to-face consultations.
- Provide home visits as required with an expectation of two to three lunch-time visits per working day
About us
Come and join our
friendly team, a wonderful opportunity awaits.
A Medical Centre
with a proven track record and magnificent team spirit.
Lancashire Coastal
GMS, Semi-rural, Part-dispensing practice for 11,500 patients; with large
extended, modern & spacious premises
M6 and Train Station
30 minutes away
Lake District 60
minutes drive
Excellent local
Primary Schools - in catchment area for both Lancaster Grammar Schools
High QOF because of
excellent team spirit
Rated Outstanding
by CQC - CQC rating includes Outstanding for Effective & Well Led and
Outstanding in all six of the population groups.
5 weeks holidays
Large,
multi-disciplinary team including GPs, ANPs, Clinical Pharmacist, Chronic
Disease trained Practice Nurses, Treatment room Practice Nurses, HCAs, Dispensary
and a large reception, admin and managerial team.
This is an exciting
opportunity for a proactive and dynamic Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our team to
support our GPs, Nurses, HCAs and Administration teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
We are searching for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a passion for high standards of patient care to complement our busy team. The clinical team comprises of five dynamic and approachable GP partners, GP registrars, two Nurse Practitioners and a further two Nurses currently undertaking the ACP course. Other allied health professionals include a clinical pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, chronic disease nurses, treatment room nurses and health care assistants.
We are entirely flexible in terms of working hours and would be willing to negotiate a full time or part time job plan with the right candidate. This could include working half days, shifts around the school day or home working. There would be a clinical need for one or two home visits most days, however the administrative burden (script signing, processing of clinical letters) in this role will be negligible.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- The majority of the workload will be focussed on telephone triage, booked face to face consultations, telephone consultations and home visits. There will be minimal requirement for duties relating to prescription queries, repeat prescription signing or secondary care correspondence as these tasks are predominantly undertaken by the GP partners, the clinical pharmacist and the medicine management team.
- The successful candidate would be expected to make professional and autonomous decisions in relation to patients presenting problems to reach a differential diagnosis. We are a supportive team with a strong emphasis on learning and development and therefore, seeking advice from colleagues in difficult clinical scenarios is encouraged.
- Review patients under your care to ensure current treatments and diagnosis remain current.
- Undertake age appropriate physical examinations not usually undertaken by general nurses.
- Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in their clinical decision making.
- Manage emergency situations including life threatening illness, ensuring urgent transport via 999 ambulance is arranged for patients whose condition requires swift transfer to hospital.
- When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the Primary Health Care Team or Secondary Care specialities. This may involve Fast Track referrals for suspected cancers, Urgent and routine referrals to hospital specialities, or referrals to Social services for safeguarding concerns.
- Arrange appropriate investigations including bloods and radiology requests.
- Review pathology and radiology results for your patients and act on the findings.
- We expect the successful candidate to prescribe medication for patients in line with Practice, Local and National Guidelines ensuring efficacy and safety. They will provide detailed information to patients on drug treatments and raise awareness of the potential side effects of the medications prescribed.
- They will promote Public Health by undertaking screening procedures and offering immunisations, raising health awareness at every opportunity i.e. smoking cessation advice and advising on safe drinking limits.
- Work collaboratively with other health professionals and agencies to provide a seamless primary care service. We work closely with district nurses, podiatrists, community matrons and the community heart failure team, all of whom utilise our building as a base or to run clinics.
- Act on all concerns regarding Safeguarding in both adults and children, referring onto the appropriate agencies.
- To manage daily surgeries initially comprising 10 minute face-to-face consultations.
- Provide home visits as required with an expectation of two to three lunch-time visits per working day
- Sign paper scripts & operate EPS.
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- To maintain professional registration
- To work within the current NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- To maintain good lines of communication with both the Partners and Practice Management team
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
- To promote effective communications with peers
- To promote good communications within the multidisciplinary team
- To participate in performance appraisal
- To participate in educational programmes within the practice
- To maintain and update professional knowledge across all service area, monitoring own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of clinical audit and reflection
- To keep clear and contemporaneous notes of all consultations and treatments
- To ensure data collection requirements are maintained
- To attend and contribute to Practice meetings as required
- To maintain confidentiality in all areas at all times
- To train, develop and support junior colleagues including the mentoring of current and any future employees who may be trainee Nurse Practitioners, trainee Non-medical Prescribers, Pre -registration student Nurses, FY2 Drs, Medical Students and Health Care Assistants
- Support administration and reception staff in their daily activities, offering advice when required
- To build and develop good working relationships with other service providers across partner organisations
- This job description is not exhaustive and may need to be amended over time. A Flexible attitude and close liaison with other members of the practice is an integral part of this post.
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.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
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 peoples 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:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, 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 individual performance review, 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.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
We are searching for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a passion for high standards of patient care to complement our busy team. The clinical team comprises of five dynamic and approachable GP partners, GP registrars, two Nurse Practitioners and a further two Nurses currently undertaking the ACP course. Other allied health professionals include a clinical pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, chronic disease nurses, treatment room nurses and health care assistants.
We are entirely flexible in terms of working hours and would be willing to negotiate a full time or part time job plan with the right candidate. This could include working half days, shifts around the school day or home working. There would be a clinical need for one or two home visits most days, however the administrative burden (script signing, processing of clinical letters) in this role will be negligible.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- The majority of the workload will be focussed on telephone triage, booked face to face consultations, telephone consultations and home visits. There will be minimal requirement for duties relating to prescription queries, repeat prescription signing or secondary care correspondence as these tasks are predominantly undertaken by the GP partners, the clinical pharmacist and the medicine management team.
- The successful candidate would be expected to make professional and autonomous decisions in relation to patients presenting problems to reach a differential diagnosis. We are a supportive team with a strong emphasis on learning and development and therefore, seeking advice from colleagues in difficult clinical scenarios is encouraged.
- Review patients under your care to ensure current treatments and diagnosis remain current.
- Undertake age appropriate physical examinations not usually undertaken by general nurses.
- Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in their clinical decision making.
- Manage emergency situations including life threatening illness, ensuring urgent transport via 999 ambulance is arranged for patients whose condition requires swift transfer to hospital.
- When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the Primary Health Care Team or Secondary Care specialities. This may involve Fast Track referrals for suspected cancers, Urgent and routine referrals to hospital specialities, or referrals to Social services for safeguarding concerns.
- Arrange appropriate investigations including bloods and radiology requests.
- Review pathology and radiology results for your patients and act on the findings.
- We expect the successful candidate to prescribe medication for patients in line with Practice, Local and National Guidelines ensuring efficacy and safety. They will provide detailed information to patients on drug treatments and raise awareness of the potential side effects of the medications prescribed.
- They will promote Public Health by undertaking screening procedures and offering immunisations, raising health awareness at every opportunity i.e. smoking cessation advice and advising on safe drinking limits.
- Work collaboratively with other health professionals and agencies to provide a seamless primary care service. We work closely with district nurses, podiatrists, community matrons and the community heart failure team, all of whom utilise our building as a base or to run clinics.
- Act on all concerns regarding Safeguarding in both adults and children, referring onto the appropriate agencies.
- To manage daily surgeries initially comprising 10 minute face-to-face consultations.
- Provide home visits as required with an expectation of two to three lunch-time visits per working day
- Sign paper scripts & operate EPS.
Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:
- To maintain professional registration
- To work within the current NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- To maintain good lines of communication with both the Partners and Practice Management team
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
- To promote effective communications with peers
- To promote good communications within the multidisciplinary team
- To participate in performance appraisal
- To participate in educational programmes within the practice
- To maintain and update professional knowledge across all service area, monitoring own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of clinical audit and reflection
- To keep clear and contemporaneous notes of all consultations and treatments
- To ensure data collection requirements are maintained
- To attend and contribute to Practice meetings as required
- To maintain confidentiality in all areas at all times
- To train, develop and support junior colleagues including the mentoring of current and any future employees who may be trainee Nurse Practitioners, trainee Non-medical Prescribers, Pre -registration student Nurses, FY2 Drs, Medical Students and Health Care Assistants
- Support administration and reception staff in their daily activities, offering advice when required
- To build and develop good working relationships with other service providers across partner organisations
- This job description is not exhaustive and may need to be amended over time. A Flexible attitude and close liaison with other members of the practice is an integral part of this post.
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.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
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 peoples 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:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, 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 individual performance review, 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.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Disclosure Barring Service check
- Occupational health clearance
- Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development commensurate with the role of an ANP
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
- Flexibility to work outside core office hours
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters degree required for qualification post December 2020 refer to RCN Credentialing for Advanced Level of Nursing Practice.
- Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
- Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
- Minor illness qualification
Desirable
- Qualified triage nurse
- Teaching qualification
- ALS and PALS
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practice within the four pillars
- Job plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Disclosure Barring Service check
- Occupational health clearance
- Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development commensurate with the role of an ANP
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
- Flexibility to work outside core office hours
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters degree required for qualification post December 2020 refer to RCN Credentialing for Advanced Level of Nursing Practice.
- Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
- Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
- Minor illness qualification
Desirable
- Qualified triage nurse
- Teaching qualification
- ALS and PALS
Experience
Essential
- Experience of practice within the four pillars
- Job plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
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).
