Job summary
PICS is a GP owned organisation and we are looking for multiple Advanced Nurse Practitioners who want to provide excellent holistic patient care.We offer extended access management in 4 GP Practices:
- Hama Medical Centre, Kimberley
- Whyburn Medical Practice, Hucknall
- Peacock Healthcare, Carlton Hill
- Meden Medical Services, Warsop
We oversee GP Practices and health centres, working closely with doctors, nurses and practice teams to drive up the standards of patient care, improve safety and patient experience, and support staff to foster a secure and positive environment. We produce evidence-based governance frameworks, and provide a bank of staff, advice and support to achieve safe, stable and sustainable services.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) work autonomously and is accountable for their own professional actions.
- Undertakes Clinical Nursing Practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary health care services.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients attending primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in surgery or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in care homes who require medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Triage requests for home visits to establish which clinician is required for the visit requested.
KEY REQUIREMENTS:
- Registered General Nurse through NMC
- Recognised Nursing Practitioner degree or equivalent
- Independent Nurse Practitioner
About us
The core value of PICS is that We Care about our patients, carers and families, our partners and all the people we work. This is underpinned by our core values and our can do approach. We regularly review our values and ensure these are integral at all levels of the organisation. More information can be found on our website: https://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS We offer a comprehensive package which includes:
- Part of a team of experienced practitioners and supported by a Primary Care Lead Nurse who will help support your professional development
- Part of the NHS Pension Scheme or an alternative government-based scheme (based on eligibility) with generous employer contributions
- Competitive salaries with clear progression pathways referenced to NHS Agenda for Change
- Fully integrated with NHS IT systems
- Generous annual leave entitlement which references NHS Agenda for Change and recognises previous NHS service
- On appointment 27 days plus 8 days bank holiday entitlement
- After 5 years 29 days plus 8 days bank holiday entitlement
- After 10 years 33 days plus 8 days bank holiday entitlement
- Competitive leave entitlement that includes sickness pay and maternity leave
- Join a caring culture and a company of can-do experts
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
- To act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the condition of patients attending within primary care initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
- To provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
- To develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods, and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of the practice population.
- To provide education and training to other staff and students.
- To undertake research as part of the role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Nursing Practice
- The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) work autonomously and is accountable for their own professional actions.
- Undertakes Clinical Nursing Practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary health care services.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients attending primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in surgery or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in care homes who require medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Triage requests for home visits to establish which clinician is required for the visit requested.
- Telephone Consultations.
- Refers patients to other medical specialities for assessment if deemed appropriate.
- Refers patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations including referral for x-ray.
- Interprets a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures.
- Makes critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job e.g. first contact with patients presenting acutely and manages care in the presence and absence of protocols.
- Makes decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients to Hospital Consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
- Advises and supports others where standard protocols do not apply.
- Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
- Works within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management.
Care and Programme Management
- Develops and manages highly specialised programmes of care and care packages and provides highly specialised advice concerning care normally beyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g. establishes differential diagnoses, management/treatment plans and makes referrals as appropriate. Makes fast track referrals.
- Communicates highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives, and carers.
- Initiates the process of diagnosis with patients suspected to have a chronic disease e.g. diabetes, COPD, asthma, IHD referring to other clinical staff as appropriate.
- Contribute to practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme.
- Contributes to disease registers.
- Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary.
- Undertakes annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage and medication reviews.
- Refers to other members of the extended primary health care team as appropriate e.g. chiropodist, dietician, specialist Nurses.
- To actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to escalate concerns about radicalisation.
Strategic Development of Primary Care Services
- Contributes to the strategic development of primary care and public health services to meet patient and population needs within the practice and across the wider organisation. Works/liaises across multi-professional and agency boundaries.
- Works at the forefront of practice innovation. Determines how to deal with ambiguous or unique problems to develop and advance primary care services for the benefit of patients, carers, and communities.
- Develop links within the CCG and other local and national bodies relevant to primary care Nursing initiatives.
Health Improvement
- Initiates and carries out programmes of health screening and ensures other team members are aware of health agendas and screening programmes.
- Introduces innovation in practice to meet on going health need demands of the practice.
- Works to introduce new developments that will improve health outcomes for patients and is able to demonstrate through written and presentation these developments i.e. Sexual Health agenda.
- Shares innovation and new learning with others.
- Supports practitioners in profiling the practice population to initiate contribute and promote improved health and prevent disease in individuals and groups.
- Represents individuals and families interests when they are not able to do so themselves.
- Makes referrals to statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate.
Communication
- Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and frequently deals with situations which are hostile or emotive.
- Uses developed communication, negotiation, conflict management skills which require empathy, reassurance, and persuasive skills where there can be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome.
- Regularly communicates service-related information to GPs, Practice Manager, Nursing and Administrative staff, patients, relatives, and carers.
- Makes operational judgements, manages conflicting views, and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion.
- Builds and communicates therapeutic working relationships with a wide array of statutory and voluntary organisations for the benefit of patient care and facilitates good working relationships
- Develops and delivers presentations to large groups e.g. local and national conferences, clinical meetings, empowers staff to develop presentation skills to promote good practice.
Manage and Lead Self and Others
- Develops a special interest (dependent on experience) within the practice e.g. teenage clinic, baby clinic, nursing home, cytology
- Encourage and motivate others to be forward thinking in ideas that address the health needs of the practice that will be innovative whilst managing and developing new ways of working, e.g. Implanon clinic, teenage health clinic.
- Develops and leads on evidence-based practice.
- Promotes effective communication and relationships within the team.
- Partakes in monthly clinical supervision for own development.
- Actively participates in clinical and practice meetings.
- Develops own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service, through attendance on study days, self-directed learning, and reflection on practice.
- Integrates theory into practice and establishes formal links with educational institutions.
- Assists in the mentorship and assessment of trainee Nurse Practitioners.
- Acts as mentor for pre-registration students and other staff within the practice.
- Leads on setting standards and promotes best practice.
- Operates high standards of probity.
Influence and Develop Policies for the role as ANP
- Responsible for establishing how policies should be interpreted and translated within the practice.
- Implements and adheres to local/national, clinical commissioning group and practice policies, proposes developments and improvements to service delivery
For more information please download the supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
- To act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the condition of patients attending within primary care initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
- To provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
- To develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods, and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of the practice population.
- To provide education and training to other staff and students.
- To undertake research as part of the role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Nursing Practice
- The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) work autonomously and is accountable for their own professional actions.
- Undertakes Clinical Nursing Practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary health care services.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients attending primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in surgery or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in care homes who require medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
- Triage requests for home visits to establish which clinician is required for the visit requested.
- Telephone Consultations.
- Refers patients to other medical specialities for assessment if deemed appropriate.
- Refers patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations including referral for x-ray.
- Interprets a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures.
- Makes critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job e.g. first contact with patients presenting acutely and manages care in the presence and absence of protocols.
- Makes decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients to Hospital Consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
- Advises and supports others where standard protocols do not apply.
- Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
- Works within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management.
Care and Programme Management
- Develops and manages highly specialised programmes of care and care packages and provides highly specialised advice concerning care normally beyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g. establishes differential diagnoses, management/treatment plans and makes referrals as appropriate. Makes fast track referrals.
- Communicates highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives, and carers.
- Initiates the process of diagnosis with patients suspected to have a chronic disease e.g. diabetes, COPD, asthma, IHD referring to other clinical staff as appropriate.
- Contribute to practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme.
- Contributes to disease registers.
- Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary.
- Undertakes annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage and medication reviews.
- Refers to other members of the extended primary health care team as appropriate e.g. chiropodist, dietician, specialist Nurses.
- To actively implement safeguarding protocols for children and vulnerable adults and to know who to refer to and how to escalate concerns about radicalisation.
Strategic Development of Primary Care Services
- Contributes to the strategic development of primary care and public health services to meet patient and population needs within the practice and across the wider organisation. Works/liaises across multi-professional and agency boundaries.
- Works at the forefront of practice innovation. Determines how to deal with ambiguous or unique problems to develop and advance primary care services for the benefit of patients, carers, and communities.
- Develop links within the CCG and other local and national bodies relevant to primary care Nursing initiatives.
Health Improvement
- Initiates and carries out programmes of health screening and ensures other team members are aware of health agendas and screening programmes.
- Introduces innovation in practice to meet on going health need demands of the practice.
- Works to introduce new developments that will improve health outcomes for patients and is able to demonstrate through written and presentation these developments i.e. Sexual Health agenda.
- Shares innovation and new learning with others.
- Supports practitioners in profiling the practice population to initiate contribute and promote improved health and prevent disease in individuals and groups.
- Represents individuals and families interests when they are not able to do so themselves.
- Makes referrals to statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate.
Communication
- Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and frequently deals with situations which are hostile or emotive.
- Uses developed communication, negotiation, conflict management skills which require empathy, reassurance, and persuasive skills where there can be significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome.
- Regularly communicates service-related information to GPs, Practice Manager, Nursing and Administrative staff, patients, relatives, and carers.
- Makes operational judgements, manages conflicting views, and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion.
- Builds and communicates therapeutic working relationships with a wide array of statutory and voluntary organisations for the benefit of patient care and facilitates good working relationships
- Develops and delivers presentations to large groups e.g. local and national conferences, clinical meetings, empowers staff to develop presentation skills to promote good practice.
Manage and Lead Self and Others
- Develops a special interest (dependent on experience) within the practice e.g. teenage clinic, baby clinic, nursing home, cytology
- Encourage and motivate others to be forward thinking in ideas that address the health needs of the practice that will be innovative whilst managing and developing new ways of working, e.g. Implanon clinic, teenage health clinic.
- Develops and leads on evidence-based practice.
- Promotes effective communication and relationships within the team.
- Partakes in monthly clinical supervision for own development.
- Actively participates in clinical and practice meetings.
- Develops own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service, through attendance on study days, self-directed learning, and reflection on practice.
- Integrates theory into practice and establishes formal links with educational institutions.
- Assists in the mentorship and assessment of trainee Nurse Practitioners.
- Acts as mentor for pre-registration students and other staff within the practice.
- Leads on setting standards and promotes best practice.
- Operates high standards of probity.
Influence and Develop Policies for the role as ANP
- Responsible for establishing how policies should be interpreted and translated within the practice.
- Implements and adheres to local/national, clinical commissioning group and practice policies, proposes developments and improvements to service delivery
For more information please download the supporting documents.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your NMC professional registration.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Qualifications
Essential
- Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
- Please provide your registration number of your NMC professional registration.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
