Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Band 8a

HCRG Care Group

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Job summary

HCRG Care Group are leading the delivery of a new Virtual Ward, a new model of care to prevent avoidable admission to hospital!

We are looking anAdvanced Nurse Practitioner(Nurse or AHP) to join us in a fantastic opportunity to be part of a new venture, developing innovative care pathways and using remote technology to provide acute care at home.

You will be based in our Peasedown St John location but work with the integrated community health & care services and peoples homes. Service hours run from 8am-8pm, 7 days a week.

As an Advanced NursePractitioner you will take a lead in the advanced assessment, management and treatment of patients in community settings with particular focus on those referred from the 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) initially and then develop wider referral pathways.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary, acute and social care interfaces in BaNES. You will be responsible for coordinating the provision of specialist interventions to meet the urgent health care needs of people who would have traditionally been hospitalised or those requiring facilitated timely discharge from emergency departments.

If you are a Non-medical Prescriber with highly specialised clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clinical conditions, we would love to hear from you! We are open to applications from candidates from NMC or HCPC professions,

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced NursePractitioner, you will report to the Virtual Ward NurseLead and into the Head of Operations. The team will consist of 18 full-time equivalent colleagues in a combination of advanced practice clinical roles and non-registered support roles.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Supervision, support, professional development, appraisals, rota management to ensure delivery of an effective and progressive service.
Delivering evidence based advanced nursepractice skills to ensure the appropriate management of patients needs.
Using skills of assessment, diagnosis, interpretation of tests, forward planning of care & treatment.
Timely recognition of deteriorating patients, appropriate response, escalation & documentation.
Routine writing of drug charts to prescribe medication for patients whilst in the Virtual Ward and in preparation for discharge.
Participate in, initiate, and deliver audit & research to identify current practice, drive continuous improvement & contribute to the development of new knowledge, theory & practice to benefit patients & colleagues.
Identifying poor practice & supporting improvement opportunities as part of a Just Culture based on reflection, learning & improvement through SBAR completion, thematic review.

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

15 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/25229/8147

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Bath

Avon

BA2 8SG

Job description

Job responsibilities

The ideal candidate for this role will:

Be Registered with the NMC or HCPC educated to degree level
Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
Registered current Non Medical Precsriber qualification
Significant previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
Proven significant experience in leading and managing a team
Masters degree
Clean driving licence and access to a car

As anAdvanced NursePractitioner, youll be part of our valued team atPeasedown St John.

You will feel valued as anAdvanced NursePractitionerwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£50,952 - £57,349 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The ideal candidate for this role will:

Be Registered with the NMC or HCPC educated to degree level
Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
Registered current Non Medical Precsriber qualification
Significant previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
Proven significant experience in leading and managing a team
Masters degree
Clean driving licence and access to a car

As anAdvanced NursePractitioner, youll be part of our valued team atPeasedown St John.

You will feel valued as anAdvanced NursePractitionerwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£50,952 - £57,349 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Person Specification

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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.