Nurse Practitioner inNewcastle inNewcastle PUBLISHED MON 28 OCT 2024

Wolstanton Medical Centre is looking for a Nurse Practitioner to join our expanding nursing team on a part-time basis. The Nurse Practitioner will provide high-quality and responsive nursing care to our patient population.

To be responsible for the delivery of evidence-based nursing services, working as part of the practice multi-disciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.

Working autonomously, the Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

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The following are the core responsibilities of the Nurse Practitioner. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes
• Develop, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for acute and non-acute conditions
• Support the clinical team in the development of individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Prescribe medication in accordance with PGD and within own scope of practice
• Review medication for effectiveness, need and national guidance
• Request and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on side effects, common interactions and dosage
• Support patients to ensure compliance with prescribed medications
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler, etc.) to patients
• Provide travel medicine services
• Request pathology services as necessary, processing and interpreting results as required
• Refer patients directly to other services as appropriate
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with legislation
• Ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Develop, implement and embed well woman clinics
• Develop, implement and embed well man clinics
• Chaperone patients where necessary
• Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Recognise, assess and refer patients with community health needs, developing strategies for effective care pathways
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Understand organisation and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately

In addition to the primary key responsibilities, the Nurse Prescriber may be requested to:

• Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
• Contribute to the implementation of an effective training programme for staff and students within the organisation
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Support and participate in shared learning within the organisation
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
• Be aware of and contribute to the planning and implementation of Integrated Care System (ICS) patient pathway initiatives
• Participate in the review of significant and near miss events applying a structured approach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)
• Maintain professional registration and adhere to revalidation requirements