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Candidates should have a strong commitment to ongoing professional development, adhere to nursing regulations, and demonstrate the ability to assess and improve care delivery. Key personal attributes include strong communication skills and the capacity to work within clinical and ethical guidelines. The position also offers the support of clinical supervision to enhance the ANP's effectiveness in the role. The ANP will play a vital part in health promotion, chronic disease management, and safeguarding, while ensuring compliance with local and national health policies.
This is an exciting new ANP role, working for the Newbury Street Practice based at Wantage Health Centre. The role will be predominately focused on same day, medically urgent patients.
Advanced nurse practitioners work autonomously within the practice using their enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems relating to minor illness or injury, abdominal pains, chest pains and headaches. They are autonomous in making decisions based on assessment, diagnosis and interpretation of test results. They can independently prescribe appropriate medication, evaluate or refer to other specialists if necessary. ANP's in this role will focus solely on medically urgent patients.
This is a fiull time position and we are flexible in working hours Mon - Fri
About us
Advanced nurse practitioners work autonomously within the practice using their enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems relating to minor illness or injury, abdominal pains, chest pains and headaches. They are autonomous in making decisions based on assessment, diagnosis and interpretation of test results. They can independently prescribe appropriate medication, evaluate or refer to other specialists if necessary. ANP's in this role will focus solely on medically urgent patients.
Key duties and responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Advanced 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:
1. Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice
2. Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
3. Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients health
4. Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
5. Undertake the collection of pathological specimens?
6. Request pathology services as necessary
7. Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required?
8. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
9. Ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively
10. Chaperone patients where necessary
11. Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
12. Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
13. Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
14. Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to guidance
15. Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
16. Contribute to practice targets (QOF, etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
17. Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.)
18. Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
19. Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
20. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
21. Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Personal attributes
1. enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to all colleagues to meet the needs of the service
2. be verified against the ANP roadmap
3. recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
4. assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
5. participate in research and utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
Administrative requirements
1. produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
2. be aware of data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality issues particularly within a GP practice.
3. use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information
4. review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.
Supervision
The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the GP Practice to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.
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