Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- NHS
- Part Time
- Workington
- 54104.13 - 61128.87 a year
Job Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner to join North Cumbria Primary Care Limited. Based at the Workington GP Practice you will work independently, be expected to work as part of our new total triage team and seeing patients in their own homes. This role requires working 12-hour shifts on a flexible rota, including working a share of weekends on a rotational basis with other Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioners. The shifts schedule includes Weekdays - 07.45am 20.15 pm Weekends 10am 4pm.
You will implement a range of care interventions including prescribing for patients presenting with un-differential and undiagnosed problems.
MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and independent prescribing qualification are essential for this role.
The Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner will be fully supported by our GP team but will always aim to work independently and where appropriate, in collaboration with other health professionals
Main duties of the job
- Be able to demonstrate safe and competent clinical decision making, critical thinking and expert care
- Provide advanced levels of clinical practice, knowledge and skills
- Actively engage patients and carers in the management of their health, promoting health and well being
- Undertake history and physical examination to accurately assess the patients condition
- Request, interpret and act upon relevant diagnostic test and procedures
- Request, process and interpret pathology and other tests results as required.
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Prescribe medication in accordance with current legislation
- Maintain comprehensive, contemporaneous, and accurate nursing/medical records and documentation, utilising information technology where available to facilitate caseload management
- Manage wide-ranging and sometimes complex presentations
- Functions at a high level in relation to communication skills through patient consultation and nursing assessment of physical, psychological and social needs
- Have a flexible approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities.
About us
North Cumbria Primary Care Ltd (NCPC) is an innovative not for profit social enterprise, established to create a network of great surgeries which sustains and supports the development of general practice across the local area. We enable our member general practices to continue to operate as local family practices with the benefit of a large and robust infrastructure to provide support.
Job responsibilities
Work as an autonomous practitioner, working independently within their professional boundaries to assess patients with un-differential and undiagnosed problems, initiate treatment, investigations, advice and management of problems using professional autonomous decision making processes
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Evidence to demonstrate;
- Excellent clinical skills
- Good communication skills
- Commitment to ongoing training and education to develop clinical skills
- Demonstrate clinical competence in minor illness and injury management
- Excellent organisational skills
Desirable
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Ability to work as an autonomous Practitioner
- Required to deal with undifferentiated and undiagnosed patients.
- Safeguarding vulnerable people
- Ability to empower patients by appropriate health teaching and advice
- Knowledge of Health and Safety within clinical practice and associated areas
- Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area.
- Knowledge of clinical quality standards, e.g. CQC and evidence of implementing and monitoring these in practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Extended clinical skills relevant to level of practice and recent clinical processes
- Post registration experience
Desirable
- Experience of primary care
- Working in an urgent care setting (primary care, minor injuries, accident and emergency or walk in centre)
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered professional with the NMC
- Advanced clinical practice
- Safeguarding adults and children course at appropriate level
- Basic Life Support
- Independent prescribing qualification
- BSc Hons Nurse Practitioner Qualification/Relevant post registration advanced clinical qualifications
- Evidence of continual professional development
Desirable
- Non-medical X ray referrer and up to date IRMER
- Masters ANP Qualification
- Mentoring/teaching qualification
- Minor injuries experience
- Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner credentialing
Other Requirements
Essential
- Able to work across 7 day week.
- Background of working in a fast paced Primary Health Care or acute environment
- Flexibility to meet the demand of ad hoc late finishes if patients remain in the unit after the service closes
- Be adaptable to changing needs of the service
Desirable
- Full clean driving licence
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).
Employer details
Employer name
James Street Group Practice
Address
James Street
Workington
Cumbria
CA14 2DL
Employer's website
https://www.jamesstreet-workington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
