Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The role will involve the assessment, diagnosis, treatment or referral of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holder will work within the Advanced/Emergency Care Practitioners level of competency.

Job Responsibilities

• To provide triage, assessment, diagnosis, and appropriate treatment/referral to patients according to their needs, either in the Practice or patients' homes.
• To support the development of an on the day emergency patient service within the Practice.
• To undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action to manage patient care, distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings in order to relate them to a possible diagnosis, using clinical guidelines as appropriate.
• To signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway.
• To refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally agreed healthcare pathways.
• To discharge or treat, as appropriate and within the practitioners' scope of practice.
• To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
• To liaise and interact with multi-professional teams across organisational boundaries, including primary care, social services and secondary care providers according to patient needs and appropriate care pathways.
• Promote collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all members of the team.
• To maintain communication with all healthcare professionals and outside agencies to ensure seamless, patient-centred service provision.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• To assist in maintaining accurate data collection.

About us / Organisational

• To ensure effective time management and prioritisation of workload.
• To ensure the security, safe storage and maintenance of any allocated equipment and goods.
• To ensure practice is within good clinical governance and based on sound up-to-date clinical evidence.
• Where appropriate, to identify and assess any risks associated with patient care or to oneself and communicate these risks to the appropriate clinical manager.
• Be aware of and adhere to all relevant guidance and legislation relating to: Data Protection, Patient Confidentiality, GDPR, and Data Security.

Learning & Development

• Maintain own competences.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences).
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
• To review and expand the role over time in line with the practices' needs and the practitioners' development goals.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required, and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.