Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in Fortuneswell

Role Overview

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and plan to reach complex and critical judgments and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role. To strategically innovate, deliver, clinically audit, and evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison. This will include leadership of the Primary Care team, including long term conditions management, enhanced assessment and diagnostic intervention services and health promotion activities and be in line with the NHS Plan, public health indicators and National Service Frameworks.

To establish and provide robust expert clinical leadership to the Primary Care team with a sound understanding of models of care and evidence-based practice to provide a pro‑active approach to ensure quality, trauma informed, and outcome driven services on a day-to-day basis. To ensure monitoring systems are in place, to promote the development of evidence‑based practice in this specialist field and to promote research as appropriate.

To be responsible for the development of and participation in managerial and professional clinical supervision programme for the Primary Care team to ensure all staff receive appropriate supervision, training, and annual appraisal and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice. To implement effective and appropriate patient centred care planning tools and a trauma informed model of delivery and integrated services within the establishment.

The post holder will work as an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team and working collaboratively with other Clinical Leads within the service, GPs, psychiatrists, and other clinicians to maintain and review service needs as required. The post holder will be part of skilled multidisciplinary teams comprising all healthcare staff, including strategic partners, and prison managing a single referral pathway.

Management Responsibilities

To support the HoHC in accountability for the delivery of the Quality Agenda; participate in the effective management of clinical risk, the identification of best practice and addressing remedial actions as required. To manage a small, complex Primary Care clinical caseload. To develop, implement and maintain the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service. To be responsible for day-to-day management & co‑ordination of Primary Care provision and ensure integration with all other teams within healthcare delivery. Ensuring all Primary Care clinics and consultations are delivered in an effective & timely way, in line with service needs and supporting the HoHC in ensuring the same for all other healthcare teams.

Leadership

Establish effective communications and networks to develop practice within healthcare. Contribute to the development of formal education, training and development programmes. Participate fully in clinical and managerial supervision. Participate fully in the Clinical Governance Forum. Develop ways in which to improve learning, clinical practice and the patient experience.

Clinical

Assess, diagnose, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis or complex needs.

Important Information

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation, Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID, Proof of address documentation. Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants. If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).