Advanced Nurse Practitioner(ANP)

Are you an enthusiastic, experienced ANP looking for work in a friendly and supportive team? Would you like a positive influence on the future development of the practice? If so, please apply! An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic ANP to join our friendly forward-thinking team to complement our existing clinical team at Kensington Road GP Practice.

Main duties of the job

• As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) you will be an experienced clinician who, acting within your professional boundaries, will provide same day care for patients registered at the surgery. This will include telephone triage, history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care, including assessment and diagnostic skills.
• We envisage the ANP will develop close long-term relationships with patients and work in partnership with them to achieve optimum health.

About us

• We are an innovative and forward-thinking practice offering exciting opportunities for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner.
• We value the importance of professional development and offer a supportive educational and learning environment.
• Flexible working hours may be considered.

Job responsibilities

• Act as Advanced Nurse Practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles.
• Undertake consultations with patients as an autonomous practitioner using own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat or refer patients.
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug-and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Make direct referrals to primary, secondary and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols.
• Work with patients and their carers to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Ensure care plans are in place, including emergency health care plans following discussion with the patient and family members.
• Ensure patients receive high quality clinical care, delivered in a timely manner.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocol, within scope of practice.
• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of each and every patient contact.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner and as part of multi-disciplinary and multiagency teams to ensure patients needs are met.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.

Professional

• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and at all times work within the scope of professional practice.
• Ensure that professional practice adheres to organisational and NMC policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain a professional manner and act as a positive role model to other members of the Primary Care team.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information pertaining to patients and staff.
• Deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.

Communication

• Communicate effectively with patients and families regarding complex information about their care.
• Provide advice and information to patients, carers and their families where appropriate.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, allied health professionals and operational staff to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated service.
• Promote and demonstrate effective communication networks within the organisation, with partner organisations and other service providers.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

It is the responsibility of all employees to work with managers to achieve a healthy and safe environment, and to take reasonable care of themselves and others.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

It is the responsibility of all employees to support Networks vision for sustainable development. To undertake their duties in a way that is not wasteful of environment, financial and social resources.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

It is the responsibility of all employees to support the organisation's vision of promoting a positive approach to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of Equality failure to do so may result in disciplinary action.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Organisation is committed to providing a high quality service through the effective management and development of its employees. The Performance Appraisal process ensures that The Organisation is able to achieve its key aims of delivering cost effective, high quality and responsive healthcare, whilst enabling employees to understand how the outcome of their contribution fits within these overall aims.

STATUTORY AND MANDATORY TRAINING

The Organisation will assess the requirements for Statutory and Mandatory training for all new staff prior to commencement and aims to ensure that all Statutory and Mandatory training requirements are completed during the first 2 weeks of commencement.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS

The Organisation is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults within its care. As an employee you are accountable to ensure that you know how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. The organisation will support you in this process by providing training, support and advice.

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

All employees are expected to follow consistently high standards in the prevention and control of infection, especially with reference to hand hygiene, adherence to dress/uniform code and for clinical staff all procedures involving aseptic technique. Participate in mandatory training and annual updates. Protecting patients from infection is everyone's responsibility.

SMOKE-FREE POLICY

The Organisation operates a Smoke-free policy. This means that smoking is not permitted anywhere within any of the premises. In the interests of promoting responsible healthcare all staff are to refrain from smoking when off-site in uniform or wearing an identifying badge in any public place.

CONFIDENTIALITY

In the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information of a personal and/or clinical nature, including information relating to the Organisation, its clients, patients, employees and other parties. You must not use such information for your own benefit nor disclose it to other persons without the consent of the Organisation and the party concerned unless required to do so by law. This applies both during and after the termination of your employment. Any breach of confidentiality during employment may be regarded as serious misconduct and could lead to summary dismissal.

This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.

DATA PROTECTION

As your employer, The Organisation needs to keep information about you for purposes connected with your employment. The sort of information we will hold includes information for payroll purposes, references, contact names and addresses and records relating to your career with The Organisation. These uses are covered by our notification with the Information Commissioners Office under the Data Protection Act 1998. The information which we hold will be for our management and administrative use only but we may need to disclose some information we hold about you to relevant third parties (e.g. Inland Revenue).

RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

As an employee, you are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create or use as part of your work within The Organisation and they remain the property of The Organisation. This includes patient, financial, personal and administrative records, whether paper based or on computer. All such records are considered public records and you have a legal duty of confidence to all service users. All staff have a responsibility to ensure information quality standards are achieved.

INFORMATION SECURITY

Under the provisions of the Data Protection act, it is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that all personal data relating to patients and members of staff, whether held in manual or electronic format, is kept secure at all times. Computer passwords must not be shared either between systems or users. The Organisation may monitor e-mail messages, any files stored on the networks or on equipment and usage of the Internet, NHS.net and computer systems, irrespective of whether these relate to trust or personal use. Access and usage of The Organisation's computers must be in accordance with The Organisation's policy.

Person Specification

• NMC Registered
• Worked in Primary Care Setting
• Use of EMIS and Docman Clinical systems would be advantageous
• 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.