Nurse Practitioner in Yaxley

The purpose of the post is to deliver safe, high quality primary care nursing services to the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and utilising primary care skills and experience, the post holder will provide advanced nurse interventions and influence the development of nursing services. Using evidence-based knowledge, the post holder will deliver a high standard of care, making professionally autonomous and accountable decisions. The post holder will work within their professional boundaries to demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and cost-effective, expert care for patients within the practice.

Main duties of the job:

• Responsible for providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.
• Working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team and other healthcare professionals, promote integrated and seamless pathways of care to meet the needs of patients.
• Communicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Implements and works to ensure evidence based care best practice.
• Actively participates and contributes to team meetings.
• Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers.
• Actively involved in the development and implementation of service developments and initiatives.
• Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment.
• Ensure that all complaints, untoward incidents, accidents and areas of clinical risk are identified and reported to the lead GP, Nurse Manager or Practice Manager in accordance with the organisational policy and expected professional practice.

About us:

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team:

Lakeside Healthcare at Yaxley is a well-established surgery with a list size of over 20,000, which is growing. We usually achieve full QOF points and have been awarded the RCGP Quality Practice Award twice. Lead by a GP Partner and Lead AHP, you would be one of an overall Nursing Team of 18, including Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Care Practitioners, Practice Nurses and HCAs, all working together to provide first class primary care.

Job responsibilities:

The purpose of the post is to deliver safe, high quality primary care nursing services to the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and utilising primary care skills and experience, the post holder will provide advanced nurse interventions and influence the development of nursing services. Using evidence based knowledge, the post holder will deliver a high standard of care, making professionally autonomous and accountable decisions. The post holder will support service development, the safe delivery of policy and procedures, and demonstrate effective nurse advocacy and leadership.

Person Specification:

• Current experience of working in an independent and semi-autonomous role, diagnosing and managing patients.
• Experience of managing/dealing with clinical risk.
• Evidence of influencing change and demonstrates a record of achievement in changing and developing practice.
• Proactive in improving and influencing the patient care pathway/journey.
• Demonstrates the ability to manage clinical risk and an understanding of health care governance systems.
• Experience of using clinical systems & Microsoft Office software.
• Experience in Primary Care.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Experience of audit.
• Familiar with SystmOne.

Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse.
• Degree Level qualification in Advanced Nursing Practice, Community Nursing or Specialist Nursing.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Leadership course.
• Accredited disease management course.

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.