ACP Nurse in Burntwood

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits, within the four pillars of practice. The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. The postholder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referrals, admissions and discharging patients as appropriate. The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring, compassionate and committed experienced nurse who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice. The post holder will commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process.

Main duties of the job:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality care.
• Carry out clinical practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.
• Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as appropriate.
• Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
• Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Management of health screening programmes and ensures other team members are aware of health priority.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
• Providing assessment & screening services.

About us:

The Lichfield and Burntwood practice network has come into effect since 2018 and has evolved into two distinct but closely linked Primary Care Networks. The practices work closely together enabling greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for our communities. They are meeting the ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan. The network supports both the Lichfield and Burntwood PCNs and the staff employed across both PCNs.

Qualifications:

• Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Qualification.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Experience:

• Working knowledge of GP IT systems including EMIS, Docman.
• Recent primary and community nursing experience.
• Nurse-led management of triage, minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
• Experience of clinical audit, evaluation research and implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Experience of working with operational teams, cross organisations and a range of professionals.

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.