Advanced Nurse Practitioner Durham in North East

If you're ready for a new challenge, come and join our Health and Justice team! Spectrum is seeking a skilled, experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to provide essential clinical support to our Health and Justice services. We're looking for a confident ANP with experience of managing complex care and making decisions autonomously, based on sound evidence-based principles. The ideal candidate will have experience in supporting vulnerable people and working collaboratively with GPs, pharmacists and Registered Nurses to provide the best outcomes for patients.

As an ANP, you'll be a role model and ambassador to our nursing teams and will support them as a senior clinical leader, facilitating safe and effective prescribing, care planning and clinical decision-making. You will also advise and mentor developing ANPs (where appropriate) and provide a high standard of leadership to colleagues. We're looking for someone with expert clinical assessment skills and a real desire to make a difference.

Main Duties of the Job:

• Autonomously making decisions in the clinical assessment and delivery of evidence-based treatment for patients.
• Using clinical information to adjust care and treatment including medications or provide onward referral to appropriate health professionals.
• Effective delivery of primary care services including initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, safe and effective prescribing, care planning and evaluation of care.
• Prescribing acutely for clinical conditions appropriately and where relevant in accordance with NICE guidelines and local pathways and protocols.
• Undertaking medication reviews from SystmOne repeat templates including read coding entries and identifying individuals warranting MDTs or GP review.
• Providing mentoring and supervision to developing ANPs where appropriate.

About Us:

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.

We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and wellbeing on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service. We are an expanding organisation, but we aim to grow without compromising on quality and social value.

Person Specification:

• First level registered nurse.
• Post registration training and development.
• Accredited advanced nurse practice programme OR substantial autonomous practice experience supported by the appropriate post registration qualification at degree or MSc level.
• Evidence of substantial experience using advanced clinical examination & assessment skills within practice supported by the appropriate post registration qualification.
• Independent prescriber.
• Evidence of extended practice - special skills in Clinical Examination and Diagnosis.
• Evidence of continued professional development at masters level, including delivery of evidence-based care.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.