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    Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Workington, United Kingdom - James Street Group Practice

    James Street Group Practice
    James Street Group Practice Workington, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Description

    Job summary

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    An exciting opportunity has arisen for ahighly motivated Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner to join North Cumbria PrimaryCare Limited.

    Based at the Workington GP Practice you will workindependently and will be expected to work as part of our new total triage team,see patients in their own homes or in one of our primary care settings, working on a rotation basis with otherAdvanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioners.

    You will implement a range of care interventions including prescribingfor patients presenting with un-differential and undiagnosed problems.

    An MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and independent prescribingqualification is essential for this role.

    The Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner will be fully supported by ourGP team but will always aim to work independently and where appropriate, incollaboration with other health professionals.

    Main duties of the job

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  • Work as an autonomous practitioner, working independently within their professional boundaries to assess patients with un-differential and undiagnosed problems, initiate treatment, investigations, advice and management of problems using professional autonomous decision making processes
  • Be able to demonstrate safe and competent clinical decision making, critical thinking and expert care
  • Provide advanced levels of clinical practice, knowledge and skills
  • Actively engage patients and carers in the management of their health, promoting health and well being
  • Undertake history and physical examination to accurately assess the patients condition
  • Request, interpret and act upon relevant diagnostic test and procedures
  • Request, process and interpret pathology and other tests results as required.
  • Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
  • Prescribe medication in accordance with current legislation
  • Manage wide-ranging and sometimes complex presentations
  • Functions at a high level in relation to communication skills through patient consultation and nursing assessment of physical, psychological and social needs
  • Ensure that evidenced based, high quality, safe, appropriate and effective clinical care is provided to service users.
  • About us

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    Workington Health Limited is an organisation who work alongside the Workington GP Practice and have adopted an innovative approach to the delivery of urgent care in Workington.

    We are based in the Workington Primary Care Centre located in Workington Community Hospital. The centre is open 7 days a week, Monday Friday from 8am 8pm and Saturday & Sunday 10am 4pm.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Support with the management of minor injuries
  • Determine a treatment plan for a patient and manage an individuals medication to achieve optimum outcomes.
  • Provide advanced, skilled, effective and evidenced based healthcare.
  • Take the opportunity with every patient encounter to offer advice on health promotion and disease prevention and to advise and empower patients to self-care where possible.
  • Undertake best care and attend to the needs of vulnerable adults and children using up to date safeguarding knowledge.
  • Have a flexible approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities.
  • Have knowledge of and be able to effectively refer to local services and all other available resources to promote care.
  • Work autonomously and as part of a team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care.
  • Confidentiality

    In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

    In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

  • Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data Provide support for Service Delivery Leads where required.
  • Health and safety

    The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy and the practice Infection Control Policy. This will include:

    Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.

    Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

    Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

    Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

    Actively reporting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

    Keeping own work areas and general patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role

    Equality and diversity

    The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
  • Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
  • Person Specification

    Qualifications and Training

    Essential

  • Registered professional with the NMC or qualified paramedic registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council
  • Advanced clinical practice
  • Safeguarding adults and children course at appropriate level
  • Basic Life Support
  • Independent prescribing qualification
  • BSc Hons Nurse Practitioner Qualification/Relevant post registration advanced clinical qualifications
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Desirable

  • Non-medical X ray referrer and up to date IRMER
  • Masters ANP Qualification
  • Mentoring/teaching qualification
  • Minor injuries experience
  • Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner credentialing
  • Skills and Experience

    Essential

  • Ability to work as an autonomous Practitioner
  • Required to deal with undifferentiated and undiagnosed patients.
  • Safeguarding vulnerable people
  • Ability to empower patients by appropriate health teaching and advice
  • Knowledge of Health and Safety within clinical practice and associated areas
  • Knowledge of local and national policies relevant to clinical area.
  • Knowledge of clinical quality standards, CQC and evidence of implementing and monitoring these in practice
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Extended clinical skills relevant to level of practice and recent clinical processes
  • Post registration experience
  • Desirable

  • Experience of primary care
  • Working in an urgent care setting (primary care, minor injuries, accident and emergency or walk in centre)
  • Other requirements

    Essential

  • Able to work across 7 day week.
  • Background of working in a fast paced Primary Health Care or acute environment
  • Flexibility to meet the demand of ad hoc late finishes if patients remain in the unit after the service closes
  • Be adaptable to changing needs of the service
  • Desirable

  • Full clean driving licence
  • Personal attributes

    Essential

  • Evidence to demonstrate:-
  • Excellent clinical skills
  • Good communication skills
  • Commitment to ongoing training and education to develop clinical skills
  • Demonstrate clinical competence in minor illness and injury management
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Desirable

  • Ability to adapt to change within working situation


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