Advanced Nurse Practitioners - KEN Primary Care Network

Our Health Partnership are seeking Advanced Nurse Practitioners to join our growing team at Our Health Partnership, working within Kingstanding, Erdington & Nechells Primary Care Network (KEN PCN).

We have 2 vacancies, one to cover practices in the areas of Small Heath (B10) and Nechells (B7), and one to cover the areas of Kingstanding (B44) and Erdington (B23)

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking PCN led Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT).

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and caring Advanced Nurse Practitioner, with excellent clinical skills and warmth, with a commitment to positively contributing to our provision of high quality patient centred care. An interest in frailty and/or care homes would be ideal as we would like our successful candidates to take a lead in these areas.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for further information about this post. If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please contact Clair Huckerby Chief (Consultant) Pharmacist Our Health Partnership: Clair.Huckerby@ OurHealthPartnership.com

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a healthcare professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness; seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. There is a requirement to see extra or emergency patients.

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. Where appropriate, patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the registered GP before making such a referral.

To lead in the area of frailty and/or care homes to deliver a holistic and patient centered approach to care which will include home visits and/or care home ward rounds.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 34 practices with 43 surgeries. 176 GP partners and circa 80 salaried GPs in Our Health Partnership serving around 300,000 patients in Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Wolverhampton, Solihull and Shropshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key roles and functions:

• To work autonomously, providing a high quality, safe and supportive environment for patients, meeting their identified physical and psycho-social needs within the scope of individual accountable practice.
• Work within Practice guidelines, policies, protocols and procedures reporting outcomes to appropriate clinical staff so standards of care can be monitored and improved where necessary. This includes adhering to the following agendas: infection control, equality and diversity, health and safety.
• Maintain effective communication with patients, carers, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team ensuring information is shared appropriately and confidentially so patient needs are met in accordance with NHS directives and safeguarding policies (DH 2003; DH 2010).
• Protect and maintain patient records to the agreed Practice standard and in accordance with professional record keeping standards (NMC 2009).
• Administer medicines in accordance with a non-medical prescribing framework, patient specific direction or patient group direction in accordance with the standards for medicine management (NMC 2007).
• Organise, manage and prioritise own workload ensuring care of patients is paramount.
• Develop the role by using evidence-based practice and continuously improving own knowledge as defined in the PREP handbook (NMC 2011) and revalidation guidelines.

Job responsibilities:

Diagnosing and Treating Patients Presenting with Minor Illness

• Triage and treat patients presenting with minor illness and wishing to see a healthcare professional; either in surgery in in their own home; making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary healthcare team.
• Advise patients on general healthcare and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primary or secondary healthcare team, as necessary.
• Prescribe medicines in accordance with NMC Standards for Medicines Management (2007), NMC Code of Professional Standards (2015) and the Nurse Prescribing Implementation Plan (1998).
• Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within the boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.

Providing Assessment, Screening and Health Education:

• Minor Illness / Minor Injury Clinics
• Chronic disease and admissions avoidance reviews and care planning
• Lead in the area of Frailty and Care Homes and perform ward round visits Primary Care Network practices
• Palliative and End of Life Care and completion of DNACPR/Respect forms as required
• Structured Medication Reviews
• Falls, Mental Health/Capacity, Social Needs Assessments
• Health screening, contraception, dietary advice, blood pressure checks
• Perform or request blood tests, urinalysis, ECGs (if required)
• Cytology, Injections, Dressings, Removal of sutures/clips (if required)
• Provide general and specific health screening to the practice population, within agreed protocols, with referral to other members of the primary and secondary healthcare team as necessary

The following are implicit expectations of the post holder:

• A willingness to undertake additional courses, training and education to meet the needs of the position; this includes attendance at on and off-site meetings and some study during non-working hours.
• To undertake regular clinical supervision with a GP.
• A willingness to adapt working practice to meet changing practice and service development.
• Flexibility of working across sites if required.
• Performance is monitored on an ongoing basis and formally appraised annually.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situation
• Sound clinical reasoning & decision making
• Flexible
• Ability to inspire and lead a team

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse with evidence of current NMC registration
• Post Graduate Qualification in specific specialty or equivalent experience
• Masters modules in Advanced Practice including Non-medical Prescribing (V300)

Desirable

• Teaching & Mentoring qualification
• Advanced Life Support qualification (s)

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area
• Evidence of on-going CPD

Desirable

• Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Advanced Clinical Assessment skills
• Evidence of research & audit

Desirable

• Publication in healthcare journals
• Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Our Health Partnership

Address

1st Floor

1856 Pershore Road

Birmingham

B30 3AS

Employer's website

https://ourhealthpartnership.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £51,279.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Sick pay
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Day shift

Application question(s):

• Are you a qualified ANP?

Experience:

• post registration experience at a senior level: 5 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• NMC registration (required)

Work Location: On the road

Application deadline: 05/06/2023
Reference ID: KEN PCN PARA