Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job Description 1. JOB DETAILS Job Title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Band: 7 Location: Community Hours: As on contract, to include on-call Team/Directorate: Community Cluster Responsible To: Community Cluster Team Leader (CCTL) Responsible For: N/A Accountable to: Chief Nurse 2. JOB PURPOSE To deliver, manage and promote an excellent standard of evidenced-based specialist palliative care, utilising advanced clinical skills to identify, assess, diagnose and treat patients with specialist palliative care needs. To promote dignity, encompassing a person-centred approach to positively enhance the lives of patients with complex life limiting illnesses within the community. 3 KEY RESULT AREAS/PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 3.1 Main Responsibilities Provide expert specialist palliative care, contributing highly experienced clinical judgement and knowledge to develop strategies for the delivery of complex palliative and end of life care, in order to promote best practice for patients with life limiting illnesses. Assess, diagnose, plan and implement evidence based care at the level expected of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to ensure optimum patient outcomes. Act as an independent and supplementary prescriber, participating in Non Medical Prescribing supervision to provide an enhanced delivery of care. Demonstrate, teach and role model Advanced Communication Skills and professionalism in your interactions with patients, families, carers and all other professionals in order to promote and maintain Hospiscare values. Manage, assess and review, in conjunction with the team leader, daily clinical leadership of junior staff within the community team, deputising for the team leader in their absence, to ensure seamless delivery of clinical care. Design and deliver education and learning for all those involved in palliative/ end of life care, in order to act as a resource to wider professional and care teams both internally and externally. Suggest innovative ideas to improve the service provision and take the service forward in line with Hospiscare, Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and other Government initiatives to formulate strategies for positive change. Assist the Team Leader with line management responsibilities to promote good working relationships within the team. Attend, guide and contribute regularly to Gold Standards Framework (GSF)/Palliative Care and other multi disciplinary team meetings, in order to provide specialist palliative care knowledge and advice to healthcare professionals and relevant others. Assist and contribute to Hospiscares clinical governance and audit process in order to support continuing quality improvement and learning. Assess and identify complex bereavement and communicate effectively with the Supportive Care team to enable a seamless handover into Hospiscares Bereavement Care Services. Infection Prevention and Control Maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and employees is everyones responsibility. All staff are required to adhere to Hospiscares Infection Prevention and Control Policy and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection prevention and control at all times. This includes ensuring personal and team compliance with all relevant policies and procedures, and acting upon or reporting any identified risks. Disclosure and Barring Service This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced level check with Adults and Children Barred Lists. 3.2 Key Contacts Internal: Community Cluster Team Leader Community Teams Chief Nurse Medical team IPU team Clinical Governance Clinical Administration Supportive Care Services Learning and Development team People team External: Patients and those close to them Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital NHS Community Services General Practitioners Residential and Nursing Homes Social and Domiciliary Care Workers Providers of out-of-hours services Devon Integrated Care Board (ICB) 3.3 Health & Safety Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines and fire regulations are strictly adhered to Comply with safe working practices as defined by Hospiscare Complete online training as and when required Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by acts or omissions at work Report any accidents, incidents or near misses as soon as reasonably practicable Manage own work life balance and general wellbeing, including any relevant pressures in respect of lone working, travel, difficult environments and challenging situations 3.4 General Be aware of and adhere to Hospiscare policies and procedures at all times Take part in progress/performance reviews throughout the year Cooperate with other Hospiscare departments Attend training courses and complete online training modules as required to meet the requirements of the post Take responsibility for own personal development, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills Undertake any other duties as requested by management which are reasonably deemed to be within the scope of the role 3.5 Other Apply the Hospiscare values and behaviours to every aspect of the role at all times Promote and maintain the brand standards of Hospiscare Job description Job responsibilities Job Description 1. JOB DETAILS Job Title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Band: 7 Location: Community Hours: As on contract, to include on-call Team/Directorate: Community Cluster Responsible To: Community Cluster Team Leader (CCTL) Responsible For: N/A Accountable to: Chief Nurse 2. JOB PURPOSE To deliver, manage and promote an excellent standard of evidenced-based specialist palliative care, utilising advanced clinical skills to identify, assess, diagnose and treat patients with specialist palliative care needs. To promote dignity, encompassing a person-centred approach to positively enhance the lives of patients with complex life limiting illnesses within the community. 3 KEY RESULT AREAS/PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 3.1 Main Responsibilities Provide expert specialist palliative care, contributing highly experienced clinical judgement and knowledge to develop strategies for the delivery of complex palliative and end of life care, in order to promote best practice for patients with life limiting illnesses. Assess, diagnose, plan and implement evidence based care at the level expected of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to ensure optimum patient outcomes. Act as an independent and supplementary prescriber, participating in Non Medical Prescribing supervision to provide an enhanced delivery of care. Demonstrate, teach and role model Advanced Communication Skills and professionalism in your interactions with patients, families, carers and all other professionals in order to promote and maintain Hospiscare values. Manage, assess and review, in conjunction with the team leader, daily clinical leadership of junior staff within the community team, deputising for the team leader in their absence, to ensure seamless delivery of clinical care. Design and deliver education and learning for all those involved in palliative/ end of life care, in order to act as a resource to wider professional and care teams both internally and externally. Suggest innovative ideas to improve the service provision and take the service forward in line with Hospiscare, Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and other Government initiatives to formulate strategies for positive change. Assist the Team Leader with line management responsibilities to promote good working relationships within the team. Attend, guide and contribute regularly to Gold Standards Framework (GSF)/Palliative Care and other multi disciplinary team meetings, in order to provide specialist palliative care knowledge and advice to healthcare professionals and relevant others. Assist and contribute to Hospiscares clinical governance and audit process in order to support continuing quality improvement and learning. Assess and identify complex bereavement and communicate effectively with the Supportive Care team to enable a seamless handover into Hospiscares Bereavement Care Services. Infection Prevention and Control Maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and employees is everyones responsibility. All staff are required to adhere to Hospiscares Infection Prevention and Control Policy and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection prevention and control at all times. This includes ensuring personal and team compliance with all relevant policies and procedures, and acting upon or reporting any identified risks. Disclosure and Barring Service This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced level check with Adults and Children Barred Lists. 3.2 Key Contacts Internal: Community Cluster Team Leader Community Teams Chief Nurse Medical team IPU team Clinical Governance Clinical Administration Supportive Care Services Learning and Development team People team External: Patients and those close to them Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital NHS Community Services General Practitioners Residential and Nursing Homes Social and Domiciliary Care Workers Providers of out-of-hours services Devon Integrated Care Board (ICB) 3.3 Health & Safety Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines and fire regulations are strictly adhered to Comply with safe working practices as defined by Hospiscare Complete online training as and when required Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by acts or omissions at work Report any accidents, incidents or near misses as soon as reasonably practicable Manage own work life balance and general wellbeing, including any relevant pressures in respect of lone working, travel, difficult environments and challenging situations 3.4 General Be aware of and adhere to Hospiscare policies and procedures at all times Take part in progress/performance reviews throughout the year Cooperate with other Hospiscare departments Attend training courses and complete online training modules as required to meet the requirements of the post Take responsibility for own personal development, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills Undertake any other duties as requested by management which are reasonably deemed to be within the scope of the role 3.5 Other Apply the Hospiscare values and behaviours to every aspect of the role at all times Promote and maintain the brand standards of Hospiscare