Advanced Nurse Practitioner

1. ROLE SUMMARY You MUST have a past experience of working in a GP surgery. • Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. • Prioritising and triaging the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. • Work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners. 2. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES • Provides patients with access to a Nurse Practitioner in surgery and over the phone for all presentations in primary care. • Controls admission and discharge to own caseload through: • Appropriate comprehensive assessment to include physical, mental, emotional and social health including the use of invasive and non-invasive investigations to establish a diagnosis. • Prescription of evidence-based care including medication. • Developing with the patient and family when appropriate, an ongoing plan for health with an emphasis on prevention and self-care. • Follow-up and evaluation of care. • Direct referral to and liaison with consultants and other professional agencies. • Making and accepting referrals within the practice team. • If qualified to, prescribes according to formulary and competencies. • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care. • Support and mange health needs of women presenting for family planning, or sexual health consultation. • Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF for Mental Health. • A collaborative, supportive and holistic approach. • To keep accurate patient records on computer system. Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures • Undertakes the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs. • Checks and processes results received via SystmOne as instructed by the GPs. Administrative Responsibilities • Disseminates learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments/courses. • Manages and assess risk within areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. • Participates in the delivery Chronic Disease Management and in achieving QOF Targets. • Ensures good communication between you and the team and other members of staff and communicate any changes of ways of working to those affected as appropriate. • Attends and contributes to Practice Clinical Governance. • Encourages and ensure team working within the practice • To participate in practice clinical audits if required. Acts as a resource to other practice members. • Uses technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information. • Reviews and processes data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. • To participate in developing protocols and clinical guidelines for use in the practice. Job description Job responsibilities 1. ROLE SUMMARY You MUST have a past experience of working in a GP surgery. • Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. • Prioritising and triaging the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. • Work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners. 2. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES • Provides patients with access to a Nurse Practitioner in surgery and over the phone for all presentations in primary care. • Controls admission and discharge to own caseload through: • Appropriate comprehensive assessment to include physical, mental, emotional and social health including the use of invasive and non-invasive investigations to establish a diagnosis. • Prescription of evidence-based care including medication. • Developing with the patient and family when appropriate, an ongoing plan for health with an emphasis on prevention and self-care. • Follow-up and evaluation of care. • Direct referral to and liaison with consultants and other professional agencies. • Making and accepting referrals within the practice team. • If qualified to, prescribes according to formulary and competencies. • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care. • Support and mange health needs of women presenting for family planning, or sexual health consultation. • Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF for Mental Health. • A collaborative, supportive and holistic approach. • To keep accurate patient records on computer system. Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures • Undertakes the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs. • Checks and processes results received via SystmOne as instructed by the GPs. Administrative Responsibilities • Disseminates learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments/courses. • Manages and assess risk within areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients. • Participates in the delivery Chronic Disease Management and in achieving QOF Targets. • Ensures good communication between you and the team and other members of staff and communicate any changes of ways of working to those affected as appropriate. • Attends and contributes to Practice Clinical Governance. • Encourages and ensure team working within the practice • To participate in practice clinical audits if required. Acts as a resource to other practice members. • Uses technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information. • Reviews and processes data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. • To participate in developing protocols and clinical guidelines for use in the practice.