Nurse Practitioner
Principal Duties and responsibilities:
- Based on an individual approach, assess any patient with undifferentiated diagnoses.
- Make a diagnosis using a range of validated clinical guidelines and act to provide the best health intervention for the patient:
- Health advice
- Nursing treatment or care.
- Suture and plaster, or prepared for training.
- Minor illness/injury care
- Medicines management/advice/prescribing
- Referral to another health professional or service as required.
- Set standards for care by implementing protocols and establishing health education activities.
- Develop new and innovative tools to assist patients and those supporting their care to do so to their best effect.
- Maintain accurate documentation of assessment, planning and treatment of patients.
Research, audit and development:
- Ensure that clinical nursing activities are evidence based.
- Participate in, coordinate and implement research, audit and development related to the development of unscheduled care.
- Participate in the dissemination of best practice within the walk in centre.
Clinical guidelines and service development:
- Work with colleagues and patients to produce clinical guidelines and implement changes to practice that improve patient care and patient outcomes.
- Create and seek opportunities to disseminate and develop practice.
Clinical leadership:
- Establish effective communications and networks to develop practice/unscheduled care within the Medical Centre.
- Contribute to the development of formal education, training and development programmes.
- Participate fully in clinical supervision.
- Develop ways in which to improve learning, clinical practice and the patient experience.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Registered General Nurse
- Current NMC Registration
- Recognised NP qualification at minimum of degree level or equivalent
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years post-registration experience
- Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up-to-date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of the NP role
- Experience in management of long term conditions e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, CHD.
- Previous experience of managing and developing a nursing team
Knowledge:
- Understanding and knowledge of policy developments related to the delivery of primary care services including General Practice, the GMS/PMS contract, Clinical Governance, Quality & Outcomes Framework
- Understanding of evidence based practice
Skills:
- Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
- Well developed word processing / data collection / IT skills
- Able to establish and maintain effective communication pathways within the organisation, the local PCT and with key external stakeholders
Interested? Please contact Aga Gozlinska on 0044 207 611 1660 or drop her an email: aga.gozlinska@medacs.com