Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Woodhill
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We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Woodhill NHS AfC: Band 7Main area Health and Justice Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-D-HJ-1863-A
Site HMP Woodhill Town MILTON KEYNES Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (pro rata if P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 09/02/:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview- Act as an audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle and developing the health champion role
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near miss events applying a structured approach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)
- Drive the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising with external agencies and professional organisations as required
- Develop practice administrative and clinical protocols in line with the needs of the patient and current legislation
- Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes li>Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice
- Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
- Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients' health
- Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.)
- Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing etc.
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Develop, implement and embed well man clinics
- Develop, implement and embed an effective call/recall system
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
- Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
- Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of the practice of the individual
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
- Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour , referring patients appropriately
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- • Experience of practice within the four pillars
- • Experience in prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- • Experience of working in a primary care environment
- • Job plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level
- • Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- • Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- • Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
- • Master's degree required for qualification post December 2020 OR Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
- • Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- • Qualified triage nurse
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
- Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
- If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.