Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Feltham B

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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.

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Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Feltham B NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Health & Justice Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Health & Justice Services work to a 7 day working week)

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Site HMP Feltham B Town Feltham, Middlesex Salary £61,631 - £68,623 per annum inc. HCAS Outer (pro rata if P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 22/12/: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 more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

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 Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Feltham B

By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well being.

Our motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.

We offer a great range of career pathways to support our nurses through their journey, see the list of endless opportunities under the working for your organisation tab.

Main duties of the job

• Use highly specialist knowledge & skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients within their sphere of practice.
• Accountable for independent clinical assessment, diagnosis & treatment of patients with undiagnosed & undifferentiated conditions.
• Refer patients to relevant specialities for any necessary investigations.
• Practice at an advanced level demonstrating in depth knowledge & competence in aspects which may include acute medicine, community services & mental health; encompassing enhanced assessment, critical thinking, intervention planning & delivery & clinical management skills that are evidence based.
• Promote clinical excellence in the care of patients that present within their service & provide clinical advice & support to nursing /AHP staff & other healthcare professionals.
• Provide professional & independent clinical care which enables the coordination of a multi professional seamless service for patients.
• As a senior member of the Multi-disciplinary team, play a pivotal role in the operational development of the service.
• Initiate, manage & drive change, innovating changes in practice for the benefit of patient care in line with current trust & local programmes.
• Undertake the role in accordance with Trust & Service guidelines but have freedom to act within broad policies & protocols, in accordance with professional responsibilities & boundaries.
• Strategic responsibility for ACPs in one of the pillars of practice (Clinical, Education, Leadership or Research).

Working for our organisation Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across our services.

Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.

We have a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within your career within Health & Justice.

We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:

• Career coaching
• Clinical supervision
• Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates
• NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
• Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
• External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical Duties:

• Use specialist clinical knowledge to independently assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatments and interventions for patients with complex undifferentiated or undefined presentations.
• Undertake comprehensive knowledge and skills of systematic history taking and clinical examination of patients who have complex needs, developing a co produced management plan.
• Perform clinical procedures appropriate to the history and clinical examination of the patient, including further invasive testing and treatments requiring highly developed skills and precision, where indicated.
• Request investigations such as blood, urine and other laboratory tests, electrocardiographs (ECGs), ultrasound scans, X Rays and computed tomography (CT) scans in accordance with IR(ME)R regulations as local policy allows.
• Utilise clinical reasoning and decision making skills to make differential diagnosis and provide rationales for patients' management plans continuously reflecting and evaluating practice findings and clinical response to treatment and establishes an appropriate ongoing management plan accordingly.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately in complex, deteriorating, urgent and emergency situations, including initiation and leadership of resuscitation.
• Manage regularly clinical events involving patients often requiring unpredictable and high levels of physical effort according to the patient's dependency and clinical need.
• Work as an autonomous professional, within ethical codes and legal frameworks, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
• Act as specialist and a resource to all staff in the delivery of clinical care to patients.
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