Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Moseley Avenue Surgery are seeking an experienced advanced nurse practitioner, who acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.

They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice. They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership as required. In order to work at this level, NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver a high standard of patient care as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in general practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base
• To manage a clinical caseload, dealing with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting
• To lead the nursing team (where applicable) and ensure the highest standards of care are provided for the patients

About us

Moseley Avenue Surgery is based in Coundon, Coventry with a patient population of circa 12,000. Our current team is made up of GPs, nursing, administration, reception and wide ranging ARRS roles.

Job responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

The post-holder will:

Provide direct access to an ANP, both face to face and over the telephone

Make professionally autonomous decisions for which he/she is accountable

Provide a first point of contact within the Practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan

Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports

As an independent prescriber: to prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care

Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care

Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills

Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate

Take the Practice lead in developing and delivering specialist primary care services, such as long term disease management (diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease and hypertension)

Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure that National Service Frameworks (e.g. Coronary Heart Disease/Older People/Diabetes /Mental Health) are being delivered

Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Centre, and across the wider Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and GP Federation (SWGP) to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care

Contribute to the practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery

Participate in identification of community health needs and develop patient/family-centred strategies to address them

Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services

Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of practice-based commissioning

Person Specification Qualifications

• Please see person specification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.