Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

The successful post holder will be an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner working autonomously within their professional scope of practice, providing care for patients from initial history taking, clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and follow up of care. They will operate within their own sphere of competence and acceptable limits of practice to 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 provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence and providing leadership as required.

• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
• Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action
• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice
• Actively takes a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person
• Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles

The East Lancashire Alliance is a network of 9 PCNs covering 48 GP practices covering a population of over 390,000 patients across East Lancashire. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. The Alliance are proud to represent our member practices and to champion our Primary Care Partners, by working with local general practice and other system partners in the provision of patient centred, local healthcare services.

Each practice has a close-knit team of staff who collectively seek to improve the health of their patient populations.

East Lancashire is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside, to the heart of the vibrant inner Towns and Villages with great shopping, entertainment and dining options. Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

• Maintain up to date skills and knowledge, maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced level
• Assess effectiveness of own clinical practice and care delivery through self-reflection and peer review, as well as benchmarking and formal evaluation
• Promote evidence-based practice through the use of latest research-based guidelines and the development of practice based research
• Participate in continuing professional development opportunities to ensure up to date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspect of the role is maintained
• Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan
• Maintain their professional registration
• Work within the latest Code of Professional Conduct
• Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with the latest guidance and other pertinent standards
• Keep up to date with the pertinent health-related policy and work with Locality team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
• Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the PCN
• Participate in multi-disciplinary protocol and clinical pathways
• Participate in audits and inspections as appropriate
• Participate in PCN meetings reporting progress as required
• Practice in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
• Act on professional judgement about when to seek help,…