Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN

Contract Type:Permanent

Hours:15-37.5 Hours per week, days to include Mondays and Tuesdays

Location:The Enhanced Care Team office based out of Southbourne Surgery.

Bournemouth East Collaborative Primary Care Network (PCN), situated on the stunning Dorset South Coast, comprises four like-minded practices working together in East Bournemouth, with a strong reputation on quality improvement and investing in its employees. The PCN serves a population of approximately 55,000 patients with a diverse demographic.

Practices part of the PCN are:

• Littledown Surgery
• Shelley Manor and Holdenhurst Road Medical Centre

Bournemouth East Collaborative Primary Care Network (BEC PCN) has a new and exciting opportunity for an
ANP
to join the BEC Enhanced Care Team to work between 15-37.5 hours per week providing acute visits as part of our multi-disciplinary visiting team.

This role will require an
Enhanced DBS Clearance
. Should you have this certificate as part of the DBS subscription service, we would be happy to accept this providing the original is shown. Otherwise, you will be expected to complete a new application.

Job summary

Our Enhanced Care Team is a multi-disciplinary team based at Southbourne Surgery that provides support to our aligned Care Homes, our proactive frailty support and acute visiting service to housebound patients.

We would ideally like an ANP to work alongside the Lead GP and Lead ANP for the Enhanced Care Team, deputising for the Lead ANP when required. The role will predominantly involve delivering acute visits to our housebound patients but will also involve offering training and support to our aligned Care Home staff, as well as a broader education and development for the communities served by the PCN.

Advanced Practice is a level of practice rather than a type of practice and the ANP within Bournemouth East Collaborative PCN will have the freedom and authority to act, making autonomous decisions in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients.

ANP’s working at this level of education and training have significant roles within each of the following four pillars, and will be expected to help develop the role within the organisation:

• Advanced clinical practice
• Facilitation of education and learning
• Evidence research and development

• Able to use an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgement for seeing, treating and assessing patients who present with a broad range of situations and conditions.
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  * You will have an advanced practice qualification and be a non-medical prescriber.*
• Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary PCN team, delegating and referring as appropriate, to optimise health outcomes for patients.
• Work autonomously, clinically examining and assessing patients and initiating any appropriate action whilst taking responsibility for managing practice.
• Using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgment for highly complex decision making across a broad range of situations.
• Have a level of understanding of PCN and NHS values, policies and procedures.
• Provide support to Care Home staff which may include delivering training where required, or supporting Care Home pilots, and support the other members of the Enhanced Care Team.
• Takes responsibility for providing care and treatment in line with current evidence base practice at an advanced clinical practice level.
• Demonstrates the ability to make critical judgements and utilise problem-solving skills, regarding patient care, on a daily basis.
• Initiates and carries out highly complex patient assessment, analyses and interprets results, using highly developed advanced knowledge and skills that includes Comprehensive patient history taking, physical examination and understanding self-competences when interpreting range of tests and or investigations.
• Independently prescribes a range of medications, as agreed at PCN level, based on self-competencies, efficacy, safety and cost.
• Discusses and agrees assessment outcomes with patients, carers and other health professionals, to enable them to make informed decisions regarding treatment and care, and initiates appropriate, timely consultation and/or referral, when more expert input is required.
• To comply fully with Infection Prevention and Control Policies.

• Professional registration with relevant professional body.
• Recognised Advanced Clinical Practice course (or working towards) – MSc or Evidenced capabilities through portfolio route.
• Advanced Practice Digital badge. Digital badge is for those who have an MSC have evidenced their capabilities through portfolio route
• Non-medical prescriber.
• Ability to see and treat a wide range of minor injury and illness presentations.
• To take a full comprehensive history, clinically physically examine and treat within level of own competence.
• Willing to learn clinical new…