Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Are you Advanced Nurse Practitioner looking for a new opportunity?

Do you have experience of working in a fast-paced environment within a large organisation?

Are you passionate about engaging with others and working as part of a team to achieve shared goals?

As NHS Scotland's unique provider of a national tele-health and tele-care service, we are responsible for the delivery of health advice and information by telephone and online services to the population of Scotland 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NHS 24 is a patient-focused service providing the people of Scotland with triage, advice, guidance, referral and information on health and healthcare services.

We have five regional centres – Aberdeen, Dundee, South Queensferry, Cardonald and Clydebank.
This post is for the Aberdeen, Dundee or South Queensferry Regional Centres. The successful candidate must be within commuting distance to a regional centre to attend if required and must also be able to travel to other regional centres when requested to attend meetings, undertake training and any other activities.

The role of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is to provide a high quality, safe and supportive environment to care for patients identified with physical and psycho-social needs. ANPs must be educated at master’s level in advanced practice and are assessed as competent in this level of practice.

Key Responsibilities

• The ANP can lead the development of colleagues through the identification and facilitation of specialist learning resources in line with the current advancement in advanced practice from a strategic and professional agenda. The post holder will lead the development and implementation of Advanced Practice across all services in NHS 24.
• As an NHS 24 Nurse Practitioner, working autonomously, you will use your clinical knowledge and expertise in conjunction with listening, questioning and probing skills to triage patients in your care to ensure safe clinically appropriate outcomes.
• The post holder will work closely with various health board partners to utilise advanced assessment skills to assess, identify the appropriate clinical care and management for all patients including the acutely unwell, their family or carer.
• The post holder will make complex, autonomous decisions using advanced skills and knowledge, has overall responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the delivery of advanced nursing care in the telehealth, primary, community or acute care areas.
• As a clinical leader, the ANP has the freedom and authority to act autonomously in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, including prescribing, of patients with multi-dimensional problems.
• The ANP will develop, lead, and support education and training to nurses and other clinicians within NHS 24 and partner boards, act as a role model and encourage high standards of patient care on a day-to-day basis.

• Be registered as an adult nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register.
• Possess excellent clinical decision-making skills, with the ability to provide clinical supervision and leadership.
• Be an expert communicator who can manage difficult conversations and skilfully negotiate barriers to support the delivery and advancement of progressing the Advanced Practice agenda
• Have a proven record in leading and managing teams and working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Have a strategic and organisational perspective on the patient safety agenda and be able to successfully work across multiple settings and levels
• Be aligned to and live the core NHS Scotland values underpinned by a passion for supporting safe, effective, and person-centred care

NHS 24 offers a complete benefits package, with a permanent contract on Band
7. Placement on salary scale is dependent on confirmation of previous relevant NHS service. We also offer you many supportive policies to enhance your employee journey and have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme Provider, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and a range of learning and development. As an NHS Scotland employee you will be entitled to:

• 35 days annual leave (rising to 41) pro-rata
• Development…