Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Police Custody Healthcare; PCHC) B7 Job Glasgow area,Scotland UK,Nursing

The role:

We have an exciting opportunity to apply for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner role in Police Custody Health Care (PCHC). This is a new development and service model within PCHC which will be integral in supporting the development and direction of the service, delivering the clinical case management of a unique Police Custody Healthcare and Forensic service.

As an ANP you will provide specialist advice to healthcare professionals, Police Scotland, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), and persons referred and will utilise high levels of decision-making and clinical judgment to triage, examine, treat and close episodes of care for a diverse range of patients referred for forensic medical examination and healthcare in police custody.

As an ANP will ensure that persons referred health needs are met through the provision of the diagnosis and the management of conditions through the assessment, treatment and review planning process in partnership with persons referred, Police Scotland and the COPFS

As an ANP will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary forensic medical and PCHC team to meet the needs of persons referred in police care, supporting the development and delivery of policy and procedures, development and implementation of nursing services and providing nurse and clinical leadership as required

Knowledge and / or experience of delivering services with justice requirements would be advantageous, though not a requirement. Experience of service change, research and audit, quality improvement and development would be desirable.

As the role is covering a peripatetic service a driving licence is required

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) may be able to provide visa sponsorship for certain roles, subject to the post meeting the relevant eligibility criteria. Sponsorship is not guaranteed and will be determined on a case-by-case basis following interview and during the pre-employment verification process. Applicants must state their current right to work in their application.

Please see below for more details:

Skilled Worker visa and Health and Care Worker visa

Duration, Location, and Working Pattern:

Location based in Govan Police Station, 923 Helen St, Glasgow, G52 1EE
Permanent Contract
Full-time (36 hours)

Key responsibilities:

To triage/clinically assess patients, prioritising clinical need, initiating treatment in line with agreed guidelines and referring those patients who require medical intervention to appropriate services
Take a comprehensive systematic history, conduct assessment and clinical examination of patients requiring medical care to ensure that optimum physical and psychological care needs are met
Where appropriate, initiate investigations on patients to improve access to treatment.
Screen patients for disease using clinical assessment and other findings, such as laboratory results, X-rays and electronic clinical records
Initiate drug therapy/medication within parameters of agreed clinical guidelines and in accordance with non-medical prescriber’s legislation
Conduct, where appropriate, invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
Promote, develop and undertake clinical audit programmes, and contribute to research to support own and the teams’ best practice leading to continuous improvement in care using critical appraisal and evaluation skills.
Interpret newly generated research findings supporting implementation using advanced knowledge and skills, disseminating findings internally to influence best practice
Initiates, facilitates or undertakes appropriate research in relation to custody healthcare and forensic medical services for people in police care.
Please refer to the job description for further details.

Knowledge, training, qualifications and/or experience required to do the job:

ANPs are educated at Masters Level in advanced practice and are assessed as competent in this level of practice. As a clinical leader, they have the freedom and authority to act and accept the responsibility and accountability for those actions. This level of practice is characterised by high-level autonomous decision-making, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment including prescribing, of patients with complex multi-dimensional problems

Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
Be recorded as a Nurse Independent/Supplementary
Prescriber (V300) with the NMC
An appropriate Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice which has enabled competence in:

- Clinical assessment

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