• Act as an audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle and developing the health champion role
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
• Develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead within the practice
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)
• Drive the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising with external agencies and professional organisations as required
• Develop practice administrative and clinical protocols in line with the needs of the patient and current legislation

Main duties of the job

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes
• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients' health
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.)
• Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing etc.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Develop, implement and embed well man clinics
• Develop, implement and embed an effective call/recall system
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs

About us

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking torecruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of the practice of the individual
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of practice within the four pillars
• oJob plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level
• oExperience in prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
• oExperience of working in a primary care environment

Desirable

• oExperience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• oMaster's degree required for qualification post December 2020 OR Post graduate
• oQualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
• oMeets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
• oMeets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
• oMinor illness qualification

Desirable

• oQualified triage nurse
• oTeaching qualification
• oALS

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Woodhill

MILTON KEYNES

LU7 4QD

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