Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner for Care Homes and Frailty
"Care that counts join our Frailty Team and help patients live well, every day."
We are seeking an enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated ANPto join our friendly Frailty Team, supporting frail, housebound, and care home patients.
You'll work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team(ACPs, RGN, admin support, and 4 GPs) to deliver high-quality patient care through telephone triage, face-to-face consultations, care home visits, and home visits.
The post holders main responsibility will be to work within the clinical team to provide high quality patient care to our Frail housebound and Care Home patients.
The ANP will use specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare independently to patients.
To apply for this role, you must be a qualified clinical nurse with at least two years of experience as a prescriber and advanced health assessor, and possess excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
If you are passionate about improving care for frail patients and want to work in a supportive, forward thinking team, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Whilst working within the Frailty Team, the ANP will also be required to work autonomously in delivering independent assessment, clinical examination, diagnosis, clinical decision making, planning of care and treatment/prescribing and collaborating with the wider team to ensure excellent patient care.
About us
Sutton Coldfield Group Practice consists of 6sites which form a single Primary Care Network. The practice sites are: LeyHill Surgery, Tudor Practice, Four Oaks Medical Practice, Sutton Park Surgery,Falcon Medical Centre and Vesey Practice.
Job responsibilities
To deliver a high standard of patient care as anANP/ACP) in any care facility Nursing/Residential homes, their own homes andfor patients within SCGP with Frailty.
To manage a clinical caseload, dealing withpatients needs in a Nursing/Residential homes and frail/vulnerable patientswithin SCGP.
To deliver a high standard of care usingautonomous clinical skills and a broad in-depth knowledge base and experience.
To work efficiently, pro-actively andautonomously to provide consistent and appropriate care to Frail patients oftenwith complex needs. This could be looking after their long term care needs orwhere they have an acute concern.
Instigate and be involved in pro-active andappropriate advanced care planning discussions with all patients and theirfamilies and develop personalised care plans according to the patients needs.
Prescribing for end-of-life care, completing/amending Respect forms, Respect discussions with patients, families and carehome staff and providing excellent end of life care to patients as appropriate.
To have an awareness of all services and supportavailable for frail and vulnerable patient and knowing when to refer on toother services as appropriate.
The development and use of referral pathways forANPs to the local acute NHS Trust services and to Diagnostic and TreatmentCentres (where appropriate).
To support the SCGP leadership team to developour services for Frail patients (planned and unplanned care) as a key member ofour Frailty and Care homes MDT.
To mentor and support other Health CareProfessionals within the Practice and members of the Care Homes MDT indeveloping and maintaining clinical skills and knowledge.
To build strong connections with the UrgentCommunity Response (UCR) team, Care home staff, Palliative care nursing staffand Community nursing and therapies
To actively contribute to achieving ourcontractual requirements
Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluatetreatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with anundifferentiated diagnosis
Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluateinterventions/treatments for patients with complex needs. Proactively identify,diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing along-term condition (as appropriate)
Assess, treat and educate patients as required,making use of prescribing experience to prescribe safe, effective andappropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework.
Prioritise health problems and interveneappropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations,including initiation of effective emergency care.
Support patients to adopt health promotionstrategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care
Make professionally autonomous decisions forwhich you are accountable Bookdiagnostic investigations as indicated.
Refer patients directly to otherservices/agencies as appropriate
Follow up patients as required by clinical needand guidelines within scope of practice
Undertake the assessment of pathology reportsand direct for further action as warranted.
Complete medical reports for various agencies,including DWP and insurance companies (where it does not specifically requirecompletion by a GP).
ProvideHolistic Care as part of an MDT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified Clinical Nurse
* Accredited training in frailty or chronic disease management
Experience
* Has worked autonomously in an advanced nursing role.
* Has experience of working with patients with Frailty and/or in a Care
* Home.
* Has worked within or closely with primary care or general practice.
* Experience of case management.
* Experience of advanced care planning discussions with patients and their families.
* Experience in working with frail housebound /care home patients is desirable.
* Ability to travel to all SCGP sites, care homes and home visits during working hours with access to a car with full drivers license.
* Demonstrable experience of triaging patients needs.
* Experience of conducting audits.
* Experience in handling and updating QOF data.
* Experience in working with frail housebound /care home patients.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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