Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Woodhill

Job Overview

• 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

Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs

Working for our organisation

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.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We’re always looking to recruit 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.

Detailed Job Description And Main 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 criteria

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

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register
• Minor illness qualification
• Master’s degree required for qualification post December 2020 OR Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
• Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Qualified triage nurse
• Teaching qualification
• ALS