Blackwater Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for a nurse prescriber/advanced nurse practitioner to join our team on a full-time basis, but we will consider part-time hours for the right candidate.
You will be managing clinical cases and dealing with presenting patient needs within a primary care setting, while participating in nurse-led minor illness clinics.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Providing the choice of direct access to an NP, in the practice, to the community team, and over the telephone, for the general practice population.
- Making professionally autonomous decisions for which you are accountable.
- Providing a first point of contact within the practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving, and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan.
- Instigating necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports.
- Prescribing safe, effective, and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework.
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
- Offering a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an ongoing plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.
- Promoting health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education,
screening and therapeutic communication skills.
- Referring patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate.
- Working as part of the practice team in developing and delivering specialist primary care services, such as long-term disease management (diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, and hypertension).
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
- Working with nursing, medical, and health care assistant colleagues to ensure that National Service Frameworks (e.g. coronary heart disease/older People/ diabetes /mental health) are being delivered.
- Working with multi-disciplinary team within the practice, and across the wider Operational Unit (SMOU), to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
- Contributing to the practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery.
- Participating in the identification of community health needs and develop patient/family-centred strategies to address them.
- Helping develop and setting up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services.
- Being aware of and contributing to the planning and delivery of practice-based commissioning.