Job Introduction
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner covering the Swale locality, you'll work closely with a multidisciplinary team and will use your experience to practice autonomously and flexibly.
You will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients and will have significant experience in Community, Intermediate Care or Rapid Response. The work will be varied and interesting.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) and the service operates 8am - 8pm across 7 days a week, including bank holidays.
Main Responsibility
- Using evidence based research undertake accurate assessment and management of patients with undifferentiated needs in accordance with evidence based clinical guidelines, including patients presenting with minor illness and minor injury in both adult and paediatric patients.
- Undertake assessment and management of patients in a timely manner, actively contributing to effective delivery of the service based on demand.
- Undertake diagnosis and when applicable subsequently provide clinical treatment according to extended nurse prescribing formulary.
- To perform a variety of screening procedures and diagnostic tests as requested or deemed necessary during assessment and offer opportunistic screening when appropriate. This includes the interpretation of radiographs.
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be / have:
- Professional NMC Registration
- Extended/independent prescribing qualification
- Accredited A&E or minor illness qualification
- Evidence of continuous personal development
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Practitioner qualification/ first contact practitioner (or willing to work towards)
- Experience working in community or Urgent Response Services.
- Experience in working as an autonomous practitioner.
Package Description
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Sheppey Community Hospital covering the Swale locality.
You will feel valued as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
