Job Introduction
We are looking for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to work within the inpatient ward in Paulton. This is a great opportunity for established ANPs looking for a change in location or aspiring ANPs with core advanced practice skills looking to take the next step in their career.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will be part of the Clinical Team, working alongside medical colleagues and reporting to the lead Doctor for Community Hospitals. You’ll be joining innovative and forward-thinking colleagues who are compassionate and committed to the people in the local community who use our services and go above and beyond to ensure they receive the best quality care.
You will be based at John Stacey Ward at Paulton Hospital. You will provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment ensuring excellence in both safety & experience for patients.
John Stacey Ward, Paulton Hospital: part time post (22.5 hours) Working hours between 8am-8pm Monday, Wednesday & Friday initially
Time for Continuous Professional Development & training will also be allocated.
Main Responsibility
As an ANP you will be working in collaboration with medical colleagues, other nursing leads & inpatient colleagues across a range of disciplines. You will also have a close working relationship with senior nursing colleagues for professional leadership & support.
As part of this role, you will be responsible for the following:
- Clinical practice- Delivering evidence-based clinical practice skills to ensure the appropriate management of patients’ individual needs. Using skills of assessment, diagnosis, interpretation of tests, forward planning of care & treatment. Timely recognition of deteriorating patients, appropriate response, and escalation with necessary communication & documentation.
- Non-medical prescribing- Current registration with the NMC as an active non-medical prescriber. Comprehensive review of medication on admission, optimising prescribing. Routine writing of drug charts to prescribe medication as an inpatient and for discharge; completing necessary communication, including any changes, to ensure safe continuity of care for patients. Review of medications in response to changing clinical needs.
- Leadership- Act as a professional role model for colleagues. Demonstrate collaborative working partnerships challenging traditional professional boundaries but maintaining excellence, quality, safety & working within the scope of own professional practice.
- Audit & research- Participate in, initiate and deliver audit & research to identify current practice, drive continuous improvement & contribute to the development of new knowledge, theory & practice to benefit patients & colleagues.
- Supporting the learning environment- Commitment to & evidencing of personal professional development. Providing a positive learning environment for students & colleagues. Delivering training & education to support up to date evidence-based practice.
- Continuous improvement- Identifying poor practice & supporting improvement opportunities as part of a Just Culture based on reflection, learning & improvement, including SBAR completion and thematic review.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be an experienced nurse & non-medical prescriber registered with the NMC with evidence of completion of training to support the delivery of advanced practice skills in either an acute trust or in a community setting.
Ideally, you will have had previous experience in an advanced practice role and the core skills of advanced practice.
You will be enthusiastic, clinically credible, hardworking, and ready for an exciting challenge.
Package Description
As an ANP you’ll be part of our valued team at our BaNES community hospitals inpatients wards.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £41,659 - £47,672 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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 we’ll 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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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