Job Introduction
Are you an experienced and compassionate Emergency Care Pracitioner/Advanced Nurse Practitioner, seeking an opportunity to make a lasting impact on patient care? Join our dedicated team at HCRG Care Group, based at Livingstone Hospital in Dartford. This is a chance to work in a supportive, forward-thinking environment where your clinical expertise, autonomy, and leadership will be highly valued.
In this role you will play a vital part in delivering high-quality, patient-centered care to our diverse community. Working within a multidisciplinary team your experience in diagnosing, managing, and treating a wide range of acute and chronic conditions will be essential in ensuring positive health outcomes for our patients within the North Kent community. You will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients which will include: life limiting conditions like diabetes, in dwelling long term catheter, urgent wound care etc.
This role covers both Dartford and Gravesend, you may need to work in both Livingstone Community Hospital and Gravesham Community Hospital.
Main Responsibility
Your main responsibilties will include:
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly
- Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long term condition (as appropriate)
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice
- Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions
Please see full list on job description attached
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Recognised Nursing Degree Qualification (or equivalent)
- Registered with the NMC
- Masters in relevant area or working towards
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills
- Experience with Frailty/older persons care
- Evidence of achieving Autonomous Practitioner Competencies in Adult Nursing
- Car driver and holder of clean UK driving Licence
Please see job description attached for full list
Package Description
As an Emergency Care Practitioner/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford, North Kent.
You will feel valued as an Emergency Care Practitioner/Advanced Nurse Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- 5% high cost area allowance
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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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