Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Woodhill

Key Responsibilities

• 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, 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
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients' health
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.)
• Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing etc.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Develop, implement and embed well man clinics
• Develop, implement and embed an effective call/recall system
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs

  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.
  
  Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.
  
  We're always looking torecruit 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.