Advanced Nurse Practitioner​/Advanced Clinical Prescribing Practitioner

We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Prescribing Practitioner to add to our urgent care team. The successful candidate will be working alongside our ANPs, ACP and AHPs to provide urgent care to our population for 37,000 patients. The team will be led by a GP on site, and supported by the wider team across Hamble Valley Health.

Duties will include telephone and face to face assessments of patients who have been signposted to an appointment at the Urgent Care Centre by our clinical team. You will work as part of a larger team, supported by a GP lead.

Blackthorn Health Centre and Hedge End Medical Centre have merged and are now known as Hamble Valley Health.

Ourlist size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly concentrated in Hamble,Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide high quality, accessiblemedical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a supportive and pleasantworking environment for clinicians and staff.

Weare part of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, and offer General Medical Services to our patients.

Weare a training practice, and take registrar doctors and also teach medical students from Southampton School of Medicine.

The practice has eight Partners.

The current Partnership team is Dr Tomson, Dr Harris, Dr Cropley, Dr Graham, DrSonpal, Dr Shahsavanspour, Dr Yates and Dr McKenzie.

We employ fourteen salaried GPs,five Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a First Contact Prescribing Paramedic, three

Visiting Paramedics, a Nursing team of fifteen, and a reception/admin team of seventy.

The practice uses Emis as aclinical system. We are paper light, so scan all incoming correspondence ontopatients medical records.

Main Purpose: To be responsible for independently leading and managing practice, using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgement for highly complex decision-making across a broad range of situations/conditions.

To work autonomously, but as part of the Duty Team, using advanced knowledge and skills, underpinned by theory and experience, to holistically assess the identified patient caseload, using a range of methods across a broad range of, often complex, patient conditions.

To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to optimise health outcomes and resource use, as well as providing direct support to patients and carers.

To promote the proposal and implementation of service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care.

The post holder is expected to be able to:

Hold sole responsibility for a range of duties, relevant to post

• Works unsupervised, clinically examining and assessing patients and initiating any appropriate action.
• Make independent, autonomous clinical decisions relating to patient condition and treatment / care. May require minimal support and will be expected to obtain support from GPs to make decisions, which may be outside their scope of clinical knowledge.
• Exercise significant discretion in the delivery of this role, being guided by policies and procedures and implementing appropriate action in order to achieve expected results. Proposes and implements appropriate changes to policy / service provision as consequence of interpretation of local and/or national guidance/research findings.

Key Working Relationships: Working daily as part of the Duty Team, having own list of patients to assess and treat, but also assisting, where time allows, with Critical Care list and any emergencies that arise.

Working with the Econsult administrators to ensure clinical and patient management is safe and time efficient.

Working with the Reception team to ensure clinical and patient management is safe and time efficient.

Key responsibilities (General Duties):

Responsibility for patient care, communication, planning, organisation, analysis, freedom to act, research and service development

Advanced clinical practice / direct patient care

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