PCN Nurse Practitioner​/Advanced Nurse Practitioner

As a Registered Nurse Practitioner you will be expected to be able to perform core clinicalnurse practitioner responsibilities alongside delivering excellent health services.

• Delivering a high standard of patient care, using advanced, autonomousclinical skills and a broad in-depth theoretical knowledge-base.
• Assessing, diagnosing and treating patients with both minor and complex needs, initiating referrals as appropriate and planning clinical careaccordingly.
• Performing safe triage of patients when necessary via telephone or faceto face.
• Undertake home visits to provide timely assessment, diagnose, treatment, and ongoing management for patients identified through the network's practices.
• Prescribing medication appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
• Providing information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
• Prioritising health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Provide leadership, education and training to other healthcare professionals and staff.

Maidenhead Primary Care Network (PCN) is a progressivehealthcare organisation comprising nine practices serving 82,000 patients across Maidenhead. Operating as a limited company, we balance robust business management with healthcare excellence.

• Provide same-day and routine clinics for undifferentiated presentationswithin scope and protocols, with GP support where required.
• Provide clinical leadership to nursing/HCA teams within scope; support training, supervision and protocol development.
• Accurate, contemporaneous record-keeping and contribution to safeguarding, and medicines management governance.
• Work to local/national guidelines and support CQC always-ready standards across Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led domains.

• Experience of working within a nursing team.
• Experience of dealing with a variety of patients.
• The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and have sound clinical reasoning and decision making.
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP practice
• Experience with EMIS

• Current registration with the NMC
• To be considered for an Advanced role, the relevant Masters or accreditation although applications from a (non-Advanced) nurse Practitioner would also be accepted, such as Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or equivalent qualification.
• Master of Science (MSc) in Advanced Clinical Practice OR Studying towards completing the Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£50,000 to £57,000 a year depending on qualifications and experience