Advanced Nurse Practitioner Role

Job Summary

Great North Medical Group is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our established and supportive nursing team. This role offers the opportunity to deliver exceptional care within a diverse clinical portfolio, in a forward-thinking, modern, and structured environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner who is dedicated to delivering high-quality care and thrives in a dynamic healthcare setting.

Main Duties of the Job

As an integral part of our team, the successful candidate will practice autonomously, utilising their professional expertise to make informed decisions based on assessments, diagnoses, and interpretation of test results. You will independently prescribe appropriate medications, evaluate, and where necessary, refer patients to other specialists.

Your responsibilities will include providing care through face-to-face appointments, telephone consultations, and home visits. Working within your professional scope of practice and agreed limits, you will offer expert clinical advice to patients, carers, and colleagues, ensuring that clinical safety and excellence are always maintained.

About Us

Great North Medical Group is a leading primary care provider operating from two key sites: Chestnut Avenue in Carcroft and Princess Street in Woodlands. With a dedicated team of 9 General Practitioners, 2 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 7 Nurses, and 4 Healthcare Assistants, the practice serves a patient population of approximately 17,000, making it one of the largest medical practices in Doncaster.

The practice is committed to delivering exceptional care and operates under the motto, to be the best. It is our mission to improve the health, well-being, and lives of those under our care.

Job Responsibilities

Clinical Nursing Practice

• Collaborative Care: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, high-quality care, supporting the overall health and well-being of a diverse patient population.
• Patient Assessment and Diagnosis: Serve as the first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. Conduct thorough history-taking, physical examinations, and use critical thinking in clinical decision-making to establish a diagnosis and develop a comprehensive management plan.
• Acute and Chronic Condition Management: Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating drug- and non-drug-based treatments into individualised care plans, while proactively identifying and managing treatment plans for patients at risk of developing long-term conditions.
• Holistic Care: Provide holistic, patient-centred care by developing ongoing support and care plans for patients and their families, with a focus on prevention, self-care, and overall health promotion.
• Health Promotion and Education: Promote health and well-being using health promotion strategies, health education, and therapeutic communication, encouraging patients to adopt healthier lifestyles and practice self-care.
• Clinical Leadership: Provide leadership within the practice, mentoring and supervising the nursing team, including healthcare assistants, and fostering an environment of evidence-based practice. Contribute to the delivery of key performance indicators, Quality and Outcomes Framework, and other performance monitoring systems.
• Medication Management: Prescribe and review medications based on the latest evidence-based practices, national and practice protocols, and within the scope of your qualified practice. Offer guidance on prescribed and over-the-counter medications, including advice on side effects, interactions, and regimens.
• Care Coordination: Coordinate patient care plans, ensuring patients and their families are actively involved in the decision-making process. Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments and interventions.
• Diagnostic Investigations: Request and interpret diagnostic investigations, such as x-rays, blood tests, and scans, within agreed protocols, to support accurate diagnosis and treatment.
• Clinical Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records in accordance with NMC guidelines and other relevant standards, ensuring patient safety and continuity of care.
• Triage and Urgent Care: Prioritise and triage patients' health problems, intervening appropriately in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiating effective emergency care when needed.
• Mental Health Support: Assess, identify, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with national guidelines, such as the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
• Community-Based Care: Provide care both in practice premises and in patients' homes, ensuring that all interventions are delivered safely and effectively, with appropriate referrals to other agencies when necessary.
• Contractual Support: Assist the practice in fulfilling contractual requirements by supporting clinical tasks and contributing to the delivery of high-quality patient care.
• Evidence-Based Care: Provide care in accordance with NSF, NICE guidelines, and the latest evidence-based practices, ensuring consistency and excellence in clinical delivery.

Care Management

Communicates confidential and sensitive information to patients, relatives, and carers in relation to their condition.

Provide highly specialised care advice beyond the scope of normal nursing practice care treatment plans, making referrals as appropriate and including fast-track referrals.

Contribute to local and national practice targets clinical remit QOF, prescribing incentive scheme, National benchmarking.

To monitor and meet care outcomes against standards and recommend or initiate changes as necessary.

Health Improvement

Management of health screening programmes and ensures other team members are aware of health priorities and screening objectives and programmes.

Innovation in practice to meet ongoing demands on the practice's delivery of care.

Improve health outcomes for patients by introducing new developments and can demonstrate them as reports and presentations where appropriate.

Supports practitioners in reporting the practice population to promote health improvement and disease prevention.

Makes referrals to appropriate agencies - statutory and voluntary where necessary.

Administration and Professional Responsibilities

Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team.
• Accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients' notes.
• Ensure clinical systems kept up to date, recording and/or amending accurate details.
• Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator.
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the practice.
• Attend and participate in practice meetings as required.
• Restocking and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms.

Training and Personal Development

• Maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge, maintaining awareness of professional issues at an advanced level.
• Training needs will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the practice.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self-reflection and peer review, as well as benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Contribute to the identification and assessment of learning needs of staff and other professionals and assist in planning effective programmes of education.
• Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the introduction of all members of the practice staff where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain an in-house nurse-training programme reporting to the practice manager.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning, and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work and ensure own educational commitment is at least sufficient to maintain revalidation requirements.
• Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan.
• Regularly participate in clinical supervision.