Nurse Practitioner

The purpose of the post is to delivery of safe, high quality primary care nursing services to the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and utilising primary care skills and experience, the post holder will provide advanced nurse interventions and influence development of nursing services.Using evidence-based knowledge, the post holder will deliver a high standard of care, making professionally autonomous and accountable decisions. The post holder will work within their professional boundaries to demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and cost-effective, expert care for patients within the practice.Main duties of the jobResponsible for providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their careWorking collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team and other healthcare professionals, promote integrated and seamless pathways of care to meet the needs of patientsCommunicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary teamImplements and works to ensure evidence based care best practiceActively participates and contributes to team meetingsInitiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carersActively involved in the development and implementation of service developments and initiativesParticipates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environmentEnsure that all complaints, untoward incidents, accidents and areas of clinical risk are identified and reported to the lead GP, Nurse Manager or Practice Manager in accordance with the organisational policy and expected professional practiceAbout usLAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.About the Practice/Department/TeamLakeside Healthcare at Yaxley is a well-established surgery with a list size of over 20,000, which is growing. We usually achieve full QOF points and have been awarded the RCGP Quality Practice Award twice.Lead by a GP Partner and Lead AHP, you would be one of an overall Nursing Team of 18, including Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Care Practitioners, Practice Nurses and HCAs, all working together to provide first class primary care.Job responsibilitiesThe purpose of the post is to delivery of safe, high quality primary care nursing services t0 the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and utilising primary care skills and experience, the post holder will provide advanced nurse interventions and influence development of nursing services. Using evidence based knowledge, the post holder will deliver a high standard of care, making professionally autonomous and accountable decisions. The post holder will work within their professional boundaries to demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and cost-effective, expert care for patients within the practice. The post holder will support service development, the safe delivery of policy and procedures, and demonstrate effective nurse advocacy and leadership.Person SpecificationExperienceCurrent experience of working in an independentand semi- autonomous role, diagnosing andExperience of managing/dealing with theEvidence of influencing change and demonstratesrecord of achievement in changing anddeveloping practiceProactive in improving and influencing the patientcare pathway/ journey.Demonstrates the ability to manage clinical riskand an understanding of health care governancesystemsExperience of using clinical systems & MicrosoftOffice softwareExperience inPrimary CareLeadership andmanagementexperienceExperience ofaudit andFamiliar withSystmOneQualificationsRegistered NurseDegree Level qualification in Advanced NursingPractice, Community Nursing or Specialist NursingEvidence of continued professional developmentLeadership courseAccrediteddiseasemanagementcourseDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr