Advanced Nurse Practitioner - HMP Woodhill

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit 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.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of the practice of the individual
Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour , referring patients appropriately
Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriat

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