Locum Advanced Nurse Practitioner

role will involve assessing and triaging patients, including same day triage,

and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing

medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and

local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals

to other healthcare professionals.

Deliver

safe, effective, and evidence based care through autonomous clinical

decision-making, including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for a wide

range of conditions.

undertake and interpret diagnostics and take appropriate action to manage

patient care, distinguishing between abnormal and normal findings in order to

relate them to a possible diagnosis, using clinical guidelines as appropriate.

signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway.

Communicates

highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives and

carers.

To

maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and

clinical care provided, including adverse events.

Promote

collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all

members of the team at the Urgent Care Centre.

Ability

to interpret a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures.

Works

within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.

Report

all accidents, incidents, and all ill health, failings in equipment or

environment to line managers.

Maintain

and clean equipment as per guidelines that are used in the course of your duty.

Blackthorn

Health Centre and Hedge End Medical Centre have merged and are now known as

Hamble Valley Health.

list size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly concentrated in Hamble,

Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide high quality, accessible

medical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a supportive and pleasant

working environment for clinicians and staff.

list size is over 37000, and our patients are mainly concentrated in Hamble,

Bursledon, Hedge End and Botley. Our aim is to provide high quality, accessible

medical care to our patients, whilst maintaining a supportive and pleasant

working environment for clinicians and staff.

are part of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, and offer General Medical Services

to our patients.

are 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 Harris, Dr Cropley, Dr

Graham, Dr Sonpal, Dr Shahsavanspour, Dr Yates and Dr McKenzie.

We employ fourteen salaried

GPs, five Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nursing team of fifteen, and a

reception/admin team of seventy.

The practice uses Emis as a

clinical system. We are paper light, so scan all incoming correspondence onto

patients medical records.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Desirable; - Clinical supervision training and experience

Experience

Essential: - Nurse Prescribing; - Nurse led management of minor illness, minor ailments and other minor injuries; - Nurse led triage

Desirable: - 3 years plus recent primary or community nursing experience; - Compiling clinical protocols and guidelines