Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Neuromuscular

Job overview

The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and deliver expert care, including assessment, diagnostic skills, treatment and evaluation of patients who wish to be seen by a healthcare professional, presenting with minor illness and/or their continuing medical and nursing needs.

Main duties of the job

• Acting as an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles.
• Working as an autonomous clinical practitioner/nurse, providing high quality and timely patient centred care.
• Independently prescribe, working within the current guidelines, reviewing, and monitoring patient medications in accordance with the formulary.
• Delivering face to face/telephone/e-consult/video consultations as well as home visits.
• Directing care appropriately and managing complete episodes of care independently.
• Undertaking consultations with patients of all ages including children as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement, diagnose, treat, refer and/or discharge patients.
• Working within and across the MDT teams and signpost/draw upon expertise of all members to support and meet the patients' needs and best interests.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, ensuring accurate read coding.
• Participating in, and contribute to, all clinical targets (QOF, QIS, ES etc).
• Recommending, instigating, and explaining appropriate invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests, investigations and interpret findings and reports.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and deliver expert care, including assessment, diagnostic skills, treatment and evaluation of patients who wish to be seen by a healthcare professional, presenting with minor illness and/or their continuing medical and nursing needs.

• Acting as an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles.
• Working as an autonomous clinical practitioner/nurse, providing high quality and timely patient centred care.
• Independently prescribe, working within the current guidelines, reviewing, and monitoring patient medications in accordance with the formulary.
• Delivering face to face/telephone/e-consult/video consultations as well as home visits.
• Directing care appropriately and managing complete episodes of care independently.
• Undertaking consultations with patients of all ages including children as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement, diagnose, treat, refer and/or discharge patients.
• Working within and across the MDT teams and signpost/draw upon expertise of all members to support and meet the patients' needs and best interests.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, ensuring accurate read coding.
• Participating in, and contribute to, all clinical targets (QOF, QIS, ES etc).
• Recommending, instigating, and explaining appropriate invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests, investigations and interpret findings and reports.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.