Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

Safe@home is a new multi-agency and multi-professional integrated urgent response service within Cardiff & Vale UHB, which addresses a current gap in our range of intermediate care services. Its aim is to provide an immediate and safe alternative to ambulance conveyance, EU attendance and admission to hospital, when it is safe and appropriate to do so.

This new service was set up earlier this year in Cardiff and Vale, drawing upon learning from established services across Wales and England.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will form part of the core response team, working with and alongside a range of clinicians in the community, visiting patients in their own homes. You will work as part of the clinical team ensuring the safe assessment, management, referral and discharge of patients across the service.

You should possess a Masters level qualification in advanced clinical practice, be an independent prescriber and have previous experience in managing patients independently as an ACP.

You will be required to travel throughout the region on a daily basis and between the Cardiff and Vale office bases.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide a specialist advanced clinical resource for the Safe@Home service. They will undertake home visits for acute illness and will make clinical decisions within their competencies.
• Expertly manages own patient caseload of patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed Minor Illness and Injury within the Community.
• Perform house visits for patients with acutely deteriorating medical needs, autonomously assessing, diagnosing, advising and prescribing as needed.
• To work with the Clinical Board Directors and Lead Nurses to provide a focused and professional leadership for nurses, medical and allied health care professionals delivering care to patients within PCIC.
• Provide formal and informal teaching, support and clinical supervision to nursing staff, junior medical staff and ANPs.
• Promotes excellence in nursing practice through active delivery of an advanced level of nursing care to acutely unwell patients in the community setting.
• Participate in the MDT triaging of referrals into the Safe@Home service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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The Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will form part of the core response team, working with and alongside a range of clinicians in the community, visiting patients in their own homes. You will work as part of the clinical team ensuring the safe assessment, management, referral and discharge of patients across the service.

You should possess a Masters level qualification in advanced clinical practice, be an independent prescriber and have previous experience in managing patients independently as an ACP.

You will be required to travel throughout the region on a daily basis and between the Cardiff and Vale office bases.