ECHSS Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be a senior clinical nurse within the Enhanced Care Home Support Service, leading a team and providing both an urgent, reactive response to people cared for within the nursing and residential homes in Warrington. To ensure a timely clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment as required, as well as proactive, planned holistic assessments, aimed at optimising management of medical conditions, including frailty, and supporting with Advance Care Planning. The aim is to support people to remain within the care home setting rather than admit to hospital, where appropriate.

The role will require the postholder to act as an independent autonomous practitioner to provide treatment and advice to patients and care home staff, both face to face and over the telephone, which will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, care and treatment of patients, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.

The postholder must possess and demonstrate extended clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of patient care needs, enabling professional autonomy and clinical judgement in managing and referring patients on to wider services, whilst maintaining close working relationships with GPs / Primary Care Networks to support the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework and Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings.

Job responsibilities

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.