# Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Havering Health Crest PCN **Company**: Havering Health Ltd **Location**: Romford, Essex **Job type**: permanent **Salary**: £55,000 to £64,000 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0167-26-0046?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bc3e000c-9de ## Description Havering Crest PCN are looking to expand their team by employing an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work alongside their practices and PCN staff. The post holder will be an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries, will utilise a range of advanced skills and expert knowledge for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. **Responsibilities:** - Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis - Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly - Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs - Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition - Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatment methods into a management plan - Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols - Work with patients to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments - Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions - Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations - Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles - Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning, cervical cytology, or sexual health consultation - Assess, identify, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs - Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes - Advise, support, and administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad - Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions - Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care - Undertake minor surgery as appropriate to competence **Communication:** - Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment - Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news - Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication **Delivering a Quality Service:** - Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct - Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation - Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines, and evidence-based care - Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review - Evaluate patients' response to healthcare provision and the effectiveness of care **Leadership, Personal, and People Development:** - Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services - Take responsibility for own learning and performance - Support staff development to maximise potential - Work with practice management to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality, and skill-mix **Team Working:** - Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time - Work as an effective and responsible team member - Delegate clearly and appropriately - Create clear referral mechanisms to meet patient need **Management of Risk:** - Manage and assess risk within areas of responsibility - Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards - Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation, and disposal of vaccines and drugs **Managing Information:** - Use technology and software as an aid to management in planning, implementation, and monitoring of care - Review and process data using accurate Read codes - Understand responsibility of self and others to the practice and primary care trust regarding the Freedom of Information Act **Learning and Development:** - Undertake mentorship for more junior staff - Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members - Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate - Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families, and colleagues **Secondary Responsibilities:** - Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes - Utilise the audit cycle to evaluate the quality of work - Collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare - Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery - Contribute to the appraisal of the performance of the team ## Skills ### Required - advanced clinical practice - patient assessment - diagnosis - treatment planning - medication management - communication - leadership - team working - risk management - information management --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0167-26-0046?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)