WIGHT PRIMARY PARTNERSHIPS

Responsibility

• other roles include supporting clinical colleagues, clinical mentoring and supporting the management team in reviewing clinical policy and procedures
• to work as an autonomous Practitioner, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within your scope of practice to our patient population
• the main role of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner is to be an active member of the same day acute duty team, remotely triaging patients by telephone or eConsult, diagnosing, treating and/ or referring
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• should a patient require further assessment for diagnosis, face to face appointments can be arranged. There could also potentially be some home visiting required with this role
• in this role you should be able to work within your clinical competencies and would need to prescribe in line with the ‘Prescribing in the community’ guidelines
• we would also expect you to adopt our practice ethos of patient centred care, focussing on prevention and patient education to support self-help and health engagement
• deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
• undertake any training required in order to meet the needs of the practice
• make direct referrals to primary, secondary and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols
• where required provide supervision and mentoring to other staff in order to help them develop their knowledge, skills and abilities