Advance Nurse Practitioner - Enhanced Care Home Team

Job overview

This is a new exciting opportunity for the right individuals to join  a service that supports the provision of the Enhanced Health in Care Home aspect of the National DES PCN Contract.

This service reaches across large proportion of the Care Home Sector within Dudley giving a first class provision of health care to those residents who fall under the scope of this new service.

The vision for this service is that it will be regionally leading and improve the health care offering to the care home population enabling a more proactive health care vision with prevention and admission avoidance at the heart of the delivery model.

The aim of the Enhanced Care Home Team is to support the provision for the “Enhanced Health in Care Home DES” working in a small team of MDT health care professionals to provide this provision across approx. 40 care homes within the Dudley Borough.

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Main duties of the job

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and wellbeing
• Undertake duties associated with the Enhanced Health in Care Home (EHCH) National DES Requirements
• Manage a patient caseload and build relationships within allocated care homes within the Dudley locality
• Be confident independently prescribing and reviewing medication, this will be appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evident practice and national and practice protocols
• Triage visits and provide telephone advice as appropriate.
• Delivery of care in line with NICE guidelines and evidence-based care. · Identify patients who are entering the final months of life utilising the Gold Standard Framework (GSF) pro active identification guidance.
• Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved.
• Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
• Assess, diagnose and treat patients/residents within care homes who require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency if/as required.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake