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This is an exciting opportunity to join our established ANP/GP team within FV Prison healthcare and participate in the ongoing development and transformation of nursing practice within the custodial setting.
Are you a dynamic individual who enjoys a challenging but rewarding role in addition to ongoing support with your professional development?
If this is you, then apply for the role of Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and become part of our NHS FV Prison Healthcare ANP/GP team.
As a Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat patients within our 3 national prisons: HMPYOI Stirling, HMPYOI Polmont & HMP Glenochil.
You will ensure patient health needs are met through the autonomous provision of diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment, and review planning process. This will be facilitated in partnership with patients.
This role also involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, SPS partners and patients. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across our multi-disciplinary prison healthcare teams to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence-based standards, guidelines and policy.
As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience you will be educated to or be prepared to work towards an appropriate Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice which enables competence in:
- Advanced Clinical assessment
- Clinical Decision Making
- Non-medical prescribing- V300
Excellent professional leadership, team working, advanced clinical assessment and decision making skills are all key to this role. You will be flexible to the needs of the role and service and will support the Healthcare Manager in developing the service to assure safe, patient centered and effective care delivery applying the 4 pillars of practice at an advanced level.
Hours are Monday to Friday 0800-1600hrs and occasional Saturday morning clinic (approx. 1 in 6) to facilitate admission clinic at HMP Stirling. Ability to travel across all 3 prison sites is required (at times this may mean travel between 2 sites in one day). Ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery is essential for this post.
This post will also be considered as in training position under Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change terms & conditions.
Trainee ANP Candidates will be placed on Band 7 Annex 21 and will be subject to completion of an agreed competency framework. Training will be completed over a maximum period of 21 months from date of appointment.
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this schemae can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk
For informal enquiries, please contact Fiona Donnelly, Healthcare Manager on fiona.donnelly@nhs.scot or Leona Paget, Service Manager on Leona.paget@nhs.scot
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NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.