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This is an exciting and rare opportunity for experienced registered staff nurses with no pre-requisite advanced practice courses to have the opportunity to develop and train as advanced nurse practitioners. Applicants should have a passion for working with our elderly and frail population, are willing and able to undertake Masters level education and have a genuine desire to develop their clinical nursing role. We are looking for dynamic and passionate staff nurses who want to become an ANP working in frailty. The successful candidates will be supported in meeting the advanced practice competencies using a triangulation approach of academic courses, professional supervision and clinical practice supervision.
Those appointed to the trainee ANP posts will be required to undertake a 2 to 3 year Post Graduate Diploma in advanced practice. Successful candidates will have clinical and professional supervision from our Forth Valley wide multi-disciplinary team to achieve the required knowledge, skills and competencies. To ensure a FV wide vision of frailty services the training posts will include rotations between all of our frailty services including acute in-patient wards, assessment units, same day emergency care units, community hospitals, care homes and our Hospital at Home Team. The trainee ANPs will therefore develop a breadth and depth of knowledge, skills and competencies to become a frailty ANP within acute services.
At the end of the supervised training and essential academic courses, the ANP will be required to have the knowledge and skills to assess patients with high clinical frailty scores and undertake comprehensive geriatric assessments. As an ANP you will be required to manage undifferentiated complex care presentations and be able to assess, diagnose and manage new acute presentations including acute exacerbations of long-term conditions.
To successfully gain a band 7 ANP post trainees will require to successfully complete a post graduate diploma in advanced practice incorporating these essential academic courses and the associated clinical competencies:
- HEI accredited Independent Prescribing Qualification - V300
- HEI accredited Clinical Examination & history taking course
- HEI accredited clinical decision-making module incorporating urgent care and frailty competencies
Informal enquiries to:
Dr Sharon Oswald – Nurse Consultant, Advanced Practice Lead for NHS Forth Valley, sharon.oswald@nhs.scot or Lisa Fabisiak on lisa.fabisiak@nhs.scot
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk
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