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You will be working across role and organisational boundaries. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) manages the complete clinical care for their patients utilising expert knowledge base and clinical competence to support multi-professional teams within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, ensuring a high standard of clinical care, in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Safety Legislation. You will provide complete clinical care to people residing within the residential and care home sector. As a clinical leader, you will have the freedom and authority to act autonomously in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, including prescribing, of patients with multi-dimensional problems, this includes the authority to refer, admit and discharge within appropriate clinical areas. You can work in or across all clinical settings, dependant on your area of expertise. You will take and record a patient’s history including medical, family and social history, talking to the patient, relatives or other carers as appropriate. There may be significant barrier to understanding and acceptance due to sensitive or contentious information given and received. You will conduct a comprehensive clinical examination of the patient including a physical examination of all systems and a mental health assessment and screen patients for disease using clinical and other findings such as laboratory results or x-rays. It is essential that you are currently a Registered Nurse with the NMC and that you are recorded as a Nurse Independent/Supplementary Prescriber (V300) with the NMC. ANPs are educated at Masters Level in advanced practice and are assessed as competent in this level of practice. As a clinical leader they have the freedom and authority to act and accept the responsibility and accountability for those actions. This level of practice is characterised by high level autonomous decision making, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment including prescribing, of patients with complex multi-dimensional problems. The shift pattern for this post is 9.00am - 5.00pm.
Informal Contact: Ellice Morrison, Tel No: 07984004199
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs .