Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Diabetes

North Uttlesford PCN is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.

The role is a part time, with a minimum of one session per fortnight at each of the GP practices across North Uttlesford, as well as some supervision time allocated. The PCN will work with the successful candidate to agree the days of work. 

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to master’s level, they will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

The post-holder will:

• demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the diabetes speciality to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

Are you an experienced healthcare worker, looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Professional registration with relevant professional body
• Post-graduate qualification in Diabetes, or equivalent experience
• Post-registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area
• Evidence of on-going CPD
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situations
• Sound clinical reasoning & decision making
• Flexibility
• Ability to inspire and lead a team
• Ability to work in a collaborative way across systems and organisational boundaries

In short, our purpose is to support people to live longer, better.

Our 4 strategic goals reflect our ambition and the challenges we face both nationally and locally:

• Improve the health and wellbeing of the population (health and quality of life outcomes)
• Improve the user experience of care (quality, access and satisfaction)
• Improve productivity by reducing the per capita cost of care delivery (doing more for less); and
• Improve the staff experience ensuring everyone is valued (achieving an enjoyable work life balance).