Care Home Team Manager / ANP

This is a new exciting opportunity for the right individual to help establish a brand-new service and lead on the provision of the Enhanced Health in Care Home aspect of the National DES PCN Contract for DGFT. The hope is this service will reach across large proportions of the Care Home Sector within Dudley giving a first-class provision of health 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 Advanced Nurse/Paramedics Practitioner (ANP) will lead on the provision for the "Enhanced Health in Care Home DES" leading a small team of health care professionals to provide this provision across approx. 40 care homes within the Dudley Borough. The right candidate will be expected to be familiar with Section 7.3.1 of the DES found on pages 45-47 of the 2019/20 Directly Enhanced Service document which is focused on the Enhanced Health in Care Homes provision.

The right candidate will act autonomously within their professional scope of their clinical remit, providing care for patients either by face- to-face assessment, telephone consultation or care home visits via the expectation of weekly ward rounds.

Main duties of the job

Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being.

Undertake duties associated with the Enhanced Health in Care Home (EHCH) National DES Requirements.

Be confident independently prescribing and reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evident practice, national and practice protocols.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with known long-term conditions.

Proactively Manage End Of Life (EOL) Care Planning working alongside other agencies, Hospices and organisations to identify and implement the correct documentation such as Respect especially for those residents who are approaching the last 12 months of life expectancy.

Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patents at risk of developing long term conditions as appropriate.

Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments.

Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations including initiation of effective emergency care.

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthy, and apply principles of self-care.

Here at the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do to offer a high-quality patient experience in a caring and supportive environment that aligns with our vision of providing excellent health care, improved health for all.