GP Out of Hours Nurse Clinician

GP Out of Hours Nurse Clinicians are responsible for assessing, diagnosing and treating patients with minor illness/injury in the GP Out of Hours Service during evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays.

The service is looking to recruit to the below shifts:

Week 1 Tues + Wed 19:00-23:00

Week 2 Tues 19:00-23:00

Week 3 Tues + Wed 19:00-23:00

Week 4 Tues 19:00-23:00

Clinical responsibilities

1. Provide highly specialist advice for the GP OOHs Service to include making decisions regarding treatment, management of the patients in terms of their urgent needs without access to the fullprimary records.

2. Provide advanced and comprehensive clinical assessments based on highly developed nursing knowledge and skills.

3. Assess, diagnose, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presentingwith an undifferentiated diagnosis.

4. Clinically examine and assess patient (adult and children) needs from a physiological andpsychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.

5. As a key member of the clinical team the nurse clinician will make professional autonomous decisions within their scope of practice.