Job summary
St John's Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our enthusiastic and supportive Practice Team. The successful candidate must hold prescribing qualifications, be organised, motivated and caring to ensure the highest levels of care are delivered to our patient population through patient assessments, diagnosis and clinical management.
St John's Medical Centre is a large, fast paced GP surgery located in Grantham, offering excellent transport links with easy assess to the A1 and on the mainline for London. Two notable Grammar schools in Grantham are Kesteven and Grantham Girls School and The Kings School. We currently have circa 13,500 patients registered at the Surgery and retained our 'Good' rating in our latest CQC Regulatory Review.
We are flexible with regards to the number of hours for the role but would be looking for 30-37.5 hours per week, working Monday- Friday between the hours of 08:00am-18:30pm.
Main duties of the job
Working as an Independent Practitioner, the successful candidate will be required to assess, diagnose and manage patients with a variety of conditions. We offer a same day service and their maybe a requirement for occasional home visits to be undertaken.
The main duties of the role include but are not limited to:
- Being able to conduct a comprehensive physical health assessment of patients with complex multiple healthcare needs.
- Interpret results of multiple different assessments and investigations to make a diagnosis, and plan to deliver care.
- Prescribe and work with patients to manage their medicines, and to be able to make onward referrals where required.
- Competently make ethical, evidenced decisions and interventions when faced with complexity and assess the risk associated with these decisions
- Comfortable working both independently but also as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Comfortable with IT, our clinical systems include SystmOne and AskmyGP. (Full training and support of these systems can be provided).
- To work as Duty Buddy on selected days to help the Duty Doctor with the management of tasks, admin and results.
About us
St John's Medical Centre has a friendly and welcoming team. In addition, we are a Training Practice and regularly welcome GP Registers and Medical Students.
Working for St John's Medical Centre, we can offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Enhanced Annual Leave
- NHS Pension Scheme (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Discounts at major retailers/ restaurant and leisure facilities
- Free car parking
- Social events
- Supportive & friendly working environment
As a Practice we support Professional Development and would discuss any potential future development at interview if required.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Primary Responsibilities
- Working autonomously in an independent and Advanced Nursing role
- Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients
- Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
- Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
- Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation using primary care software
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines, reviewing annually as required
- Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
- Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice Team
- Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients care record
- Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration of the practice
- Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular adhoc reports and audits
- Ensuring when significant events are identified, they are recorded appropriately on GP Team Net.
Secondary Responsibilities
In addition to the primary responsibilities, the advanced nurse practitioner may be requested to:
- Complete audits
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Primary Responsibilities
- Working autonomously in an independent and Advanced Nursing role
- Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients
- Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
- Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
- Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation using primary care software
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines, reviewing annually as required
- Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
- Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice Team
- Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients care record
- Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration of the practice
- Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular adhoc reports and audits
- Ensuring when significant events are identified, they are recorded appropriately on GP Team Net.
Secondary Responsibilities
In addition to the primary responsibilities, the advanced nurse practitioner may be requested to:
- Complete audits
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Primary Care Environment
- Experience of working as a Nurse Practitioner
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Requesting Pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Understand the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GP's
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong IT skills
- Effective Time Management
- Ability to work as a Team Member and autonomously
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
Desirable
- Experience of Chronic Disease Management
- Knowledge of public health issues in local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Post Graduate Diploma or Degree (Advanced Practice Qualification) or working towards
- Qualified Nurse Prescriber
Desirable
- Qualifications
- Teaching Qualification
Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility to cover annual leave and sickness when required.
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Primary Care Environment
- Experience of working as a Nurse Practitioner
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Requesting Pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Understand the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GP's
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong IT skills
- Effective Time Management
- Ability to work as a Team Member and autonomously
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
Desirable
- Experience of Chronic Disease Management
- Knowledge of public health issues in local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Post Graduate Diploma or Degree (Advanced Practice Qualification) or working towards
- Qualified Nurse Prescriber
Desirable
- Qualifications
- Teaching Qualification
Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility to cover annual leave and sickness when required.
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
