Job summary
Join Our Progressive GP Practice as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner
We're seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Advanced Nurse Practitioner to become a key member of our friendly, forward-thinking team. At our practice, you'll enjoy genuine autonomy, a supportive multi-disciplinary environment, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives every day. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality care, developing professionally, and working where your expertise is truly valued, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Nurse practitioner will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as Minor illness and injury assessments, health promotion, chronic disease management, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.
About us
At West Meads, teamwork is at the heart of everything we do. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive, collaborative environment where patient-centred care is always our top priority. With a patient list size of 8,000, we are a well-established, friendly surgery offering a diverse and dynamic clinical team. Our multidisciplinary setup includes 3 GP Partners, 1 Paramedic Partner, 5 Salaried GPs, 2 Paramedics, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a skilled nursing team, a Health & Wellbeing Coach, Physiotherapist, Clinical Pharmacist, Midwife, and an outstanding non-clinical support team.
In addition to our positive workplace culture, we offer a range of benefits, including:
- 6 weeks annual leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a typical day, you will have your own patient appointment list and be responsible for managing your own workload, including appropriately triaging patients. As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care, you will support the duty team as part of a collaborative environment with GP and Advanced Practitioner supervision. You will see patients face-to-face or contact them by telephone during minor illness and injury clinics, providing treatment and making necessary referrals to other members of the primary or secondary healthcare teams. You will also see patients for chronic disease management, providing ongoing care, monitoring, and support for long-term conditions. You will undertake community visits as an autonomous practitioner, supported by the duty team. This includes supporting the care of complex patients in their own homes, including those in nursing or residential accommodation, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The following are the core responsibilities of the advanced Nurse Practitioner. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Attending multidisciplinary, clinical, and staff meetings.
- Undertaking health reviews e.g. for patients with learning disabilities or dementia etc, resulting in the production of health action plans.
- Assisting in the development of advanced care plans for frail or end-of-life patients, in collaboration with care coordinators and other teams.
- Making direct referrals to primary, secondary, and social care services in line with locally agreed pathways, guidelines, and protocols.
- Helping or leading projects such as vaccine rollouts in care homes and housebound patients.
- Taking on lead roles within the surgery e.g. Carers lead.
- Keeping up-to-date with mandatory training.
- Working with the surgery team to better patient care e.g., achieving Quality and outcome frameworks are achieved.
- Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
- 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 and local guidelines.
- Provide wound care to patients
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- A willingness to train and learn new skills, supported by the team and supervisor.
In addition to the above responsibilities, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner may be requested to:
- Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
- Act as the IPC lead for the practice, ensuring compliance, undertaking audit as necessary
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead 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
- Drives the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising external agencies and professional organisations as required
- Develops practice administrative and clinical protocols in line with the needs of the patient and current legislation
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a typical day, you will have your own patient appointment list and be responsible for managing your own workload, including appropriately triaging patients. As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care, you will support the duty team as part of a collaborative environment with GP and Advanced Practitioner supervision. You will see patients face-to-face or contact them by telephone during minor illness and injury clinics, providing treatment and making necessary referrals to other members of the primary or secondary healthcare teams. You will also see patients for chronic disease management, providing ongoing care, monitoring, and support for long-term conditions. You will undertake community visits as an autonomous practitioner, supported by the duty team. This includes supporting the care of complex patients in their own homes, including those in nursing or residential accommodation, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The following are the core responsibilities of the advanced Nurse Practitioner. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Attending multidisciplinary, clinical, and staff meetings.
- Undertaking health reviews e.g. for patients with learning disabilities or dementia etc, resulting in the production of health action plans.
- Assisting in the development of advanced care plans for frail or end-of-life patients, in collaboration with care coordinators and other teams.
- Making direct referrals to primary, secondary, and social care services in line with locally agreed pathways, guidelines, and protocols.
- Helping or leading projects such as vaccine rollouts in care homes and housebound patients.
- Taking on lead roles within the surgery e.g. Carers lead.
- Keeping up-to-date with mandatory training.
- Working with the surgery team to better patient care e.g., achieving Quality and outcome frameworks are achieved.
- Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
- 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 and local guidelines.
- Provide wound care to patients
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- A willingness to train and learn new skills, supported by the team and supervisor.
In addition to the above responsibilities, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner may be requested to:
- Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
- Act as the IPC lead for the practice, ensuring compliance, undertaking audit as necessary
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead 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
- Drives the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising external agencies and professional organisations as required
- Develops practice administrative and clinical protocols in line with the needs of the patient and current legislation
Person Specification
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 1 Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- 2 Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
- 3 Proven experience working autonomously in a primary care or urgent care setting
- 4 Skilled in clinical assessment, diagnostics, and treatment planning
- 5 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- 6 Strong commitment to patient-centred care and evidence-based practice
- 7 Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
- 8 Strong organisational and time-management skills
- 9 Confident using clinical systems and IT for documentation and communication
Desirable
- 1 Experience supervising or mentoring junior staff or students
- 2 Knowledge of QOF, local enhanced services, and NHS frameworks
- 3 Familiarity with SystmOne clinical systems
- 4 Additional qualifications or skills in chronic disease management or minor illness/injury
- 5 Involvement in quality improvement or audit projects
Person Specification
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 1 Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- 2 Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
- 3 Proven experience working autonomously in a primary care or urgent care setting
- 4 Skilled in clinical assessment, diagnostics, and treatment planning
- 5 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- 6 Strong commitment to patient-centred care and evidence-based practice
- 7 Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
- 8 Strong organisational and time-management skills
- 9 Confident using clinical systems and IT for documentation and communication
Desirable
- 1 Experience supervising or mentoring junior staff or students
- 2 Knowledge of QOF, local enhanced services, and NHS frameworks
- 3 Familiarity with SystmOne clinical systems
- 4 Additional qualifications or skills in chronic disease management or minor illness/injury
- 5 Involvement in quality improvement or audit projects
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).
