The Green House Surgery

Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 24 October 2025

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an experienced Nurse Practitioner to support the clinical team in our busy GP Surgery in Redcar.

You will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and expert care, working collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be competent in the delivery of primary care to our practice population, having direct clinical involvement and extensive clinical knowledge.

They will assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients who attend with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions.

They will work as an independent and autonomous Care Practitioner providing a first point of access in primary health care.

The post holder will undertake, home visits, including care homes primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by the duty doctor and within boundaries of professional qualification.

They will also be able to provide clinical supervision and support to the nursing team, and advise and support while liaising with other practice staff.

About us

Our existing clinical team consists of 4 GP Partners, Salaried GP, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Advanced HCAs, HCAs, Phlebotomists, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.

Our resolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients, and, in turn, provides what we believe is a sustainable model of Modern General Practice. We have an overarching vision of Putting Patients First and providing services that tailor their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership, mentorship, teamwork, communication, problem- sharing and solving, training, education and continued development.

We have excellent public transport links (Redcar train stations are within walking distance) and have ample free on-site parking.

The Employment Package we offer includes:

  • A positive organisation culture with a friendly, supportive team;it's a nice place to work.
  • Salary negotiable depending on experience for the right candidate based on skills and experience.
  • A named GP mentor to provide support with more complex cases and processes as required.
  • 6 weeks annual leave plus a pro rata share of BH, plus study leave.
  • An unlimited education support package with NB medical.
  • An employee support package (with access to personal support resources).
  • Regular team meetings; including clinical educational meetings and regular clinical meetings.
  • NHS Pension Scheme

Details

Date posted

03 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

A3401-25-0010

Job locations

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

Teesside

TS10 4NW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description Nurse Practitioner

Responsible to Senior Partner - clinically and Business Manager organisational/administrative issues

Hours Full/Part Time

Salary Depending on clinical competence and experience

Job Summary

The post-holder will be competent in the delivery of primary care to patients in the practice population (with the only exception being children under the age of one), having direct clinical involvement and extensive clinical knowledge.

To assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients who attend surgery with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions.

They will work at an independent and autonomous Care Practitioner level providing a first point of access in primary health care

To undertake home visits, including Nursing/Residential Homes primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by your duty doctor, and within the boundaries of professional qualifications.

The post holder will use advanced clinical skills to provide education to patients, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment.

They will be able to provide clinical supervision and support to the nursing team, advice and support while liaising with other practice staff.

To enable clinicians to safely travel to visit patients in their own home; they are obliged to ensure that your vehicle is in good working order and covered by business class car insurance (any additional premium will be paid by the practice upon receipt of a copy of the vehicle insurance cost)

Upon request, a percentage of the Nurse Practitioners time may be spent on personal and practice development activities including audit, research, team development and clinical governance.

Job Responsibilities:

Diagnosing and treating patients

Triage and treat patients wishing to see a health care professional, making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team

Acute care providing clinical support/dealing with patients booked into the GP On Call clinics

Domiciliary Care seeing patients in their own homes who are too ill to attend surgery and/or performing a ward round/virtual ward round at our registered Nursing Homes

Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the Usual GP before making such referral.

Ensure clinical Practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledged limitations.

Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

To undertake home visits, primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by the Duty Team, and within the boundaries of professional qualifications.

To communicate at all levels within the team ensuring an effective service is delivered.

To maintain accurate, up-to-date healthcare records appropriate to the consultation.

Ensure evidenced-based care is delivered to the highest standards.Enhance own performance through Continuous Professional Development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service.

To participate in the audit process, evaluation and implementing plans and Practice change in order to meet patient need.

Contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the team and work colleagues.

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs

Administration and professional responsibilities

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team

Ensure SystmOne is kept up to date, with accurate details recorded and amended

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice

Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit

Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required

Training and personal development

Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.

Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the induction of all members of the Practice staff where appropriate

Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment.

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Liaison

As well as the nursing team, there is a need to work closely with Administration to ensure the smooth running of the Practice, reporting any problems encountered to the relevant person.

There is also the need to establish and maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies, including secondary care.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and with patients and will strive to recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Health & Safety

Practice staff will comply with all policies in relation to Health and Safety and ensure they complete any mandatory training as advised by the Practice Manager.Maintain an up to date knowledge of health and safety and infection prevention & control statutory and Practice guidelines.

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection prevention & control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity

Practice staff will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Quality

Practice staff will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Information Governance

Practice staff must keep up to date with the requirements of information governance and must follow Practice policies and procedures to ensure information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage the records they create or hold during the course of their employment with the Practice, making the records available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to the statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g Freedom of Information Act 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries into health records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, and that record keeping is up-to-date.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description Nurse Practitioner

Responsible to Senior Partner - clinically and Business Manager organisational/administrative issues

Hours Full/Part Time

Salary Depending on clinical competence and experience

Job Summary

The post-holder will be competent in the delivery of primary care to patients in the practice population (with the only exception being children under the age of one), having direct clinical involvement and extensive clinical knowledge.

To assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients who attend surgery with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions.

They will work at an independent and autonomous Care Practitioner level providing a first point of access in primary health care

To undertake home visits, including Nursing/Residential Homes primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by your duty doctor, and within the boundaries of professional qualifications.

The post holder will use advanced clinical skills to provide education to patients, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment.

They will be able to provide clinical supervision and support to the nursing team, advice and support while liaising with other practice staff.

To enable clinicians to safely travel to visit patients in their own home; they are obliged to ensure that your vehicle is in good working order and covered by business class car insurance (any additional premium will be paid by the practice upon receipt of a copy of the vehicle insurance cost)

Upon request, a percentage of the Nurse Practitioners time may be spent on personal and practice development activities including audit, research, team development and clinical governance.

Job Responsibilities:

Diagnosing and treating patients

Triage and treat patients wishing to see a health care professional, making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team

Acute care providing clinical support/dealing with patients booked into the GP On Call clinics

Domiciliary Care seeing patients in their own homes who are too ill to attend surgery and/or performing a ward round/virtual ward round at our registered Nursing Homes

Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the Usual GP before making such referral.

Ensure clinical Practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledged limitations.

Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

To undertake home visits, primarily for acute conditions, as assessed by the Duty Team, and within the boundaries of professional qualifications.

To communicate at all levels within the team ensuring an effective service is delivered.

To maintain accurate, up-to-date healthcare records appropriate to the consultation.

Ensure evidenced-based care is delivered to the highest standards.Enhance own performance through Continuous Professional Development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service.

To participate in the audit process, evaluation and implementing plans and Practice change in order to meet patient need.

Contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the team and work colleagues.

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs

Administration and professional responsibilities

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team

Ensure SystmOne is kept up to date, with accurate details recorded and amended

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice

Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit

Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required

Training and personal development

Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.

Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the induction of all members of the Practice staff where appropriate

Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment.

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Liaison

As well as the nursing team, there is a need to work closely with Administration to ensure the smooth running of the Practice, reporting any problems encountered to the relevant person.

There is also the need to establish and maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies, including secondary care.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and with patients and will strive to recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Health & Safety

Practice staff will comply with all policies in relation to Health and Safety and ensure they complete any mandatory training as advised by the Practice Manager.Maintain an up to date knowledge of health and safety and infection prevention & control statutory and Practice guidelines.

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection prevention & control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Reporting potential risks identified

Equality and Diversity

Practice staff will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights.

Quality

Practice staff will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Information Governance

Practice staff must keep up to date with the requirements of information governance and must follow Practice policies and procedures to ensure information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage the records they create or hold during the course of their employment with the Practice, making the records available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to the statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g Freedom of Information Act 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries into health records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, and that record keeping is up-to-date.

Person Specification

Skills/Abilities

Essential

  • An excellent standard of written and verbal English.
  • Excellent listening skills.
  • Ability to make autonomous decisions.
  • Ability to assess, minimise and manage risks and defuse stressful situations, ability to stay calm.
  • Competent use of IT systems, Excel, Word and Outlook.
  • Working independently.
  • Using policies & protocols.
  • Leadership skills.
  • Teaching and developing others.

Essential Other

Essential

  • Clean Driving Licence

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN with Nurse Practitioner degree and clinical skills (OSCEs)
  • Independent Prescribing qualification
  • Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
  • Current NMC registration
  • Please refer to job description/person supporting information.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a primary care setting or urgent care setting.
  • Ability to work within a team to provide the best outcome for the patient.
  • An ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge, to respond to enquiries and requests while adhering to Practice limitations.
  • Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by NMC.
Person Specification

Skills/Abilities

Essential

  • An excellent standard of written and verbal English.
  • Excellent listening skills.
  • Ability to make autonomous decisions.
  • Ability to assess, minimise and manage risks and defuse stressful situations, ability to stay calm.
  • Competent use of IT systems, Excel, Word and Outlook.
  • Working independently.
  • Using policies & protocols.
  • Leadership skills.
  • Teaching and developing others.

Essential Other

Essential

  • Clean Driving Licence

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN with Nurse Practitioner degree and clinical skills (OSCEs)
  • Independent Prescribing qualification
  • Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
  • Current NMC registration
  • Please refer to job description/person supporting information.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a primary care setting or urgent care setting.
  • Ability to work within a team to provide the best outcome for the patient.
  • An ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge, to respond to enquiries and requests while adhering to Practice limitations.
  • Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by NMC.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

The Green House Surgery

Address

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

Teesside

TS10 4NW


Employer's website

https://www.thegreenhousesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

The Green House Surgery

Address

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

Teesside

TS10 4NW


Employer's website

https://www.thegreenhousesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Business Manager

Lynne Waldon

lynne.waldon@nhs.net

01642511219

Details

Date posted

03 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

A3401-25-0010

Job locations

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

Teesside

TS10 4NW


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