Palace Road Surgery

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 31 July 2025

Job summary

Advanced Nurse Practitioner position to provide a comprehensive and autonomous level of care including assessment, diagnosis, treatmennt and prescribing for patints with complex needs.

Main duties of the job

To work independently utilising expert knowledge and skills to manage a range of conditions. To play a sigificant role in service transformation, workforice development, and improving the overall safety and quility of care.

About us

We are a warm and friendly practice, which offers really interesting and varied patient caseloads, and a fantastic work-life balance. You will be joining a well-established primary care team working with five other Streatham PCN practices. We have a mixed patient population with many generations of patients who have stayed registered with our practice for many years. We see ourselves as a traditional family GP Surgery and have established a good rapport with our patients. We are a training practice with a list size of just over 8000 patients.

Date posted

14 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A3876-25-0000

Job locations

1 Palace Road

London

SW2 3DY

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the ACP. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels. You will work within your own scope of clinical practie.

a. Provide clinical leadership and supervision colleagues.

b. Provide planned or unplanned care to patients as required, in accordance with clinically based evidence, NICE guidance, the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework and the Direct Enhanced.

c. Triage, examine, diagnose offer treatment, or liaise on patient care with the most appropriate member of the clinical team as required.

d. Maintain accurate clinical records in line with legislation, ensuring read codes are used correctly.

e. Ensure continuity of care, arranging follow-up consultations or reviews as necessary.

f. Review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes.

g. Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs where appropriate.

h. Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice).

i. Acting in accordance with local and National safeguarding policies and procedures and having an awareness of vulnerable patients in our community.

j. Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure that the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.) .

k. Ensure that they adhere to the relevant patient group directives and local clinical pathways at all times.

l. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.

m. Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.