Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Job summary

Are you a motivated, well organised and a skilled Advanced Nurse Practitioner? Are you committed to delivering high-quality healthcare to patients?Do you want to make a real difference in peoples lives?

Due to continued growth, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, committed Advanced Nurse Practitionerto join our practice in Norton.

This Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will involve working alongside a multidisciplinary team, including GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists and Nurses to provide care and treatment to patients with either long term conditions or undiagnosed undifferentiated diagnoses.

The successful Advanced Nurse Practitionerwill work as an autonomous practitioner, diagnosing, managing, prescribing and discharging patients with illness or injury across all age groups including young children. This may be by face-to-face consultation, telephone or video consultation.

Main duties of the job

The successful postholder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the postholder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Key Responsibilities:

An autonomous consultor

10-minute consultations x 15 slots morning and 15 slots afternoon

Share of home visits.

Able to manage acute presentations

Able to manage chronic conditions

Able to order appropriate investigations (bloods/radiology).

Able to refer appropriately to secondary care or organise emergency admissions.

Share of admin: clinical letters which require actioning/filing.

Able to file pathology results

Able to see all age groups

No restrictions on prescribing.

Able to see pregnant women in regards non pregnancy related issues.

Able to deal with mental health presentations

About us

About us

The team you will be working with as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner;

A fully staffed multi-disciplinary team including a full complement of Administration Staff

You will be supported by 6 GP partners, 5 salaried/retainer GP's & 1 ANP, 1NP, 6 Practice Nurses & 4 HCAs

The team are a progressive and collaborative group, ready to welcome on board any successful additions

Teamwork and mutual support are integral to our working practices and the successful Advanced Nurse Practitionermust share this vision.