Job summary
Advanced Nurse Practitioner ,Cottenham Surgery - 188 High St, Cottenham, Cambridge CB24 8SE
Our aim is to provide our patients with the highest quality of health care services through our team of health care professionals. Patients will be treated confidentially and with courtesy.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Benefits:
- Annual salary of up to £55,000 dependant on qualifications and experience.
- NHS Pension
- 40 hours
- 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Support with Training
Main duties of the job
In this role you will work independently, making professional, autonomous decisions.
- You will be responsible for making any necessary referrals, requests for investigations and do these in in an appropriate manner and timescale.
- The role will involve initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment plan and evaluation of patient care.
- You will be responsible for making any necessary referrals, requests for investigations and do these in in an appropriate manner and timescale.
- The role will involve independent prescribing within the scope of professional practice.
- The advanced nurse practitioner will support the GP team managing same day appointment requests from patients.
- The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, seeking GP input as appropriate where the problem lies outside their professional capability.
- You will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and a high level of independent care including assessment, diagnostic and prescribing skills.
- You will attend patients with urgent medical problems
About us
Malling Health (UK) Limited are a network of over 25 primary care sites across the UK, including GP Practices, Walk-In Centres, and Urgent Care Centres offering APMS contracts. Our practices provide traditional GP and nurse-led services for both registered and non-registered patients. Our philosophy is to provide a friendly, supportive place to work and to encourage innovation with the aim of delivering high quality care to our patients.
Please note that all posts are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Please contact us now to be part of our dedicated team!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Malling Health recognise the Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner as a core role within our working teams. Whilst we acknowledge the Royal College of Nursing ANP standards we recognise that there is more than one way to meet these standards. Therefore, we do not stipulate that a Masters level qualification is required, more that the person meets the level of qualifications required to be an ANP. We require ANPs to have 180 level 7 points. First and foremost, we expect all of our NMC registered nurses to uphold the 2018 NMC `The Code Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates.
SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
To work as an autonomous practitioner
Responsible for:
Attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional
Diagnosing, treating and prescribing for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed illness or injury
Making an assessment of their needs, based on highly developed nursing skills including physical assessment.
Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs
Patients are to be seen in a timely manner enabling contractual requirements to be met
The ANP will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. There will be a requirement to see extra or emergency patients
Responsible for developing, with the patient, a continuing management plan for the health of the patient and when appropriate to refer to other clinicians and agencies
To provide high quality nursing services to a defined practice population
The role will include responsibility within the practice for the development and direction of the clinical and managerial aspects of nursing care, as well as an advanced clinical role
The role is flexible and demanding and may be expanded in accordance with practice requirements and the nurse practitioners own scope of practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Malling Health recognise the Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner as a core role within our working teams. Whilst we acknowledge the Royal College of Nursing ANP standards we recognise that there is more than one way to meet these standards. Therefore, we do not stipulate that a Masters level qualification is required, more that the person meets the level of qualifications required to be an ANP. We require ANPs to have 180 level 7 points. First and foremost, we expect all of our NMC registered nurses to uphold the 2018 NMC `The Code Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates.
SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
To work as an autonomous practitioner
Responsible for:
Attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional
Diagnosing, treating and prescribing for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed illness or injury
Making an assessment of their needs, based on highly developed nursing skills including physical assessment.
Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs
Patients are to be seen in a timely manner enabling contractual requirements to be met
The ANP will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. There will be a requirement to see extra or emergency patients
Responsible for developing, with the patient, a continuing management plan for the health of the patient and when appropriate to refer to other clinicians and agencies
To provide high quality nursing services to a defined practice population
The role will include responsibility within the practice for the development and direction of the clinical and managerial aspects of nursing care, as well as an advanced clinical role
The role is flexible and demanding and may be expanded in accordance with practice requirements and the nurse practitioners own scope of practice.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of similar practice
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of similar practice
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).
