Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Nottingham City GP Alliance is seeking a skilled and dedicated Nurse Practitioner (NP) to join our dynamic GP surgery teams across the Bilborough locality in Nottingham City. The successful candidate will provide high-quality care to patients across a range of conditions, working autonomously and collaboratively with GPs and the wider practice team.

Main duties of the job

See Job Description for full details. In summary:

1. Clinical Practice

• Undertake advanced clinical assessment.
• Independently diagnose, treat and manage patients
• Provide same-day and pre-bookable appointments for minor illness, acute presentations and exacerbations of long-term conditions
• Prescribe safely and effectively as an Independent Nurse Prescriber,
• Request, interpret and act upon investigations
• Recognise and appropriately escalate patients whose needs exceed NP scope to a GP or relevant specialist.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and high-quality clinical records using the practice clinical system.

2. Nursing Leadership & Professional Practice

• Act as a senior nursing clinician, role-modelling best practice and professional standards.

3. Quality, Governance & Safety

• Work within clinical governance frameworks to support safe, effective and high-quality care

4. Education & Continuous Professional Development

• Maintain professional registration and revalidation with the NMC
• Engage in regular clinical supervision (either peer review or with members of the medical team) and reflective practice.

5. Communication & Patient-Centred Care

• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and colleagues, including discussion of diagnoses, treatment options and self-care.

Professional Responsibilities

• Practice in accordance with the NMC Code and professional standards.
• Work within agreed scope of practice and recognise personal limitations.

About us

Nottingham City GP Alliance (NCGPA) is a federation owned by city general practices whose mission is to support practices to:

• provide high quality, person-centred, care
• Address deprivation and acknowledging diversity in our population
• Develop an effective and sustainable workforce for now and the futur

Our vision aims to:

• Support Nottingham owned General Practice to provide the best level of care to our urban population including our students and those who are disadvantaged
• Lever funds to strengthen General Practice in the city by having a focus on NHS strategic priorities including inequalities, severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), digitalisation and recovery from Covid
• Deliver city-wide services that makes sure people can access the right care at a time and place that is best for them
• Create a city-wide presence in city wide partnerships
• Develop a range of services to support practices maximise efficiency in practice administration
• Facilitate innovative ways for General Practice to enhance its service offer including the use of ARRS roles to create PCN multi-disciplinary teams
• Develop workforce training pathways for GPs, nurses and other professions in order to improve the working life of people working in the city