Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Practitioner
Primary Care Careers
The closing date is 31 July 2024
Job summary
Alexandra and Crestview Surgeries have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced nurse practitioner or advanced nurse practitioner to join our busy but friendly team on a full-time basis. As a nurse practitioner, you will take on a dedicated and important role. You will run telephone triage clinics in the surgery, as well as have a patient-facing role, you may also undertake home visits.
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
- Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
- General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
- Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies.
- Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols.
- Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
- Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
- Hypertension review and management.
- Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
About us
Alexandra and Crestview Surgeries is a fantastic GP practice based over 2 sites with 15 300 patients. We have a great support network both clinically and administratively. You will be joining our current team of 3GP partners, 3 salaried GPs, 4 ANP/NPs, 5 practice nurses and 5 HCAs. We are teaching and research practice.
We are offering a good salary (depending on experience), NHS pension, annual leave and bank holidays (pro rata). We are part of the Lowestoft PCN and also offer Extended and Improved access appointments outside of core hours.
For further information about the role or an informal chat please contact Mrs Janette Hunter on 01502 576706.
Date posted
08 May 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience dependent on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
7515
Job locations
Alexandra Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1PL
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
Alexandra Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1PL
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)