Enhanced Practice Nurse

Job summary

Creffield Medical Group PCN is looking to recruit an enhanced practice nurse within the ARRS roles to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.

This is a full time position, predominantly based at Turner Road Surgery but the candidate may be asked to work in the wider PCN group; across Creffield, Nayland and West Bergolt surgeries.

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to masters level, they will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

Main duties of the job

• demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• be practising autonomously as an enhanced practice nurse within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

The Turner Road Surgery is a 2-partner, 3 salaried GP , training practice, with other clinical staff complimenting the team, to provide a safe and efficient service to our patients. The practice is within the partnership of the Creffield Medical Centre providing general medical services.

The organisation offers a full range of services, all of which are detailed on the organisation website: www.turnerroadsurgery.co.uk.

The organisation was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in June 2022 and was assessed as good. The report for this inspection can be found via the website above.