Job summary
East Basildon PCN (a collaboration of four GP practices serving approximately 27,000 patients) is seeking to appoint and welcome an enthusiastic and committed ANP to join our primary care network on a full-time basis, for 37.5 hours a week, to deliver a high standard of patient care. The successful candidate will work across the 4 practices within our PCN: Dr Simms & Partners, Matching Green Surgery, Aryan Medical Centre and Felmores Medical Centre.
We envisage that the successful candidate will adopt a highly proactive and collaborative approach in helping to develop this role further and in exploring their own development needs.
Main duties of the job
- Demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and should be a caring, compassionate, committed and experienced nurse who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. This care may be in several settings: surgery sites, nursing homes, patients homes or by telephone consultation.
- Act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending within primary care initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
- Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers, and colleagues to ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
- Develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods, and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of the PCN population.
About us
East Basildon PCN is a network made up of 4 surgeries who have 27,000 registered patients. Our vision is to work in partnership with our colleagues and patients to provide the best primary care services in the community. We use SystmOne clinical system across our PCN practices. Our team includes a variety of different professionals who can offer peer support and shared learning. This role will work as part of this large team that includes:
- Advanced nurse practitioners/advanced clinical practitioners
- Paramedics
- Social prescribers
- Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Nurse practitioners and healthcare assistants
We encourage our team members to share ideas offering suggestions for how our services can be delivered in order to improve our patient care across our local population. Our PCN values staff and can offer:
- NEST pension;
- A supportive and friendly working environment;
- Flexible working hours;
- 25 days annual leave per year, plus bank holidays (pro rata), increasing based on length of service with the company;
- Peer support;
- Support with training and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not
hesitate to get in contact with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If
you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not
hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a registered nurse, holding a current registration with the NMC.
- Hold a recognised ANP qualification at masters level.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification and prescribe safe, effective, and appropriate medication.
Experience
Essential
- Be able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Be forward-thinking and will strive to develop innovative ideas and new ways of working that address the health needs of the population, while motivating and encouraging others to do the same.
- Deliver a high standard of patient care, using advanced, autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth, theoretical knowledge base.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients conditions, initiating referrals as appropriate.
- Support members of the multidisciplinary team by providing leadership, education, and training to a range of staff.
- Provide supervision to the PCN nurse associate.
- Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, who looks to embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
- Be consistently compassionate and respectful placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
- Demonstrate highly developed clinical skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a registered nurse, holding a current registration with the NMC.
- Hold a recognised ANP qualification at masters level.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification and prescribe safe, effective, and appropriate medication.
Experience
Essential
- Be able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Be forward-thinking and will strive to develop innovative ideas and new ways of working that address the health needs of the population, while motivating and encouraging others to do the same.
- Deliver a high standard of patient care, using advanced, autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth, theoretical knowledge base.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients conditions, initiating referrals as appropriate.
- Support members of the multidisciplinary team by providing leadership, education, and training to a range of staff.
- Provide supervision to the PCN nurse associate.
- Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, who looks to embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
- Be consistently compassionate and respectful placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
- Demonstrate highly developed clinical skills.
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).
