Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner - ANP/ACP (Paramedic)

Job summary

Are you an experienced nurse practitioner or advanced clinical practitioner looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

Hoveton and Wroxham Medical Centre is looking to recruit an advanced nurse practitioner/advanced clinical practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team. This role is to provide acute "on the day" appointments as well as pre-booked appointments for patients with acute illness or ongoing problems.

The role is part-time for 20 hours each week working Wednesday all day, Thursday morning and Friday afternoon. This may involve an early start, 6.45am and late finish, 8pm and some Saturday working. The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to undertaking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.

We are also happy to provide support to a newly qualified practitioner. Please contact Sheila Curtis at the practice if you wish to discuss this further.

Main duties of the job

• Assess, diagnose and treat undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions and minor injuries.
• Initiate appropriate care plans including requesting necessary tests, onward referral to other health care professionals and agencies and follow up consultations.
• Promote health and screening in relation to primary prevention strategies.
• Facilitate innovative approaches to effective systems and processes for patient management.
• Work with the clinical and management teams to deliver a timely, cost effective service.
• Treat a variety of acute and chronic presentations.
• Work independently to see patients in the surgery, in care homes and housebound patients.
• Work well under pressure and as part of a team delivering high quality care.
• Prescribe independently, safely and effectively.

About us

We are a well-established semi-rural practice with a patient population of over 10,000. We pride ourselves on our teams working together to provide a high-quality, effective, efficient, and reliable service to our practice population. We treat our patients with respect, dignity and the upmost care and compassion and are always looking for new and innovative ways to improve our services.

We are:

• An innovative and forward thinking practice.
• Effective users of SystmOne.
• Rated Good by CQC.
• A high QOF achiever.
• A well-established training practice and an accredited research practice.

Informal discussions and visits are welcome; please email: sheila.curtis5@nhs.net for further details.