Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Derby Family Medical Centre; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

Derby Family Medical Centre is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join its clinical team. The role requires independent working in primary care and a prescribing qualification, supported by senior GPs and a friendly admin team.

You will work autonomously, assess and manage patients, provide prescriptions, and participate in same-day appointment triage while prioritising care within the practice setting.

Qualifications

• Essential: independent prescribing within scope of practice.
• Essential: current UK professional registration (NMC).
• Essential: Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Responsibilities

• Autonomous practice within a primary care team.
• Make referrals, investigations and management decisions.
• Initial history taking, assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning.

Skills

Independent prescribing

UK registration

Clinical decision making

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for a dynamic and committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Derby Family Medical Centre to work as part of the clinical team and support the delivery high level care for our patients. Experience of independent working in primary care and having a prescribing qualification is essential.

You will be working as part of a primary care team that prides itself on the delivery of high quality healthcare services. you will be well supported by senior GPs as well as a friendly and enthusiastic admin team.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work independently, making professional, autonomous decisions.

• You will be responsible for making any necessary referrals, requests for investigations and do these in in an appropriate manner and timescale.
• The role will involve initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment plan and evaluation of patient care.
• The role will involve independent prescribing within the scope of professional practice.
• The advanced nurse practitioner will support the GP team managing same day appointment requests from patients.
• The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, seeking GP input as appropriate where the problem lies outside their professional capability.
• You will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and a high level of independent care including assessment, diagnostic and prescribing skills.
• You will attend patients with urgent medical problems

About us

Derby Family Medical Centre has a very warm and family friendly atmosphere with patients from multi ethnic background. We have strong work ethics, providing patient care and team work.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached.

Details

Date posted: 28 October 2026

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: Depending on experience

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: A4958-26-0008

Job responsibilities

Derby Family Medical Centre recognise the Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner as a core role within our working teams. We expect all of our NMC registered nurses to uphold the 2018 NMC The Code Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates.

Summary of main responsibilities

To work as an autonomous practitioner

Responsible for:

• Attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional
• Diagnosing, treating and prescribing for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed illness or injury
• Making an assessment of their needs, based on highly developed nursing skills including physical assessment.
• Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs
• Patients are to be seen in a timely manner enabling contractual requirements to be met
• The ANP will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. There will be a requirement to see extra or emergency patients
• Responsible for developing, with the patient, a continuing management plan for the health of the patient and when appropriate to refer to other clinicians and agencies
• To provide high quality nursing services to a defined practice population
• The role will include responsibility within the practice for the development and direction of the clinical and managerial aspects of nursing care, as well as an advanced clinical role
• The role is flexible and demanding and may be expanded in accordance with practice requirements and the nurse practitioners own scope of practice.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Primary care experience
• Prescriber
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check
• Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Desirable

• Paediatric and Gynaecology experience

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).

Employer details

Employer name: Derby Family Medical Centre

Address: Derby Family Medical Centre, 1 Hastings Street, Derby, DE23 6QQ, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.derbyfamilymedicalcentre.co.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager: Aneesa Ajaib

[e-mail]

01332773243