Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Primary Care Management Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Law Medical Group Practice in NW London is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join its multidisciplinary primary care team. You will manage acute and chronic conditions, conduct health assessments and run specialist clinics, prescribing medications where appropriate.

You will work autonomously within your scope of practice, contribute to clinical policy development, safeguarding, audits, and service improvements across the practice.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with UK registration.
• Postgraduate/Advanced Practice qualification.
• Qualified Nurse Prescriber.
• Triage nursing experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with acute and chronic conditions, delivering specialist nursing care.
• Lead extended and independent clinical duties within scope of practice.
• Conduct health assessments and run specialist clinics.
• Prescribe medications in line with professional scope.
• Support safeguarding and contribute to clinical audits and service improvement.

Skills

Advanced practice qualification

Nurse prescriber

Triage nurse

Primary care experience

Education

Advanced Practice Qualification

Tools

Emis Web

Docman

Accurx

Job description

Job summary

Law Medical is seeking to recruit an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join its multidisciplinary primary care team. The role will involve delivering high-quality, patient-centred clinical care, supporting the assessment, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of acute and long-term conditions, while working collaboratively with GPs and other healthcare professionals.

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will work autonomously within your scope of practice to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. Key responsibilities include managing acute and chronic conditions, conducting health assessments, running specialist clinics, prescribing medications, and promoting health and disease prevention. You will also contribute to clinical policy development, support safeguarding, and play an active role in clinical audits and service improvement across the practice.

About us

The Law Medical Group Practice, is a long standing well established, well respected and well regarded teaching and training practice in NW London, Brent.

The practice operates across two sites; Willesden (main site), Wembley (branch site).

The practice have under new management undertaken a significant amount of changes in the last two years, including the recent merger with another local practice.

The practice list is 18,000 patients.

The practice is paperlight uses Emis Web + Docman, Accurx, E-Consult,

The practice is well supported by:

• 5 GP Partners
• 1 Non Clinical Managing / Executive Partner
• 4 Salaried GP's
• 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• 2 Physician Associates
• 2 Practice Nurses
• 4 phlebotomists / Healthcare Assistants
• 3 Practice Based Clinical Pharmacists
• 1 Pharmacy technician
• 2 Social Prescribers
• 2 In-House First Contact Physiotherapists
• 1 In-House Dietician

The practice provides

• E-Consultations
• Telephone Triage
• Minor Surgery & Cryotherapy
• Family Planning
• Minor Ailment clinics
• Respiratory Clinics
• Ante-natal / Well baby / Mum clinics

A dietician visits the branch site in Wembley
A community midwife visits the main site in Willesden
The practice is well supported by:

• Operations Manager
• Assistant Manager
• 2 x lead receptionist and facilities leads
• 2 x practice secretaries
• Finance assistant
• IT Data Analyst
• Approx 20 admin, clerical and reception staff members

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients
• Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing, contraception etc.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens
• Provide travel medicine services
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
• Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)

Other responsibilities within the organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service deliver and patient care.
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA).
• Drives the development of nursing services within the practice, liaising with external agencies and professional organisations are required
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

No canvassers or recruitment agencies, please.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse;
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Advanced Practice Qualification);
• Qualified Nurse Prescriber;
• Qualified Triage Nurse;

Desirable

• Minor Illness Qualification;
• Teaching Qualification;
• ALS, PALS;

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in a primary care environment;
• Experience in chronic disease management;
• Experience in prescribing and undertaking medication reviews;

Desirable

• Experience working as a practice nurse or community nurse

Clinical Knowledge

Essential

• Wound Care / Removal of sutures & staples
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• New patient medicals
• Chaperone procedure
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Travel medicine
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Asthma
• Spirometry
• CHD
• Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
• Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
• Understands the importance of evidence based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy

Desirable

• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena

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: Primary Care Management Solutions Ltd

Address: Law Medical Group Practice, Wrottesley Road, London, NW10 5UY, United Kingdom

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:
Recruiting Manager
Chad Johnson
[e-mail]

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.