Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS; New Milton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic clinical team as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner within the Coastal Medical Partnership, based at New Milton Health Centre. You will be responsible for diagnosing and treating minor illnesses, performing triage, and providing healthcare education, contributing to the delivery of high-quality patient care across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Experience in Primary Care.
• Experience managing minor illnesses and ailments.
• Experience in telephone triage.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness.
• Triage and treat patients, making necessary referrals.
• Provide health education advice and conduct screenings.

Skills

Primary Care

Nurse-led management

Telephone triage

Education

NMC Registration

BSc Hons or equivalent

Job description

Coastal Medical Partnership is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our busy clinical team. The successful candidate will be an independent prescriber, with experience of undertaking home visits, clinical triage and providing Same Day Care.

Main duties of the job

This role includes attending to patients who wish to beseen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presentingwith minor illness; seeing and advising people in respect of their continuingmedical and nursing needs. Working alongside the Drs and/or Urgent Care Team toprovide same day telephone triage, face-to-face consultations or home visits. Theremay a requirement to see extra or emergency patients as appropriate. The ANP will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patientsaccordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in theappropriate manner.

You will work in our Same Day Hub based at New Milton Health Centre, and may undertake booked clinics at any of our four sites.

About us

Coastal Medical Partnership is based across four sites in New Milton, Barton and Lymington, with 33,500 registered patients. We are an innovative and forward-thinking partnership, committed to providing high quality care and fulfilling the role of a Modern General Practice.

We have 20 GP Partners, leading a clinical team of GPs, ANPs, Pharmacists, MSK Practitioners, Advanced Frailty Occupational Therapists, Practice Nurses and many other roles.

As a single Primary Care Network we have embraced the opportunities this has afforded us, building robust and efficient teams, and winning Highly Commended for the Primary Care Innovation of the Year at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024.

Job responsibilities

Job summary:

Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness; seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. Working alongside the Drs and/or Urgent Care Team to provide same day telephone triage, face-to-face consultations or home visits. There may a requirement to see extra or emergency patients as appropriate. The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.

Job responsibilities:

Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness

• Triage and treat patients wishing to see a health care professional, making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team
• Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations.
• Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

Providing assessment, screening treatment services and health education advice:

• Dietary advice
• Urinalysis
• Health screening
• Dressings
• ECG
• Contraception
• Removal of sutures / clips
• First registration checks / health surveillance / general health advice
• Contribute to the provision of nursing services for the practice to include the delegation of duties to other members of the practice nurse team as appropriate
• Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs

Administration and professional responsibilities

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
• Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes
• Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date, with accurate details recorded and amended
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit
• Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of practice policies and protocols for all nursing activity

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience in Nurse-led management of minor illnesses and ailments
• Experience in telephone triage

Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• BScHons or equivalent

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.