Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; Rushcliffe; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Market Cross Surgery is seeking an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work within the clinical team alongside GPs and nursing staff. The role focuses on autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment across acute and chronic conditions, including independent prescribing and disease management, immunisations and travel medicine.

The post requires a Masters in advanced practice or equivalent and independent nurse prescriber status, with experience in primary care and a range of clinics.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Masters degree in advanced clinical practice or a related high-level qualification.
• Independent Nurse Prescriber status is required or essential.
• Experience in primary care and chronic disease management is essential.
• Proven ability to lead wound care, immunisations, and travel clinics.
• Competence in pathology requests, testing, and result interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with acute and chronic medical conditions, providing specialist advice.
• Assess, diagnose and treat patients with independent prescribing responsibilities.
• Lead chronic disease clinics and implement personalized treatment plans.
• Provide wound care and vaccines including contraception and travel clinics.
• Collect pathology samples, order tests and interpret results.
• Identify and support patients at risk of long-term conditions and promote wellbeing.
• Deliver immunisations across routine, childhood and travel programmes.
• Recognise and refer patients with mental health needs to appropriate services.
• Maintain accurate records using SNOMED CT; support safeguarding.
• Support clinical emergencies and delegate tasks within scope.

Skills

Autonomous clinical practice

Clinical assessment

Prescribing capabilities

Wound care

ECGs

Venepuncture

Spirometry

New patient medicals

Pathology test requests & results

Education

Masters degree in advanced clinical practice

Independent Nurse Prescriber qualification

Tools

SystmOne

SNOMED CT coding

Job description

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner works in the clinical team at Market Cross Surgery, a dispensing practice, alongside the GPs and nursing team. The post centres on autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment across acute and chronic conditions, including independent prescribing. Work also covers chronic disease clinics, wound care, immunisations, travel medicine and pathology, with referrals to specialists where needed. Fit depends on a masters or post-graduate qualification in advanced practice and independent nurse prescriber status.

What the job involves

• Manage patients with acute and chronic medical conditions, giving specialist advice
• Assess, diagnose and treat patients, prescribing as an extended and supplementary prescriber
• Run chronic disease clinics and implement individual treatment plans, maintaining chronic disease registers
• Provide wound care and specialist clinics, including contraception, well woman, well man and travel clinics
• Collect pathology specimens, request tests, and process and interpret results
• Identify and support patients at risk of long-term conditions and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes
• Deliver routine, childhood and travel immunisation and vaccination programmes
• Recognise, assess and refer patients with mental health needs, and refer to secondary or specialist care
• Maintain accurate clinical records and use SNOMED CT codes effectively
• Support safeguarding work and liaise with external services for vulnerable patients
• Support the team in clinical emergencies and delegate clinical tasks within scope of practice
• Contribute to practice targets such as QOF, and support patients with medicines and substance misuse referrals

What’s required

Qualifications

• Masters degree in advanced clinical practice, or post-graduate diploma or degree in advanced practice
• Independent Nurse Prescriber qualification

Experience

• Working within primary care
• Chronic disease management, including diabetes, asthma and COPD
• Women's health, including cytology and contraception
• Immunisations, including routine, childhood and travel
• Travel medicine
• Infection prevention and control measures

Skills & knowledge

• Wound care, including removal of sutures and staples
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• Spirometry
• New patient medicals
• Requesting pathology tests and processing results

Other

• Understanding of PGDs and associated policies

Nice to have

• Experience in a GP practice
• Experience with SystmOne
• Experience leading a nursing team
• Experience managing elderly and housebound patients
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in Office and Outlook
• Following clinical policy and procedure
• Effective time management