Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Excel Primary Care; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

An NHS GP practice in Skelmersdale is looking for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to join their team. The role offers part-time hours with 4-8 sessions per week, focusing on diverse clinical duties such as consultations, developing care plans, and patient education. Candidates should have a relevant nursing degree and experience in a Primary Care setting.

Qualifications

• Registered with relevant professional body.
• Experience working in General Practice/Primary Care setting.
• Experience of On-call.

Responsibilities

• Undertake a variety of clinical duties including consultations.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors.
• Develop care plans and provide health education.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Relevant Nursing/health degree

Tools

Clinical IT systems (e.g., EMIS, Docman)

Job description

We are looking for an experienced ANP to join our friendly and supportive team at Excel Primary Care. We seek an enthusiastic, well-motivated, flexible individual with excellent clinical and communication skills who will play an active role in the services offered to our patients.

The advertised post is part time hours we are looking to offer between 4-8 sessions per week. As a practice we offer a late night clinic (6:30pm-8:30pm), flexibility on working hours would be desirable.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake a variety of duties, including surgeryconsultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork andcorrespondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions inrelation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from otherhealth care workers within the organisation
• Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developingcare plans for health in consultation with patients and in line withcurrent practice disease management protocols
• Providingcounselling and health education
• Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribingin accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Ingeneral, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normalduties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primarycare.
• Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

About us

We are an NHS GP Practices that is responsible for the care ofmore than 18,000 patients, serving the community in Skelmersdale and Upholland.We have 3 sites, 2 based in Skelmersdale and 1 in Upholland.

The doctors and staff at Excel Primary Care are proud to offerthe highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.

We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases suchas asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical servicesincluding antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinationsand NHS Health checks.

Our clinical team comprising of 4 GP Partners, locum GPs, 4 Salaried GPs plus a highly experienced nursing and HCA team. A First Contact Physio,Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, Practice Manager, Assistant PracticeManagers, and an experienced reception/administration staff which make up agreat team.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be an experienced practitioner whoworks within their professional boundaries to provide care for patients throughinitial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment andevaluation of care. The role of the ANP will be to support the Partnersand other clinicians and healthcare professionals within the practice todeliver a full range of primary care services to our patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with Professional body
• Relevant Nursing/health degree
• Experience working in General Practice/Primary Care setting

Experience

• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QoF)
• Working autonomously in an Advanced Practitioner role
• Experience with clinical IT systems eg EMIS and Docman
• Experience of On-call

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.