Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Rolle Medical Partnership; West Down; Sur place; GBP 48 000 - 58 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Rolle Medical Partnership in East Devon seeks an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to deliver autonomous, high-quality clinical assessment, diagnosis, and management across a wide range of conditions within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

You will help develop services, contribute to clinical improvement, and participate in education and development of colleagues while upholding patient safety and evidence-based care.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical assessment and examination skills.
• Ability to take a comprehensive clinical history.
• Ability to assess, diagnose and manage a broad range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Ability to formulate differential diagnoses and management plans.
• Ability to prescribe safely and effectively within scope.
• Ability to request and interpret investigations appropriately.
• Ability to recognise red flags and deteriorations.
• Ability to make appropriate referrals to primary, community and secondary care.
• Work autonomously while recognising limits and when senior advice is required.
• Strong evidence-based practice and clinical governance understanding.
• Excellent clinical record keeping.
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and children.
• Understanding of infection prevention and control.
• Commitment to patient safety and high-quality, person-centred care.

Responsabilités

• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessment of patients.
• Assess, diagnose and manage a wide range of acute and chronic presentations.
• Provide autonomous clinical decision-making within your scope of practice.
• Develop and implement treatment and management plans.
• Prescribe safely and appropriately within your professional scope.
• Refer patients appropriately to secondary care and other services.
• Recognise and manage deteriorating or acutely unwell patients.
• Provide safety-netting and appropriate follow-up.
• Work collaboratively with GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Support continuity and high-quality patient-centred care.
• Contribute to clinical audits and quality improvement.
• Participate in MDT meetings and clinical governance activities.
• Support and contribute to education and development of colleagues.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous clinical records.
• Work within practice policies and governance frameworks.

Connaissances

Advanced clinical assessment skills

Comprehensive history taking

Diagnose and manage acute/chronic

Prescribing within competence

Investigations interpretation

Recognise red flags

Appropriate referrals

Autonomous practice

Evidence-based practice understanding

Clinical record keeping

Safeguarding knowledge

Infection prevention understanding

Patient safety commitment

Formation

Master’s level in Advanced Clinical Practice

Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification

NMC registration

Description du poste

Job summary

Are you an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner looking for a practice where you can develop your skills, enjoy your work and become part of a genuinely supportive team?

Rolle Medical Partnership is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to join our established and expanding multidisciplinary team.

We are a 26,000-patient GMS training practice across four surgery sites in beautiful East Devon, with an experienced team of GPs and a diverse multidisciplinary workforce including Advanced Health Practitioners, ANPs, Nurse Prescribers, Paramedics, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Nursing Associates and GPAs.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a practice that values clinical excellence, collaboration, innovation and professional development

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will work as an autonomous practitioner providing high-quality clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting with a wide range of undifferentiated and acute conditions.

You will work as part of our multidisciplinary team and will have the opportunity to develop your clinical interests and contribute to service development.

Please see full job description in the supporting information section.

About us

Why Join Rolle Medical Partnership?

What makes us different is our people. We are a large, stable and experienced team that values collaboration, supports one another through the challenges of modern general practice and celebrates our successes together.

We believe that excellent patient care starts with looking after our staff, promoting wellbeing and fostering a culture of kindness, respect and collaboration.

Strong multidisciplinary working

Our experienced multidisciplinary team helps ensure that patients are seen by the right clinician at the right time. You will work alongside GPs, ANPs, Advanced Health Practitioners, Paramedics, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Nursing Associates and our wider practice team. We value the contribution of every member of our clinical workforce and encourage clinicians to work to the full extent of their skills and professional capabilities.

Innovation with purpose

We embrace new ways of working where they improve outcomes for patients and make working lives better for staff.

We are continually looking for opportunities to innovate, improve and develop our services. As an ANP, you will have the opportunity to contribute to service development, clinical improvement and the future direction of primary care within the practice.

Opportunities to develop

We are a training practice and learning and development are embedded within our culture. We actively support specialist interests, leadership development, teaching, service development and innovation.

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessment of patients.
• Assess, diagnose and manage a wide range of acute and chronic presentations.
• Provide autonomous clinical decision-making within your scope of practice.
• Develop and implement appropriate treatment and management plans.
• Prescribe safely and appropriately within your professional scope.
• Refer patients appropriately to secondary care and other services.
• Recognise and manage deteriorating or acutely unwell patients.
• Provide appropriate safety-netting and follow-up.
• Work collaboratively with GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Support continuity and high-quality patient‑centred care.
• Contribute to clinical audits and quality improvement.
• Participate in clinical meetings and MDT working.
• Support and contribute to the education and development of colleagues where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and high-quality clinical records.
• Work within professional standards, practice policies and clinical governance frameworks.

See full job description for further details.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Advanced clinical assessment and examination skills
• Ability to take a comprehensive clinical history
• Ability to assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with a broad range of acute and chronic conditions
• Ability to formulate differential diagnoses and appropriate management plans
• Ability to prescribe safely and effectively within professional competence
• Ability to request and interpret investigations appropriately
• Ability to recognise red flags, deterioration and clinical emergencies and take appropriate action
• Ability to make appropriate referrals to primary, community and secondary care services
• Ability to work autonomously while recognising professional limitations and when senior clinical advice is required
• Strong understanding of evidence‑based practice and clinical governance
• Excellent clinical record keeping
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and children
• Understanding of infection prevention and control
• Commitment to patient safety and high‑quality, person‑centred care

Desirable

• Chronic disease management skills
• Women's health experience
• Minor illness/minor injury experience
• Health promotion and disease prevention skills
• Knowledge of local referral pathways and services

Experience

Essential

• Significant post‑registration clinical experience
• Experience working autonomously at an advanced level
• Experience assessing patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions
• Experience diagnosing and managing acute and chronic conditions
• Experience developing and implementing evidence‑based treatment and management plans
• Experience requesting and interpreting appropriate investigations
• Experience of medicines management and independent prescribing within scope of competence
• Experience working effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of managing clinical risk and recognising when escalation or referral is required

Desirable

• Previous experience in general practice or primary care
• Experience of telephone triage
• Experience managing long‑term conditions
• Experience supervising, mentoring or developing other clinicians
• Experience of clinical audit or quality improvement

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Educated to Master’s level in Advanced Clinical Practice, or equivalent recognised advanced practice qualification
• Independent Non‑Medical Prescribing qualification
• Advanced clinical assessment, history taking and physical examination qualification/competence
• Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development and NMC revalidation

Desirable

• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
• Teaching, mentoring or clinical supervision qualification
• Additional qualifications relevant to primary care or long‑term condition management

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.

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