Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Frimley; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join NHS as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Frimley. This permanent, part-time position involves supporting patient care in a GP practice, requiring skills in clinical decision-making and collaboration with health teams. Candidates must have prior experience, prescribing qualifications, and be committed to delivering high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Requires experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with prescribing skills.
• Must have a relevant health-related degree and advanced clinical practice qualification.
• Skills in managing urgent care and chronic conditions are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care from initial assessment to management plans.
• Work autonomously managing appointments for urgent care needs.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to support patient health.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice skills

Management of patients with long-term conditions

Clinical examination skills

Strong clinical leadership

Highly effective communication skills

Education

First level professional registration with appropriate body (e.g., HCPC, NMC)

Relevant health-related degree

Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent

Job description

Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Thisrole is an exciting opportunity for an experienced advanced clinicalpractitioner (ACP) with existing prescribing skills to join our Primary CareNetwork (PCN). This is a part time position offered on a permanent contract, providing support to a single GP practice.

As an experienced prescriber, you will work within your professional boundaries and serve as a the first point of contact for Patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems. You will utilise your skills in history taking, physical examination, problem solving and clinical decision-making to establish a diagnosis and create a management plan. Collaboration with the multi-disciplinary practice team is essential to meet the needs of our patients.

Main duties of the job

You will support core general practice capacity and work as part of a positive, proactive and collaborative primary care clinical team supporting residents in Surrey Heath. You will be experienced in general practice and be able to work autonomously, managing a caseload of booked appointments for on-the-day and urgent care needs, with minimal indirect supervision from the onsite GP. You will need to be skilled in providing urgent care and minor illness management and providing support to patients with long term conditions.

You will be able to expertly manage an identified caseload or cohort(s) of patients and presenting complaints; providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care, demonstrating safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care evidence-based care.

About us

Weare Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GPpractices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 97,000 patients acrossSurrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff acrossour clinical and corporate support teams.Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary Care Network in Surrey Heath.

Asa GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our memberpractices and to champion primary care by working with local general practiceand system partners, in the provision of community based healthcareservices. We are dedicated to providingsafe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary careservices in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to qualityservice delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everythingwe do, and we prideourselves in ensuring our patients feelsafe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they maybe feeling vulnerable.

Our vision isto provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to leadhealthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Maths and English GCSE's (C and above) or equivalent
• First level professional registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, GPhC). Relevant health-related degree. Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent level of practice evidenced through a recognised credentialing process. Mentor/teaching qualification. Extended/independent prescribing qualification.
• Community or Primary Care specialist qualification.
• Care of the elderly specialist qualification.
• Additional qualification in management of a specific long term condition.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Knowledge

• Accountability of own role and other roles.
• Local and national health policy. Wider health economy. Clinical governance issues in primary care. Patient group directions and associated policy.
• Able to identify determinants of health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.
• Knowledge of public health issues in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.

Skills

• Advanced clinical practice skills, management of patients with long-term conditions, urgent and on-the-day needs.
• Management of patients with complex needs.
• Ability to manage patients at the point of presentation.
• Clinical examination skills.
• Strong clinical leadership.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Negotiation, resource and conflict management.
• Change management / Service improvement.
• Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.
• Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
• Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation.

Experience

• Recent primary or community experience.
• Healthcare-led management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries
• Healthcare-led triage.
• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Clinical Leadership.
• Audit and Research.
• Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Qualification.
• Project management.
• Working with community development initiatives.
• Health-needs assessment.
• Experience as a supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.

Other

• Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
• Flexibility.
• Team player.
• Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions.
• Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
• Commitment to CPD/Revalidation.
• Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

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.