Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Anp)

Swadlincote Surgery; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Swadlincote Surgery invites an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join on a permanent basis for 1 day per week, with a start date ideally November/December. The practice is a long-established teaching site with a patient list of around 14,000 and a supportive multidisciplinary team.

The ANP will work autonomously, diagnosing, managing, prescribing and discharging across all ages via face-to-face consultations, with opportunities to develop a specialist area of interest and contribute to ongoing

Qualifications

• Essential: Masters/Advanced Practice qualification and Independent Nurse Prescriber.
• Essential: Registered ANP at advanced level and minor illness qualification.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and commitment to lifelong learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• Manage patients with acute and chronic medical conditions with expert guidance.
• Identify and support patients at risk of long-term conditions and prevent adverse outcomes.
• Provide advanced nursing care in line with evidence and NICE guidelines.
• Refer appropriately and liaise with external services as needed.
• Support safeguarding and ensure safe practice within the team.

Skills

Chronic disease management

Interpersonal communication

Lifelong learning

Audit & governance

Education

Masters/Advanced Practice Qualification

Independent Nurse Prescriber

ANP registration at advanced level

Minor illness qualification

Job description

Job summary

Swadlincote Surgery have an exciting opportunity for a ANP to join the practice on a permanent position. The opportunity is for 1 day per week. Start date would ideally be November/ December. Swadlincote Surgery is a long established training practice with a list size of 14,000 patients. The ANP role benefits from the support of an experienced clinical and admin practice team. We are looking for a dynamic and motivated ANP to join us to support us in continuing to provide an excellent healthcare experience for all of our patients. If you have a specialist area of interest please also include this within your application.

Main duties of the job

The successful Advanced Nurse Practitioner will work as an autonomous practitioner, diagnosing, managing, prescribing and discharging patients with illness or injury across all age groups including young children. This will be by face-to-face consultations.

What we are looking for in an Advanced Nurse Practitioner:

• Hold an Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification
• Can show evidence of using autonomous physical examination and assessment skills in practice
• Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children

About us

The team you will be working with as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner;

• A fully staffed multi-disciplinary team including a full complement of Administration Staff
• The team are a progressive and collaborative group, ready to welcome on board any successful additions
• Teamwork and mutual support are integral to our working practices and the successful Advanced Nurse Practitioner must share this vision.

About us

Swadlincote Surgery is committed to providing a supportive environment for all of our staff, where staff are actively encouraged to develop and grow. The team benefit from an array of experienced clinicians, managers and GP partners who are open, supportive and make for a fantastic team environment.

We are active with the local PCN and are forward thinking in terms of developing new initiatives to offer enhanced services to our patients.

The practice is a teaching practice.

If you have a specialist interest we are keen to encourage development within this area in line with the demands associated with our practice demographic.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes
• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients health
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and NSF
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records
• Ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively
• Prioritise health issues and intervene where necessary
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Be an extended and supplementary prescriber
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc), complying with both local and regional guidance
• Liaise with the external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc)
• Delegate clinical responsibilities where appropriate (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services.
• Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree OR Postgraduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification
• Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber
• Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
• Minor illness qualification

Desirable

• Qualified triage nurse

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Swadlincote Surgery

Address: Swadlincote Surgery, Darklands Road, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0PP, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.swadlincotesurgery.co.uk/

Contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Practice Manager Leonie Bunn, [e-mail]

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: Depends on experience

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: A3433-26-0003

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