Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care Clinician

NHS Jobs; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide autonomous, high-quality clinical care in primary care settings. You will assess, diagnose, and treat patients, prescribe medications, and support health promotion with a focus on long-term patient relationships and evidence-based practice.

The role requires independent clinical decision-making, mentoring of junior staff, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Must meet NMC requirements for advanced practice (clinical practice, leadership, education, research).
• Autonomous decision-making in assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
• Ability to prescribe medications within own scope.
• Experience in primary care managing acute and chronic conditions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• Provide high-quality and advanced care for patients of all ages with a range of conditions (acute and chronic).
• Perform physical examinations, take medical histories, and order diagnostic tests.
• Develop and implement care plans, prescribe medications and manage ongoing care via face-to-face, video or telephone consultations.
• Make clinical decisions based on diagnostic results and adjust treatment plans as needed.
• Work with physicians, specialists and other healthcare professionals to provide patient-centred care.
• Provide clinical triage of patients to appropriate services and healthcare professionals.
• Educate patients and families about healthy lifestyle choices, disease prevention and self-management techniques.
• Mentor less experienced nurses and staff; support practice development and safeguarding.
• Contribute to practice targets and liaise with external services as required.

Education

Advanced nursing education with non-medical prescribing

Tools

SNOMED CT codes

Job description

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide autonomous, high-quality clinical care in primary care settings. You will assess, diagnose, and treat patients, prescribe medications, and support health promotion with a focus on long-term patient relationships and evidence-based practice.

The role requires independent clinical decision-making, mentoring of junior staff, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team