View Vacancy Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Harwood Group; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Harwood Group Practice is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for a part-time role (30 hours/week) operating between 08:00 and 18:30, Monday to Friday. You will split time between the practice and home visits for housebound patients, ensuring continuity of care in the community.

You will work within a MDT with GPs and allied professionals, maintaining high standards of prescribing and clinical decision-making to improve outcomes. Independent prescribing rights are required.

Qualifications

• Qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner with independent prescribing rights.
• Experience in both practice-based and community medicine.
• Strong triage, diagnostic, and prescribing skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and treat acute and chronic conditions.
• Lead home visits for housebound patients and provide continuity of care.
• Collaborate with MDT including GPs and allied health professionals.
• Prescribe safely within scope and local formularies.
• Order and interpret tests (bloods, imaging) and act promptly on results.
• Engage in health promotion and opportunistic screening.

Skills

Advanced nursing practice

Independent prescribing

Clinical assessment

Education

NMC registered nurse

Tools

EMIS

Job description

Harwood Group Practice is excited to invite an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly and forward-thinking team.

This is a part-time position (30 hours per week) operating between 08:00 18:30, Monday to Friday.

As a key member of our clinical team, your time will be split between providing high-quality care within the practice and conducting home visits for our more vulnerable patients in the community who are unable to attend the surgery.

Key Responsibilities

• Autonomous Care: Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Community Outreach: Provide essential clinical support through home visits, ensuring continuity of care for housebound patients.
• MDT Collaboration: Work closely as part of a diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), including GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals, to deliver integrated patient care.
• Clinical Excellence: Maintain high standards of prescribing and clinical decision-making to improve patient outcomes.

Candidate Requirement

The successful applicant must be a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner with independent prescribing rights and a passion for both practice-based and community medicine.

Main Duties of the Job

Main Duties and Daily Responsibilities

Assessing and treating “same-day” urgent conditions such as respiratory infections, abdominal pain, skin infections, and minor injuries.

Chronic Disease Management

Proactively managing long‑term conditions, adjusting medication regimes, and preventing hospital admissions.

Home Visits

• Leading the clinical response for housebound patients.

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities

• Autonomous Consultations: Conducting face‑to‑face, telephone, and video consultations to triage, assess, and diagnose patients.
• Physical Examinations: Performing comprehensive physical examinations.
• Independent Prescribing: Issuing prescriptions safely and effectively in accordance with your scope of practice and local formularies.
• Diagnostic Requests: Ordering and interpreting clinical tests, including bloods, X-rays, and ultrasounds, and acting promptly on the results.
• Referrals & Signposting: Making appropriate referrals to secondary care (hospitals) or specialist community services (e.g., District Nursing, Palliative Care).
• MDT Participation: Attending daily clinical “huddles” or MDT meetings to discuss complex cases, safeguarding concerns, and end‑of‑life care.
• Clinical Administration: Managing your own clinical workflow, including processing clinical letters, actioning lab results, and maintaining accurate, contemporaneous records via EMIS.
• Health Promotion: Providing opportunistic screening and health advice, ensuring patients are empowered to manage their own wellbeing.