Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)NHS

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 usThe 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.

Job description

Clinical Responsibilities

The core responsibilities of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) are as follows. On occasion, there may be a requirement to carry out tasks not listed below, that are within the reasonable scope of the role.

• 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

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.