Advanced Nurse / Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner (ACP’s or ANP’s) looking to join a great team with opportunities to develop your scope of practice?
Would you be interested in a mixture or urgent care and GP practice work?
Are you looking for the job security of permanent hours each week?

Link to the advert – https://apply.practiceplusgroup.com/vacancies/5809/advanced-nurse–clinical-practitioner.html

About the job

Our Centre is open 7 days per week between 8am-8pm and we are searching for permanent ACP’s – either part-time or full-time. You will work as part of a team within the Brighton Station Health Centre. We need team members who are able to work with urgent care patients in our walk in centre as well as with our registered patients in our GP service. This role gives you a chance develop your experiences and work with a mixture of patient types and conditions in an outpatient environment.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner you will be utilising expert diagnostic and clinical skills to provide autonomous, unscheduled medical care and management of patients presenting with acute undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, complex health needs and /or long term conditions.

You will be required to work within clinical guidelines, policies, procedures and utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary. You must be a prescriber, within professional competence, ensuring that all duties in relation to medicines management meet required professional and Practice Plus Group standards.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

As an Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner you will be utilising expert diagnostic and clinical skills to provide autonomous, unscheduled medical care and management of patients presenting with acute undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, complex health needs and /or long term conditions.

You will be required to work within clinical guidelines, policies, procedures and utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary. You must be a prescriber, within professional competence, ensuring that all duties in relation to medicines management meet required professional and Practice Plus Group standards.

In addition to unregistered walk in patients, we have around 10,000 registered GP service patients consisting of a young and diverse demographic. The ideal candidate will be capable of working with both our registered and unregistered cohorts.

You will be accountable for your own practice in face to face, telephone or video encounters including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge or referral of patients, independent of medical intervention.

Requirements

What we’ll need from you

• Be an autonomous Nurse Practitioner with a patient assessment qualification and recent work experience within a primary/urgent care environment
• Hold an independent prescribing qualification
• Hold an NMC Pin
• Experience in diagnosis and management of short and long term conditions

About us

Our GP services

• We operate community general practices on behalf of the NHS, offering patients the full range of services they would expect from a local GP
• We work in partnership with the NHS to ensure that patients get quick and easy access to the care they need at the right time
• Our clinical workforce enables greater delivery of proactive care to our patients. It includes GPs, advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), prescribing pharmacists, and prescribing paramedics

Benefits package

• Competitive salary paying up to £58,000 per annum
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Regular clinical supervision and education events, including the opportunity to have a weekly case discussion with the medical lead
• Bi-monthly evening meals/clinical updates for the team, where we also invite external speakers
• Our bespoke learning management system to address your learning needs
• Discounted rates for national update/clinical topic refreshers
• Support from the wider team, should you need it
• Practice Plus Group benefits including online shopping discounts and vouchers, pension, free eye tests, cycle to work schemes and more