Advanced Nurse​/Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Nurse/Advanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting new opportunity hasarisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our friendly team at Barton House Medical Practice. 20 hoursper week, covering a Monday and Tuesday. If interested in the vacancy please call for an informal chat, keen to discuss with any interested candidates. Full explanation and review of the triage system can be offeredto give insight into this exciting role.

We are recruiting due to retirement of our current ANP and we have another excellent ANP who covers the other days (triage run by GPs on a Friday). We are looking at a potential start date of April/May 2026.

We have recently instigated a platformof total triage for all online consultations. The ANP/ACP will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and have the main responsibility of triaging all online requests. Thesystem is urgency coded and the ANP/ACP will triage the requests into an appointment slot and manage any suitable and urgent cases.

This improvesaccess for patients as they are allocated appointments based on clinicalneed.. All appointment requests come in via this system, whether urgent or routine and full training will begiven regarding the new triage system to the ANP/ACP.

It is a busy but enjoyable role and a fantastic team environment. The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice toprovide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues,ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner/or Advanced Clinical Practitioner willneed to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. The postholder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner/or Advanced Clinical Practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

We are a fun, happy, hardworking and resilientteam. We are well supported with strong relationships with the community PCN team including the ageing well visiting service, clinical pharmacists, social prescribers and support from local geriatricians, community ANPs and district nurses. Our clinical team consists ofsupportive GP's, ANP, Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants. With a strongmanagement team who are always on hand to help and advice, as well as a friendly nursing team, administration, reception and dispensary teams.

Listsize 5100 Dispensing practice Fully computerised (System One) Consistently high

QOF achievement

• Work aspart of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality care.
• Carries out clinical nursing practice at an advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements & knowledge to deliver appropriate and safecare.
• Deliveryof care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
• Triage andtreat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary healthcare teams as appropriate.
• Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and carers/relatives are involved.
• Prescribingand reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and withinthe scope of qualified practice.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, including drug and non-drug basedtreatment methods into a management plan.
• Requestdiagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed protocols e.g. x-ray,blood tests, scans, etc.
• Assess,diagnose and treat patients in practice premises who require medical attentionand/or refer to appropriate agency.
• Referspatients to other members of the multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other organisations as necessary.

• Communicatesconfidential and sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers in relation to their condition.
• Providehighly specialised care advice beyond the scope of normal Nursing practice e.g.care treatment plans, making referrals as appropriate (including fast trackreferrals).
• To monitor and meet care outcomes against standards and recommend or initiate changes as necessary.

• Management of health screening programmes and ensures other team members are aware ofhealth priorities and screening objectives and programmes.
• Innovationin practice to meet ongoing demands on the practices delivery of care.
• Improvehealth outcomes for patients by introducing new developments, and can demonstrate them as reports and presentations where appropriate.
• Supportspractitioners in reporting the practice population to promote…