Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Health and Community Care Services

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

The role:

You need to have a live NMC UK pin in order to be considered for this post.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to join our ANP team. This role forms an integral part of the wider multidisciplinary team, contributing to high-quality care for our registered patient population.

As a clinical leader, you will work across West Dunbartonshire with the autonomy and authority to assess, diagnose, treat, and prescribe for patients presenting with complex, multi-dimensional health needs. You will be expected to contribute to service delivery across all four pillars of advanced practice: clinical practice, leadership, education, and research. This post is ideally suited to a qualified primary care ANP or an individual who has completed the academic requirements and is working towards final sign-off.

We also welcome applications from secondary care ANPs and Specialist Nurses who are practising at an advanced level and hold a master’s level qualification.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) may be able to provide visa sponsorship for certain roles, subject to the post meeting the relevant eligibility criteria. Sponsorship is not guaranteed and will be determined on a case-by-case basis following interview and during the pre-employment verification process. Applicants must state their current right to work in their application.

Please see below for more details:

Skilled Worker visa and Health and Care Worker visa

Duration, Location, and Working Pattern:

• Location is based in West Dunbartonshire
• Fixed-term contract is for 2 years
• Full-time position (36 hours per week)
• Shift pattern for this role is 36 hours over 7 days

Key responsibilities:

• Take and record a patient’s history including medical, family and social history, talking to the patient, relatives or other carers as appropriate. There may be significant barrier to understanding and acceptance due to sensitive or contentious information given and received.
• Conducts a comprehensive clinical examination of the patient including a physical examination of all systems and a mental health assessment as appropriate.
• Screen patients for disease using clinical and other findings such as laboratory results or x-rays
• Make diagnostic decisions based on interpretation of clinical and other findings such as laboratory results or x-rays
• Applies high level decision-making and assessment skills to formulate appropriate differential diagnoses based on synthesis of clinical findings.
• Has the authority to request, where indicated, appropriate diagnostic tests / investigations using judgement and clinical reasoning, based on differential diagnoses
• Conduct invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures where appropriate
• Interprets and analyses previously ordered results of tests/investigations and works collaboratively with other healthcare professionals when needed.
• Acts on the results to confirm diagnosis and thereby optimise treatment and management outcomes.
• Formulates an action plan for the treatment of the patient, synthesising clinical information based on the patient’s presentation, history, clinical assessment and findings from relevant investigations, using appropriate evidence based practice.
• Prescribe treatment including medications as a Non-medical Prescriber based on a sound…