Advanced Clinical Practitioner​/Advanced Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for a health professional who enjoys being part of an innovative team, working in a fast-paced environment, where no two days are the same. Open to new ideas and thinking, with the patient at the forefront of our mission.

We are looking for an experienced Advanced Nurse/Care Practitionereducated to masters level in Advanced Health Assessment, holding a Prescribingqualification to work either part-time of full-time hours.

Working as part of our urgent care team, with professional support and guidance, you will work autonomously yetcollaboratively to provide advice, diagnosis and treatment both on the phoneand face to face in surgery or within the community to our registered practice population.

We welcome applicants who are generalists with primary care experience or specialist skills that are transferable to general practice such as paediatrics or an interest in dementia care.

Provide the choice of direct access to a ANP/ACP, both in the practice and over the telephone, and dependent on the individual, at home and in the community for the general practice population with an acute or chronic health problem

Provide a first point of contact within the practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills inhistory taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan

To prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined bycurrent legislative framework. Registered Independent Prescribing.

Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developingwhere appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.

Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion,health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.

Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Practice and with other service providers to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care

Assess acute and chronic illness in the surgery and in Nursing and Carehomes.

Hereford Medical Group is a large General Practice operating over 4 sites in and around Hereford City. Our main hub is a purpose built practice in the Centre of Hereford, close to the train station.

We are a people centered organisation, caring for a population of approximately 49,000 patients and employing approximately 180 permanent staff in addition to trainees.

We place great value on our staff and offer many employee benefits, such as:

• 25 to 30 days annual leave entitlement in addition to bank holidays, depending on service (pro rata for part-time staff).
• On-site Occupational Health Services and support.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 14.38% employer contribution.
• Specsavers eVoucher once per year
• Access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme.

Our mission is provide highly quality and compassionate primary care.

The post holder should be an experienced nurse or paramedic, educated to at least Masters Level in advancedhealth assessment and nonmedical prescribing who will act within their professional boundaries to provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation ofcare. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision making and expert care for patients within the surgery.

The Practitioner will have the ability and training to work autonomously yet collaboratively within the team toprovide clinical care and support colleagues within the team clinically and operationally.

The role includes additional duties remunerated dependent upon provision of evidence and indirectobservation of duties.

• Experience of working in an autonomous role relevant to primary care
• Experience of working in a multi-professional environment
• Experience of working under pressure
• Awareness of own accountability and other aspects of NMC code of conduct
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Works autonomously and collaboratively, recognising when referrals are required
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• IT skills computer and keyboard literate
• Good time management and the ability to work under pressure prioritising workload
• Relay clinical information and maintain accurate, comprehensive consultation records in line with NMC requirements
• A demonstrable…