Advanced Nurse Practictioner

Due to rapid, continued growth, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our practice in Donnington, Telford. This Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will involve working alongside a multidisciplinary team, including GPs, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Pharmacists to provide care and treatment to patients with either long-term conditions or undiagnosed undifferentiated diagnoses.

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 may be by face-to-face consultation, telephone, or video consultation.

We are a Total Triage practice and all appointment bookings are made through our online Accurx system.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner works autonomously and is accountable for own professional actions.

Undertakes Clinical Nursing Practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary health care services.

Assesses diagnoses and treats patients attending primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.

Assesses diagnoses and treats patients in surgery or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.

Directly admits patients to secondary care hospital in acute medical need.

Refers patients to other medical specialities for assessment if deemed appropriate.

Refers patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations including referral for x-ray.

Interprets a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures.

Makes critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job eg first contact with patients presenting acutely and manages care in the presence and absence of protocols.

Makes decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients to Hospital Consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.

Advise and supports others where standard protocols do not apply.

Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.

Works within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management.

Extended and supplementary prescriber.

• Have an active registration with the NMC.
• Practice within the four pillars.
• Be educated to Masters level.
• Be an independent prescriber.
• Meet NMC revalidation requirements.
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
• UK Registration.
• Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
• QOF Lead experience.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.