Advanced Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to joinour supportive and experienced team.

As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will work across Copeland as part ofa diverse team of clinicians to provide access for patients – increasing the capacity to meet the demand for appointments. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will see and treat acute patients and support the management of ongoing and chronic conditions.

• Making professionally autonomous decisions
• Managing patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Providing comprehensive healthcare sensitive to patients needs, including assessment, diagnosing, prescribing, and referrals where appropriate
• Conducting physical assessments to diagnose patients conditions and provide appropriate self‑care advice, prescribing treatment, or referral using evidence‑based guidelines
• Directly participating in the provision of continuing care, health maintenance, screening and health promotion as part of a patient‑centred multidisciplinary team
• Managing and participating in chronic disease management
• Supporting and developing work towards agreed GMS targets
• Any other duties as may be required by the practice to provide quality health care to patients

• Ensuring accurate performance data is recorded
• Maintaining patient records accurately and in accordance with agreed data security and management policies and regulations
• Recording and acting on significant events
• Sharing and/or escalating complaints and significant events where appropriate
• Providing liaison with other service providers to ensure effective care is delivered
• Maintaining clinical knowledge and skills and identifying training needs
• Complying with any regulatory, professional or registration requirements relevant to the role

• Developing and maintaining effective professional relationships with other members of the clinical, administrative and management teams of NCPC
• Demonstrating the NCPC values of Kindness, Respect, Collaboration and Ambition

North Cumbria Primary Care Alliance (NCPC) is a primary care organisation doing things differently. We are able, through our not‑for‑profit alliance model to offer salaried GP partner roles across North Cumbria, focusing on the boroughs of Carlisle, Workington and Copeland.

This Advanced Nurse Practitioner role provides support to the surgeries within the Copeland area including Beech House Surgery, but is not limited to this location. For more information about NCPC and the Copeland area, please visit the supporting links for this advert.

• Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner

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.