Job summary
We are looking for an experienced ANP to join our friendly and supportive team at Excel Primary Care. We seek an enthusiastic, well-motivated, flexible individual with excellent clinical and communication skills who will play an active role in the services offered to our patients.
The advertised post is part time hours we are looking to offer between 4-8 sessions per week. As a practice we offer a late night clinic (6:30pm-8:30pm), flexibility on working hours would be desirable.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake a variety of duties, including surgery
consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home,
checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and
correspondence in a timely fashion
-
Making professional, autonomous decisions in
relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other
health care workers within the organisation
- Screening
patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- Developing
care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with
current practice disease management protocols
- Providing
counselling and health education
- Recording
clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
- Compiling
and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding
hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
- Prescribing
in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)
whenever this is clinically appropriate
- In
general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal
duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary
care.
- Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.
prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
About us
We are an NHS GP Practices that is responsible for the care of
more than 18,000 patients, serving the community in Skelmersdale and Upholland.
We have 3 sites, 2 based in Skelmersdale and 1 in Upholland.
The doctors and staff at Excel Primary Care are proud to offer
the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.
We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such
as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services
including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations
and NHS Health checks.
Our clinical team comprising of 4 GP Partners, locum GPs, 4
ANP's plus a highly experienced nursing and HCA team. A First Contact Physio,
Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, Practice Manager, Assistant Practice
Managers, and an experienced reception/administration staff which make up a
great team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be an experienced practitioner who
works within their professional boundaries to provide care for patients through
initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and
evaluation of care. The role of the of the ANP will be to support the Partners
and other clinicians and healthcare professionals within the practice to
deliver a full range of primary care services to our patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with Professional body
- Relevant Nursing/health degree
- Experience working in General Practice/Primary Care setting
Desirable
- Mentor/Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcome Framework (QoF)
- Working autonomously in an Advanced Practitioner role
Desirable
- Experience with clinical IT systems eg EMIS and Docman
- Experience of On-call
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. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Excel Primary Care
Address
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
DIGMOOR
SKELMERSDALE
LANCASHIRE
WN8 9BW