Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Advanced Nurse Practitioner who will bring their own skills and attributes and complement, strengthen and help shape our existing clinical team of 3 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs and an ANP.

If you are an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner with heaps of determination and a thirst for exciting new challenges, then this is the ideal position for you. As an integral part of our clinical team, youll apply your nursing expertise and previous experience in providing patients with top level of care

Main duties of the job

You will be working in a GP surgery catering for 8,650+ patients, working with GPs, the role will be based across two sites, Mattishall, and our branch surgery at Lenwade. focusing on the oversight of presenting patients, and patients living in care homes and their own homes in the surgerys catchment area.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the GPs with the management of the presenting patient, children and young people, adults, frail and elderly patients, and house bound patients, including first contact interventions

About us

Mattishall & Lenwade Surgeries, located in Mattishall, Norfolk, serves over 8,650+ patients, providing primary care from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6:30pm. Extended access is available Thursday evenings until 8pm, and on a rotational basis on Fridays and Saturdays across the Mid-Norfolk Primary Care Network. Our branch in Lenwade, 7 miles north, operates Monday (8:30am 6pm), and Tuesday, Thursday,(8:30am 12pm) and Friday (08:30 - 5pm) .

Covering 100 square miles of rural mid-Norfolk, we serve 19 villages, with most patients in privately owned homes and minimal social deprivation. We care for an average number of elderly patients, including those in three residential care homes.

Our practice combines traditional care with innovation, adapting to primary care demands. We are high QOF achievers, a learning site for GP trainees, teach Year 1 medical students from UEA, engage in research, and offer a range of additional services. We are paper-light, fully computerised, using SystmOne.

Our dedicated team includes 3 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, an ANP, managers for business, personnel, finance, and IT, practice nurses (including a nurse prescriber), pharmacists, dispensers, and administrative staff. We maintain strong ties with local consultants at The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Spire Norwich Hospital, 11 miles away.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Advanced Nurse Practitioner Job Description. This can be found in the attached document section of this advert

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters or equivalent qualification that includes the following four pillars: Clinical practice, Leadership and management, Education and research and a demonstration of core capabilities and specific clinical competence.
• BSc (Hons) Nurse Practitioner (Primary Health Care).
• Independent / Extended Nurse Prescribing Qualification
• 1st Level NMC Registration

Desirable

• Clinical Mentorship / Supervision qualification (ENB 998 or completion of mentorship programme)

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Time management and ability to priorities workload
• Ability to work well as a team player
• High expectation of excellence in clinical practice
• Able to establish and maintain effective communication pathways within the organisation
• Good insight into own limitations and clear realistic expectations of others
• Approachable and flexible
• Self-motivation and adaptability

Experience

Essential

• Can demonstrate competency in autonomous practice
• Demonstrates ability in teaching, research, and audit.
• Evidence of completed clinical audit
• IT Literate
• Up to date knowledge of national and local policies, including national service framework and relevant NICE guidance
• Ability to work effectively in a team and independently
• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely

Desirable

• Minimum of 2 years past experience in General Practice or Community setting at Band 6 or equivalent
• Experience of setting customer care and patient participation as a priority

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 (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Mattishall & Lenwade Surgeries

Address

15 Dereham Road

Mattishall

Dereham

Norfolk

NR20 3QA

Employer's website

https://www.mattishallsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)