Job summary
The Pontypool Medical Centre is a well-establishedsurgery with approximately 18,500 patients located in Pontypool, currently havea fantastic opportunity for a Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join their close knitteams. You will work autonomously alongside our welcoming and supportiveNursing and Administration team.
An excellent opportunity to develop skills and broadenexperience within this proactive surgery.
Up to £2,500 joining bonus available! *terms and conditions apply
Main duties of the job
Are you a tenacious, organised and skilled Advanced Nurse Practitioner?Are you committed to delivering high-quality healthcare to patients? Do youwant to make a real difference in people's lives?
This Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will involve working alongside amultidisciplinary team, including GPs, Nurse Practitioners, ClinicalPharmacists and Nurses to provide care and treatment to patients with eitherlong term conditions or undiagnosed undifferentiated diagnoses.
The successful Advanced Nurse Practitioner will work as an autonomouspractitioner, diagnosing, managing, prescribing and discharging patients withillness or injury across all age groups including young children. This may beby face-to-face consultation, telephone or video consultation.
About us
We continue to prioritise patient care and be a greatemployer.
So we are looking for clinicians that want to bepart of that change and be instrumental in moving the surgery and servicesforward.
The successful post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a widerange of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standardsof care for all registered and temporary patients.
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holderwill make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, includingsurgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patientsat home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries,paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. An autonomous consultor
2. 10-minute consultations x 15 slots morning and 15 slots afternoon
3. Share of home visits.
4. Able to manage acute presentations
5. Able to manage chronic conditions
6. Able to order appropriate investigations (bloods/radiology).
7. Able to refer appropriately to secondary care or organise emergency admissions.
8. Share of admin: clinical letters which require actioning/filing.
9. Able to file pathology results
10. Able to see all age groups
11. No restrictions on prescribing.
12. Able to see pregnant women in regards non pregnancy related issues.
13. Able to deal with mental health presentations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
14. Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
15. Masters degree OR Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification OR RCN accreditation Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber
16. Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level Minor illness qualification