Job Summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic ANP or ACP to join our growing multi-disciplinary primary care team. You will work within our clinical team to deliver high quality patient care.
This permanent position is offered on a full-time basis but part-time will also be considered. Protected learning time, CPD, and support from a dedicated GP supervisor will be provided to help you grow and enhance your skills within the role.
This opportunity offers an exceptional candidate the chance to develop their career within Primary Care working alongside a wide range of other healthcare professionals.
We welcome applications from both experienced and newly graduating ANPs/ACPs.
Main Duties of the Job
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
1. Delivering exceptional healthcare to patients, diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical conditions.
2. Collaborating within the multi-disciplinary team to ensure comprehensive, coordinated, and high quality patient care.
3. Participating in clinical meetings, case discussions, and continuous professional development activities.
4. Adhering to best practice guidelines, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements.
5. Contributing to quality improvement initiatives and promoting a culture of excellence.
6. Flexibility to provide a mix of telephone and face-to-face patient appointments.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.
About Us
Manor Practice provides primary care services to a patient population of 12,500 patients based across 2 sites within Wallington. The Practice is currently experiencing rapid growth and is undergoing a transition period having recently merged with another practice.
Manor Practice is a friendly, well-organised, and thriving practice that benefits from a growing patient list size. The GP partners are dedicated to providing the highest standard of care to their patients and are supported by an excellent team of salaried GPs, Practice Nurses, HCAs, PCN Pharmacists, receptionists, and administrators.
The Practice is an active member of the Wallington Primary Care Network and is rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission. We are a forward-thinking practice, who appreciates the need for work/life balance, clinical supervision, and support, and we also support flexible scheduling options.
Our local Training Hub ensures our staff have access to excellent training and development opportunities and portfolio working arrangements.
We are fully engaged with our local Primary Care Networks, including provision of localised services, and we host some of the Sutton borough extended access services at one of our sites.
Job Responsibilities
The ANP or ACP will work autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, by telephone consultation, and via home visits.
The postholder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers, and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence at all times.
The ANP or ACP will prioritise and triage the needs of patients and make any necessary referrals for advice, treatment, or investigations in the appropriate manner.
The postholder will use skills, knowledge, and competencies as a fully qualified ANP or ACP and non-medical prescriber in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads, referrals, admission to hospital if required, and discharge from care as needed.
In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will undertake a variety of duties, including:
1. Face-to-face consultations, telephone consultations, and answering queries.
2. Visiting patients at home in relation to acute and chronic presentations.
3. Participating in triage and reviewing incoming pathology results and clinical letters.
4. Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to the patient needs and in accordance with the latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols, and within the scope of qualified practice.
5. Dealing with paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
6. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
7. Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
8. Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
9. Providing counselling and health education and supporting health screening programmes.
10. Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
11. Collecting data for audit purposes.
12. Acting appropriately in relation to alerts, QOF, medicines management, local enhanced services, and other reminders during a consultation.
13. Undertaking special health care reviews such as SMI health checks, Learning Disability health checks, and cancer care reviews.
14. Responding to medical problems presented including history taking, examination, organising referral and for investigation and treatment elsewhere as appropriate.
15. Providing clear, confident explanations to patients about their clinical management plan and ensuring that the patient is aware and in agreement with this plan.
16. Justifying the choice of medication recommended and understanding the impact of co-morbidities and other medications, poly-pharmacy on agent choice and prognosis.
17. Adhering to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.
18. Ensuring that the use of EPS is maximised.
The role may also require:
1. Blood pressure checks
2. Urinalysis
3. Ear irrigation
4. Dressings
5. Contraception and fitting of IUDs
6. Routine and other adult and child immunisations and vaccinations
7. Removal of sutures/clips
8. Assisting with minor procedures
Please refer to the full job description/person specification provided.
Person Specification
Experience
* Advanced clinical practice skills
* Clinical examination skills
* Management of patients with common acute medical conditions
* Management of patients with long term conditions
* Experience of primary care
* Management of patients with complex needs and co-morbidities
Qualifications
* ANP:
* Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree
* Registered Nurse Licence (RN)
* Masters or doctoral degree in nursing with a focus on advanced practice (APRN) or nurse practitioner (NP)
* National NP board cert exam
* or
* ACP:
* Masters Advanced Practice (Clinical)
* Evidence of continued professional development (ANP or ACP)
* All mandatory training (ANP or ACP)
Desirable
* Independent prescriber licence
Other Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to use own initiative
* Work independently and as part of a MDT
* Up to date knowledge of NICE guidance and other national guidance
* Excellent time management skills
* Good communication skills
* Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own workload
* Adaptability to a fast pace and rapidly changing environment
* Good auditing skills
General
* Flexibility
* Organised
* Excellent personal presentation
* Good IT skills
* Commitment to equal opportunities
* Good team player
* Reliable and punctual
* DBS clear
Desirable
* Valid UK driving licence and own car to facilitate home visiting
* Experience of EMIS web
* Working knowledge of GMS/PMS contracts and QoF
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Manor Practice
Address:
57 Manor Road
Wallington
Surrey
SM6 0DE
Employer's Website: https://manorpractice.org.uk/
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