Nurse Advisor

Health Care First Partnership

The closing date is 14 May 2025

Job summary

A great opportunity to drive clinical excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.

We are recruiting a Nurse Advisor to work with our Clinical Assessment Team to provide telephone assessments for patients requiring same day advice.

As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role providing and delivering prescribed programmes of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Job Responsibilities

Assess patient needs, prioritising calls where needed, providing advice or referring to a Clinician where appropriate.

Ensure contemporaneous record keeping, using SystmOne.

To communicate effectively and skilfully with the use of observational and active listening skills and dialogue to ensure that comprehensive patient histories are recorded.

To be accountable for autonomous clinical decision making whilst managing unpredictable workload.

To provide evidence-based healthcare advice, maximising opportunities for health education/health promotion.

To organise the prioritisation and flow of patients.

Highlighting and recording significant events, where needed.

Responsible for highlighting safeguarding risks, identified in the triage process and initiating adult and child protection policies in line with practice policy.

About us

Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.

HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.

We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.

The Practice has a current list size of 30,500 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).

Date posted

30 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

A1815-25-0009

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


8-10

High Street

Knottingley

West Yorkshire

WF11 8NQ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification which is available in within the Supporting Information section.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification which is available in within the Supporting Information section.

Person Specification

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Negotiation and conflict management skills
  • Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
  • Clinical assessment skills
  • Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
  • Local and national health policy
  • Wider health economy
  • Clinical governance issues in primary care
  • Self-directed practitioner
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexibility
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player

Desirable

  • Mental health experience
  • Management of minor illness
  • Long term conditions
  • Knowledge of primary, secondary and community care services

Experience

Essential

  • Telephone triage and remote assessment
  • Worked in a primary care environment or similar

Desirable

  • Compiling procedures and clinical guidelines
  • Leadership in quality initiatives, such as clinical benchmarking
  • Audit
  • Research

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN / NMC Registered

Desirable

  • Independent Nurse Prescriber
Person Specification

Skills and Qualities

Essential

  • Communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Negotiation and conflict management skills
  • Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
  • Clinical assessment skills
  • Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
  • Local and national health policy
  • Wider health economy
  • Clinical governance issues in primary care
  • Self-directed practitioner
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexibility
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player

Desirable

  • Mental health experience
  • Management of minor illness
  • Long term conditions
  • Knowledge of primary, secondary and community care services

Experience

Essential

  • Telephone triage and remote assessment
  • Worked in a primary care environment or similar

Desirable

  • Compiling procedures and clinical guidelines
  • Leadership in quality initiatives, such as clinical benchmarking
  • Audit
  • Research

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN / NMC Registered

Desirable

  • Independent Nurse Prescriber

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).

Additional information

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

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Health Care First Partnership

Address

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Head of People

Sarah Hiscoe

sarah.hiscoe@nhs.net

Date posted

30 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

A1815-25-0009

Job locations

Pinfold Surgery

Pinfold Lane

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS26 9AA


8-10

High Street

Knottingley

West Yorkshire

WF11 8NQ


Supporting documents

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