Advanced Nurse / Clinical Practitioner

Practice Plus Group

The closing date is 30 April 2025

Job summary

What if you could improve the way you deliver urgent care to your patients and at the same time improve your career prospects? When you join the multidisciplinary team in our Out Of Hours service as self-employed or bank. As the largest independent provider of NHS services, Practice Plus Group is delivering a new model of Integrated Urgent Care that reduces pressures on services and staff. By bringing together NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment and other urgent care services, we enable patients to access the right care, when they need it. Its better for everyone. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious and committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner who can independently prescribe. Its a chance to simplify and speed up the way patients receive care by assessing them, planning their care, administering treatment and discharging or referring them to other healthcare professionals or external agencies, via primary care centres and home visits. You will also be using our electronic prescribing system. Based in our various Out Of Hours (OOH) services, youll be working autonomously within your sphere of competency as part of a friendly and close-knit multi-skilled team that includes GPs, registered nurses, UCPs, mental health and dental nurses, prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy advisors. 

Main duties of the job

  • Facilitate clear patient pathways through primary, community, secondary and tertiary care.
  • Take a person centred approach to service delivery, based on clear understanding and experience of the modes for service delivery.
  • Be responsible and accountable for assessing health and / or social needs of patients within the PCC setting, using agreed clinical protocols and clinical guidelines software.
  • Be able to incorporate the nurses role in health education within the unscheduled care environment.
  • Maintain and develop clinical competence and knowledge of care delivery within PCC setting using both formal and informal training methods.
  • To work closely with the medical practitioners in the provision of quality, evidence-based care to patients within the PCC setting or in patients own home

About us

  • RGN.
  • Degree level / Postgraduate level ANP qualification
  • Recognised Nurse Prescribing Qualification 
  • Experience of working independently within Nurse Practitioner / Specialist role
  • Experience of patient contact services and / or primary care nursing
  • Recent experience of face-to-face patient care
  • Evidence of recent study (PREP)

or

  • Postgraduate, e.g. ENB 998 / Teaching /Mentorship  course 
  • ILS/BLS
  • Eager to teach both formally and informally
  • Five years recent experience in acute / primary care nursing

Date posted

13 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£47.94 an hour Variable, dependent on shift

Contract

Locum

Duration

12 years

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

11007

Job locations

Colchester Primary Care Centre

Turner Road

Colchester

Essex

CO4 5JR


Job description

Job responsibilities

What if you could improve the way you deliver urgent care to your patients and at the same time improve your career prospects? When you join the multidisciplinary team in our Out Of Hours service as self-employed or bank. As the largest independent provider of NHS services, Practice Plus Group is delivering a new model of Integrated Urgent Care that reduces pressures on services and staff. By bringing together NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment and other urgent care services, we enable patients to access the right care, when they need it. Its better for everyone. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious and committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner who can independently prescribe. Its a chance to simplify and speed up the way patients receive care by assessing them, planning their care, administering treatment and discharging or referring them to other healthcare professionals or external agencies, via primary care centres and home visits. You will also be using our electronic prescribing system. Based in our various Out Of Hours (OOH) services, youll be working autonomously within your sphere of competency as part of a friendly and close-knit multi-skilled team that includes GPs, registered nurses, UCPs, mental health and dental nurses, prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy advisors. 

Job description

Job responsibilities

What if you could improve the way you deliver urgent care to your patients and at the same time improve your career prospects? When you join the multidisciplinary team in our Out Of Hours service as self-employed or bank. As the largest independent provider of NHS services, Practice Plus Group is delivering a new model of Integrated Urgent Care that reduces pressures on services and staff. By bringing together NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment and other urgent care services, we enable patients to access the right care, when they need it. Its better for everyone. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious and committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner who can independently prescribe. Its a chance to simplify and speed up the way patients receive care by assessing them, planning their care, administering treatment and discharging or referring them to other healthcare professionals or external agencies, via primary care centres and home visits. You will also be using our electronic prescribing system. Based in our various Out Of Hours (OOH) services, youll be working autonomously within your sphere of competency as part of a friendly and close-knit multi-skilled team that includes GPs, registered nurses, UCPs, mental health and dental nurses, prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy advisors. 

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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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Practice Plus Group

Address

Colchester Primary Care Centre

Turner Road

Colchester

Essex

CO4 5JR


Employer's website

https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Practice Plus Group

Address

Colchester Primary Care Centre

Turner Road

Colchester

Essex

CO4 5JR


Employer's website

https://practiceplusgroup.com/our-jobs/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruiter - IUC

George Robinson

george.robinson@practiceplusgroup.com

Date posted

13 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£47.94 an hour Variable, dependent on shift

Contract

Locum

Duration

12 years

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

11007

Job locations

Colchester Primary Care Centre

Turner Road

Colchester

Essex

CO4 5JR


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