Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Ranworth Primary Care Network has an exciting opportunity for an advanced nurse practitioner to join their team on a part-time basis, for 17.5 hours per week, working at their Green Elms Health Centre. This autonomous practitioner will be responsible for the delivery of nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team and delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The advanced nurse practitioner will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as minor illness clinic, health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

Main duties of the job

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advise to patients.
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Provide clinical support to junior colleagues for the following: wound care advice, INR dosing, blood pressure monitoring and titration, contraception advice.
• Run minor illness clinics.
• Provide specialist clinics such as new contraception starter and 2 yearly contraception reviews.
• Complete patient specific directions for healthcare assistants and practice nurses for a range of injections.
• To complete medication authorisations for patients.
• Prescription signing.

About us

Ranworth Primary Care Network, is comprised of Caradoc Surgery, Ranworth Surgery in Clacton-on-Sea, Green Elms Health Centre in Jaywick and Kennedy Way Medical Centre in Holland on Sea. We have a diverse patient population, of around 32,000 and all practices work on SystmOne.