Job summary
Laindon Medical Group are looking to recruit a permanent advanced nurse practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team on a full-time basis.
The successful candidate will be an experienced healthcare professional, educated to masters level and have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients. The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.
Main duties of the job
- Provide care for our patients, from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.
- Act as an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending within primary care initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
- Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers, and colleagues to ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
- Develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods, and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of the PCN population.
About us
Laindon Medical Group is a long-established practice, serving a population of just over 18,000 patients. We have 5 partners and an excellent clinical mix of 5 salaried GPs, ANP and practices nurses, a team of allied health professionals, with a strong, organised administrative team, including a practice manager, operational manager and finance officer.
Our aims and objectives are to:
- Provide the best quality medical care to our patients.
- Ensure that patients have confidence in the service we provide.
- Be committed to our patients needs.
- Act with integrity and complete confidentiality.
- Be courteous, approachable, friendly and accommodating.
- Ensure safe and effective services and environment.
- Be innovative and forward thinking.
- Work collaboratively with outside agencies.
- Maintain our motivated and skilled work teams.
- Thoroughly monitor and audit, continue to improve our healthcare services.
- Maintain high quality of care through continuous learning and training.
- Guide our employees in accordance with diversity and equality.
- Ensure effective and robust information governance systems.
- Treat all patients and staff with dignity, respect and honesty.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not
hesitate to get in contact with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If
you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not
hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area
- Be able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Be forward-thinking and will strive to develop innovative ideas and new ways of working that address the health needs of the population, while motivating and encouraging others to do the same.
- Deliver a high standard of patient care, using advanced, autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth, theoretical knowledge base.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients conditions, initiating referrals as appropriate.
- Support members of the multidisciplinary team by providing leadership, education, and training to a range of staff.
- Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, who looks to embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
- Be consistently compassionate and respectful placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
- Demonstrate highly developed clinical skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a registered nurse, holding a current registration with the NMC.
- Hold a recognised ANP qualification at masters level.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification and prescribe safe, effective, and appropriate medication.
- Post-graduate qualification in specific speciality, or equivalent experience
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area
- Be able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Be forward-thinking and will strive to develop innovative ideas and new ways of working that address the health needs of the population, while motivating and encouraging others to do the same.
- Deliver a high standard of patient care, using advanced, autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth, theoretical knowledge base.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients conditions, initiating referrals as appropriate.
- Support members of the multidisciplinary team by providing leadership, education, and training to a range of staff.
- Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, who looks to embrace opportunities to work and liaise across multi-professional and agency boundaries in the interests of improving patient outcomes.
- Be consistently compassionate and respectful placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
- Demonstrate highly developed clinical skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a registered nurse, holding a current registration with the NMC.
- Hold a recognised ANP qualification at masters level.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification and prescribe safe, effective, and appropriate medication.
- Post-graduate qualification in specific speciality, or equivalent experience
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).
