Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an experienced healthcare worker, looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

Staithe Surgery is looking to recruit an advanced nurse practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to compliment our friendly, patient focused team in our rural practice based on the Norfolk Broads.

The role is for a minimum of 4 sessions a week (2 days a week).

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, they will 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

• Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• Be practising autonomously as an advanced nurse practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• Support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• Have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

Our total practice population is approximately 7,200 and we are proud to have achieved a rating of Good at our last CQC inspection with excellent feedback. We are a GP training and research practice and a consistent high QOF achiever.

We have:

• Two long established GP Partners.
• Three salaried GPs.
• Two nurse practitioners.
• A supportive clinical and administrative practice team.
• ARRS roles; pharmacy technician, physiotherapist, mental health nurse, EMDR therapist and mental health and wellbeing coach
• Social prescriber and integrated care coordinator
• Dispensing practice with a delivery service
• Research practice
• SystmOne clinical system
• HUB for Enhanced Access clinics
• Regular business, clinical and MDT meetings
• Excellent delivery and access of patient care
• Supportive of training and development for staff and partners
• Patient Participation Group
• Proactive PCN