Advanced Nurse Practictioner

Job Summary

Due to rapid, continued growth, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our practice in Donnington, Telford. This role involves working alongside a multidisciplinary team, including GPs, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Pharmacists, to provide care and treatment to patients with long‑term conditions or undiagnosed undifferentiated diagnoses.

Job Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner, diagnosing, managing, prescribing, and discharging patients across all age groups, including young children, via face‑to‑face, telephone or video consultation.
• Provide clinical nursing practice at an advanced level, delivering holistic care to people accessing primary health care services.
• Assess diagnoses and treat patients with acute, non‑acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Assess and treat patients in surgery or their own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate agency.
• Admit patients directly to secondary care hospitals when acute medical need arises.
• Refer patients to other medical specialities or members of the multidisciplinary team, to secondary care or statutory and voluntary organisations, including referral for X‑ray.
• Interpret a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures.
• Make critical judgments, including first contact with acutely presenting patients, with or without existing protocols.
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist and refer directly to hospital consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
• Advise and support others where standard protocols do not apply.
• Operate within professional guidelines, codes of conduct and all relevant practice policies, including infection control, chaperoning and risk management.
• Serve as an extended and supplementary prescriber.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Practice within the four pillars.
• Educated to Masters level.
• Independent prescriber.
• Meet NMC revalidation requirements.
• Disclosure and Barring Service check completed.
• UK professional registration current.

Desirable Qualifications

• QOF Lead experience.