Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Barrow in Furness

Duke Street Surgery are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and committed Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our successful and well-respected training practice, offering flexible sessions and competitive sessional rates of pay.

Main duties of the job:

• Face to face and telephone consultations.
• Reviewing and issuing repeat prescriptions and supporting the Prescribing Team with medicine queries.
• Prescribing in line with practice, local and national guidance.
• Collaborative working across multidisciplinary teams.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe and manage treatment plans.
• Coordinate with specialist and community teams.
• Promote screening and preventative care.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Participate in quality improvement projects and audits.

About us:

With a list size of over 11,500 patients, we are a large, high achieving practice with consistently excellent QOF results offering staff and patients a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team. We are based in south Cumbria just 30 minutes' drive from Lake Windermere. We are looking for an ANP to join our successful and well-respected training practice. We are a supportive and friendly team made up of 7 GPs, 2 ANPs, 4 Practice Nurses, 4 Health Care Assistants and a superb administration team. We are part of a strong, successful Primary Care Network and have strong links with community teams such as Health Visitors, Safeguarding Teams, Macmillan Nurses and Case Management. We can offer attractive terms and conditions, competitive pay and flexible working.

Job responsibilities:

Job Summary: The post holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health care needs within a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care are delivered to all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical Responsibilities: In accordance to the practice timetable, the post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including face to face consultations, telephone consultations, dealing with queries and general workflow administration.

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care professionals within the practice setting.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultations with patients in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Compiling and issuing computer generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate.

In general, the post holder will be expected to undertake all normal duties and responsibilities associated with an ANP working in primary care.

Person Specification:

• V300 qualification or equivalent.
• NMC registration.
• 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.