Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in Cheadle

Heald Green Health Centre is looking for an experienced and dynamic Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to join our friendly, supportive, and forward-thinking primary care team. This is an exciting opportunity to work autonomously within a high-quality general practice environment, providing expert clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, and long-term condition management. We are committed to providing safe, accessible, patient-centred care, delivering a full range of primary care services, supporting innovation, and maintaining a strong multidisciplinary team culture.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of undifferentiated, acute, urgent, and chronic presentations.
• Undertake acute illness and disease management, including prescribing and medication reviews within scope of practice.
• Offer same-day care and support urgent on-the-day demand as part of the duty/on-call team.
• Provide first-contact care for minor illness, injury, and undifferentiated conditions.
• Request, interpret, and action investigations as appropriate.
• Support proactive management of long-term conditions, chronic disease reviews, and preventative healthcare.
• Deliver face-to-face, telephone, and electronic consultations depending on practice needs.
• Liaise with other health and social care professionals and make appropriate referrals.
• Participate in public health and screening programmes including immunisations and vaccinations.
• Contribute to clinical governance, service development, quality improvement, and care pathway development.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and specialist clinical advice to colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.

About us

• Friendly, welcoming and supportive teams of GPs, nurses, HCAs and admin staff.
• Teaching and training environments with opportunities for professional development.
• Fully computerised systems with EMIS Web and Docman.
• High QOF achievement, strong governance and excellent patient feedback.
• PCN collaboration with shared staff such as physiotherapists, social prescribers and pharmacists.
• Supportive culture with continuity of care models, care navigation and efficient workflow systems.

Job responsibilities

• Act autonomously within professional boundaries to assess, examine, diagnose, treat, and evaluate patients.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning and critical thinking to support safe decision-making.
• Provide expert management of acute and chronic conditions, using both drug and non-drug treatment options.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments including physical and psychological evaluation.
• Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage patients at risk of long-term health conditions.
• Prescribe and review medication safely and effectively in line with national/local guidelines.
• Manage urgent or emergency situations promptly and appropriately.
• Prioritise patient problems, triage effectively, and intervene as needed.
• Support patients with health promotion, preventative advice, lifestyle change, and self-management.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing to policy, protocols, audits, and service improvement.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous clinical records using electronic systems and SNOMED coding.
• Provide clinical advice, support colleagues, and mentor junior staff.
• Contribute to safeguarding, mental health recognition, and appropriate referral for vulnerable patients.
• Communicate sensitively and effectively with patients, carers, and staff, adapting communication styles as necessary.
• Uphold equality, safeguarding, confidentiality, and professional standards at all times.

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse (NMC).
• MSc or Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice (or equivalent experience).
• Evidence of ongoing CPD.
• Advanced clinical assessment/decision-making training.
• Expertise or interest in specific long-term conditions (e.g., asthma, COPD, frailty, diabetes).

Experience

• Proven ability to assess and manage acutely unwell and chronically ill patients in primary care.
• Experience working in general practice and within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in triage, prescribing, and autonomous clinical decision-making.
• Experience with chronic disease management and medication reviews.
• Excellent clinical, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Minimum 2 years post-qualification as an ANP or equivalent role.
• Supervising students or junior clinicians.
• Experience with EMIS Web.
• Learning disability reviews, dementia reviews, COIL fitting/removal.
• Background in primary care nursing.

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.