At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a multi-disciplinary team to transform patient care and provide expert clinical support.
- Company: Friendly GP practice in Colchester with a focus on work-life balance.
- Benefits: Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional development.
- Other info: Supportive environment with a commitment to innovative healthcare delivery.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare while expanding your skills and expertise.
- Qualifications: Must be a registered nurse with advanced practice qualifications and experience in general practice.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 60000 £ per year.
About the Role
Ambrose Avenue is looking to recruit an advanced nurse practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries. This position is offered on a full time, permanent basis. The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to master’s level, you will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow you to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.
This post is for an experienced nurse prescriber acting within their professional boundaries, who will provide a first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, using skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making to establish a diagnosis management plan. You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary practice team to meet the patients' needs.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- Practise autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care.
- Support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, ensuring 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 the Candidate
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. 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 undertaking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.
Qualifications and Experience
- Registered nurse
- Qualified nurse prescriber
- Qualified triage nurse
- Minor illness qualification
- Postgraduate Diploma (Advanced Practice qualification)
- Experience working in a General Practice
- Experience working within a nursing team
- Experience in dealing with vulnerable patients
- Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their clinical practice
- Experience in nurse-led triage
- Experience in prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to perform in stressful and complex situations
- Sound clinical reasoning and decision making
- Flexibility
- Ability to inspire and lead a team
About Us
We are a friendly and welcoming GP practice, with 14,000 patients across two sites (Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate), located in Colchester. Our ethos is to achieve an outstanding work-life balance, while offering our patients the best possible service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Advanced Clinical Practitioner / Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Colchester employer: West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group
West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group is an excellent employer, offering a supportive and friendly work environment at Blyth's Meadow Surgery in Braintree. Employees benefit from flexible working hours, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to make a meaningful impact in the healthcare sector while being part of a dedicated team that values communication and collaboration.
Contact Details:
West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group Recruitment Team
