View Vacancy Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Harwood Group Practice is excited to invite an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly and forward-thinking team.

This is a part-time position (30 hours per week) operating between 08 30, Monday to Friday.

As a key member of our clinical team, your time will be split between providing high-quality care within the practice and conducting home visits for our more vulnerable patients in the community who are unable to attend the surgery.

Key Responsibilities

• Autonomous Care: Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Community Outreach: Provide essential clinical support through home visits, ensuring continuity of care for housebound patients.
• MDT Collaboration: Work closely as part of a diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), including GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals, to deliver integrated patient care.
• Clinical Excellence: Maintain high standards of prescribing and clinical decision-making to improve patient outcomes.

Candidate Requirement

The successful applicant must be a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner with independent prescribing rights and a passion for both practice-based and community medicine.

Main Duties of the Job Main Duties and Daily Responsibilities

Assessing and treating "same-day" urgent conditions such as respiratory infections, abdominal pain, skin infections, and minor injuries.

Chronic Disease Management

Proactively managing long term conditions, adjusting medication regimes, and preventing hospital admissions.

Home Visits

• Leading the clinical response for housebound patients.

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities

• Autonomous Consultations: Conducting face to face, telephone, and video consultations to triage, assess, and diagnose patients.
• Physical Examinations: Performing comprehensive physical examinations.
• Independent Prescribing: Issuing prescriptions safely and effectively in accordance with your scope of practice and local formularies.
• Diagnostic Requests: Ordering and interpreting clinical tests, including bloods, X-rays, and ultrasounds, and acting promptly on the results.
• Referrals & Signposting: Making appropriate referrals to secondary care (hospitals) or specialist community services (e.g., District Nursing, Palliative Care).
• MDT Participation: Attending daily clinical "huddles" or MDT meetings to discuss complex cases, safeguarding concerns, and end of life care.
• Clinical Administration: Managing your own clinical workflow, including processing clinical letters, actioning lab results, and maintaining accurate, contemporaneous records via EMIS.
• Health Promotion: Providing opportunistic screening and health advice, ensuring patients are empowered to manage their own wellbeing.