Diss

Botesdale Health Centre

DOE

Nursing

10 May 2024

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About the Role

Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly team in Botesdale on a part-time basis, for 28.5 hours per week. We are also recruiting for a full time position (7428): Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Diss - Primary Care Careers (eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk)

The advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits. You will operate within your own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.

The advanced nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. You will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified advanced nurse practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications and registrations:

A relevant nursing degree.
Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
Post-graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification.
Qualified independent nurse prescriber.

You should have skills and experience in providing assessment, screening services and health education advice in (but not restricted to) the following areas:

Dietary advice
Blood pressure checks
Urinalysis
Health screening
Dressings
ECG
Phlebotomy
Routine injections
Contraception
Minor injuries
Routine immunisations and vaccinations
Removal of sutures / clips
Baby immunisations
First registration checks / health surveillance / general health advice
Assisting with minor procedures in the treatment room
Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.

Please see the attached job description for additional information.

About Us

We are a rural GMS 9900 patient surgery with 4 partners, 4 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.

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.

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