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 provide the 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 and will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary practice team to meet the patients' needs.
The post-holder will:
- demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
- support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure 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.
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 under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.
Qualification 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
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.
