Job summary
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 masters 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.

Main duties of the job
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.

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.

Person Specification
Essential

• 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

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.