Job Description

Are you an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner looking to take the next step in your career within a welcoming, forward-thinking team? We would love you to join us!

Lea Vale Medical Group are seeking a dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our outstanding CQC-rated practice. In this role, you will work autonomously while being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

We are looking for someone to work part time with a minimum of 15 hours per week.

Interview Dates will be week beginning 18th of August and will take place for 1/2 a day.

Salary

Equivalent to Agenda for Change Band 7 or 8 - depending on experience

Main duties of the job

You will play a key role in delivering expert clinical care including, minor illness, chronic disease management and health promotion while making a real difference to the health of our community. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about primary care and committed to providing high-quality, patient-centred care.

About us

We are a CQC outstanding rated practice who believes in delivering high quality primary care services through effective teamwork and constant learning.

We are looking for clinicians who share the same teamworking ethics to join our team.

We learn from the past but are always looking to the future. This is true for when we look for new staff as well, your skills and experience will be what make you suitable for this role but we are more interested in your ideas for the future! How you want to develop yourself and how that will improve our practice and the service we offer to our patients.

As an employee of Lea Vale Medical Group, you will also enjoy the following benefits:

Comprehensive induction Support to guide your personal and professional development Excellent training opportunities

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

1 Clinical Care

Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes to promote health and well being. Liaise and network closely with other colleagues within the Practice and with other Primary Care professionals, referring patients as necessary. Ensure evidence based care is delivered at a high standard to patients providing expert clinical advice as appropriate. To participate in the audit process, evaluating the service, implementing action plans and change of practice as necessary. Provide advice and information to patients and carers on a complete range of health and social matters and refer to other external agencies if appropriate. Implement, in accordance with practice protocols, treatment interventions for patients with long term conditions. Plan, co-ordinate and carry out immunisations and vaccinations programmes in line with local or national policy. Participate in and carry out other aspects of health screening, ensuring that targets are met. Adhere to policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

2 Risk Management

Demonstrate clear understanding of risk including own professional accountability and responsibility, how to minimise risks in order to deliver safe and effective healthcare. Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards, and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines. Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.

3 Communication

Ensure effective communications with patients especially in providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there may be significant barriers. Communicate effectively with colleagues, both within the organisation and external agencies to ensure gold standard patient care. Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication

4 Delivering a quality service

To promote a culture of openness using Standards for Better health and the Lea Vale clinical governance framework Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, supervision, benchmarking and formal evaluation Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation Participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance Work within policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour and refer as appropriate

5 Management

Mentorship of junior colleagues Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice Accept delegation from other nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery. Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this and promote diversity and quality of opportunity

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Management of long term conditions Ability to work to challenging timescales and produce effective results Excellent communication skills, verbal and written Able to work in a team environment Articulate, with high levels of emotional intelligence Appreciate the need of culturally diverse and vulnerable patient groups Flexible and able to adapt to challenging circumstances Demonstrate high levels of self-awareness i.e. strengths and weaknesses, personal qualities and skills Understanding of issues and developments in Practice Nursing Advanced clinical practice skills Clinical examination skills Management of patients with complex needs Innovation and change management skills
Desirable

Further training in a chronic disease area Experience of using SystmOne or other clinical databases Identification of unmet health needs and programmes of health promotion and prevention of ill health

Experience

Essential

Experience in primary care Participation in research and audits and disseminating evidence-based practice Autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals Experience of clinical governance management Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries

Qualifications

Essential

Registered General Nurse
Desirable

MSc Advanced Practice or equivalent masters post registration study relevant to specialty
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.

We work with people to understand what being safe means to them as well as with our partners on the best way to achieve this. We concentrate on improving people's lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect. We make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Expected hours: No less than 15 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 27/07/2025
Reference ID: A0676-25-0015