Description
Health Alliance PCN is looking for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) or Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Extended Access Hub, based at Belmont Health Centre in Harrow.
The service runs outside core GP hours and is mostly a minor illness clinic, with 15-minute appointments. You'll assess, diagnose, treat and manage a wide range of undifferentiated presentations autonomously, within your professional scope of practice, as part of the wider PCN team.
Service hours: Monday to Friday 16:00 to 20:00, Saturday 09:00 to 14:00 Working pattern: This is a regular, fixed-slot role. You'll be offered a set day or days each week (maximum of three shifts per week) and are expected to cover them consistently.
Main duties of the job:
- Assess, diagnose and treat patients aged 2 years and over presenting with minor illness and other undifferentiated, acute conditions, in 15-minute appointments.
- Review and manage patients with long-term conditions, as clinically appropriate within the Extended Access service.
- Work autonomously within your professional scope of practice, using sound clinical reasoning to manage risk and make safe decisions.
- Prescribe as an independent prescriber, in line with local formularies, national guidance and safe prescribing standards.
- Request and interpret investigations where clinically appropriate, and act on the results.
- Safety-net appropriately, and escalate or refer on to the right urgent, emergency or onward care when needed.
- Keep accurate, timely and contemporaneous clinical records on the practice clinical system (EMIS).
- Follow PCN and practice policies, including safeguarding, infection control, information governance and clinical governance.
- Work as part of the wider PCN team, communicating well with colleagues across the Extended Access Hub and member practices.
- Take part in audit, learning and service improvement where appropriate, and keep your own professional development and revalidation up to date.
Benefits:
- Competitive locum hourly rate, dependent on experience and clinical scope.
Person Specification:
- Significant post-registration experience, including recent experience in primary care, urgent care, out-of-hours or an equivalent setting.
- Experience of independently assessing, diagnosing and managing undifferentiated patients, including minor illness.
- Experience of assessing and managing children aged 2 years and over.
- Experience of prescribing independently in a clinical setting.
- Experience of managing risk, recognising the acutely unwell patient, and escalating appropriately.
- Experience of working autonomously within your scope of practice.
- Experience of using an electronic clinical record system (EMIS, SystmOne or similar).
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.