Advanced Nurse Practitioner
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £60,000.00 to £65,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £60000.00 - £65000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Reading, RG31 5PR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5727-24-0002 |
Summary
Duties: The ANP successful for this role would be required to run a minor illness clinic to support GPs in this practice. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner(ANP) has been assessed as competent in practice using their expert clinical knowledge and skills. They have the freedom and authority to act and make autonomous decisions in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients. The ANP provides an opportunity for patients to avoid the need to be referred to a GP, thereby enabling them to receive timely care and negate unnecessary delay in receiving treatment. ANPs in primary care can develop close, long-term relationships with their patients and work in partnership with them to achieve optimum health. They are autonomous in making decisions based on assessment, diagnosis and interpretation of test results. They can independently prescribe appropriate medication, evaluate or refer to other specialists if necessary. Duties include, but are not limited to: Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients health Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler, etc.) Provide specialist clinics such as ear syringing, contraception, etc. Undertake the collection of pathological specimens Provide travel medicine services