Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Castleton Health Centre are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our supportive and friendly team., The post holder will be an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner holding the ACP Masters or similar qualification, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the practice and our care homes. You will be working as part of the clinical team in the practice., Assess, triage and provide treatment to patients or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.

Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision-making with the presenting person.

Provide a choice of direct access to a nurse practitioner, both in Practice and over the telephone.

Home visits.

Instigate necessary diagnostic tests/ investigations and interpret findings/reports.

Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication whenever this is clinically appropriate.

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.

Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an ongoing plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.

Promote health and well-being through the use of health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.

Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate.

Contribute to the practice achieving its targets such as QOF and IIF to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery.

Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services.

Our clinical team is made up of GP Partners, salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Practice Nurses, Nursing Associate, Health Care Assistants and a wide variety of Primary Care Network ARRS roles.

Castleton Health Centre are based within a few miles of the M62 and have 10,200 patients on their list.

We are part of the Canalside Primary Care Network sitting within the Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale footprint.