Advanced Nurse Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Advance Nurse Practitioner at Forest Health Care for 6-8 sessions.

We are looking for someone who is dynamic, motivated and a flexible team player to join our Practice.

You will be a registered nurse, paramedic, or other allied health professional, with a non-medical prescribing qualification in the context of a broad scope of practice., Our Clinical Practitioners provide care through the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge or referral of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed injury/illness, or acute exacerbation of existing conditions. You will assist in the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of patient care across the whole system of health and social care, working in partnership with all relevant stakeholders.

The key elements of the role include but are not limited to:

• Working as an autonomous practitioner providing clinical assessment, diagnosis (where possible), and treatment (where appropriate) for adult and paediatric patients invited to attend Primary Care Centres or during remote consultations.


• Accurately triaging & prioritising all patients, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event / illness including past medical and drug history.


• Undertaking home visits to patients who are unable to travel to a primary care centre.


• Referring patients to alternative care settings, where appropriate.


• Supporting with triage of calls that have come via the NHS111 pathway during the core daytime surgery opening hours.


• To work as part of the clinical team of GPs, Primary Care Pharmacists, Specialist Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and other associated roles.


Please note that the support of a senior clinician is always available.

Our 3 partner practice has a patient population of over 11500+ patients and a staff of 3 further salaried GPs, 3 ANPs and a full complement of nurses, HCAs, dispensers, receptionists and admin staff all working alongside a growing number of additional PCN roles.