Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Sutton PCNs are looking to employ an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work with our GP Practices to identify patients who are at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and run our clinic to help monitor and improve their health. You will be working as part of the PCN multidisciplinary team, delivering care within your scope of practice to the entitled patient population., The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will work within their professional boundaries;

providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.

in an autonomous role

to provide in-person & telephone-based triage, assessments and consultations.

to demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice maintaining clinical excellence.

to work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures. In order to work at this level, NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met.

to develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of PCN Patient population

to promote education and training to other staff and students, acting as a training resource

The post holder will work strictly in accordance with PCN protocols, policies and guidelines after appropriate training and assessment of competences have been completed and satisfied. Flexible working will be required to meet the needs of the patients group and the service as it continues to develop.

You should be an enthusiastic and highly motivated ANP with GP Practice experience. The successful candidate will be using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base in line with the latest RCN guidance on ANP competencies. You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded.

Sutton has a population of approximately 200,000 residents registered to 22 practices across 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs); Carshalton, Cheam & South Sutton, Central Sutton and Wallington PCN; each serving a population of approximately 50,000 patients. PCNs form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system. (The Kings Fund, Primary Care Networks Explained, 1.7.19)

Our Sutton PCNs are forward-looking, friendly and focused on providing a wide range of excellent healthcare services to patients in Sutton and the surrounding area. Our PCNs between them are led 7 PCN Clinical Directors. The PCNs work together as they see the benefits of working together in a larger GP partnership and are delighted to be realising some of those benefits now. Because of our scale, not only are we more resilient and efficient but we are able to invest in continuous quality improvement, enhanced care, new services and training and developing our workforce. We value the diversity of our colleagues and actively champion an inclusive culture and are committed to helping our colleagues achieve a work/life balance.