Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The post holder will be an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner who will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures whilst demonstrating safe, clinical decision making. In order to work at this level, NMC requirements for advanced practice must be met.,

• To deliver a high standard of patient care as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in general practice, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base
• To manage a clinical caseload, dealing with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting
• To develop the nursing services offered by the practice
• Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework
• To manage own clinical workload in general practice responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.
  
  As the biggest provider of GP services in the North West, we are proud to have 40+ surgeries all rated by the CQC as either Outstanding or Good.
SSP Health cares for over 155,000 patients. We pioneered federated practice almost 20 years ago, allowing us to innovate to both improve patient care and enhance the wellbeing of our GPs. We have won many awards over the years, and recently won Clinical Improvement for Chronic Conditions GP Practice Award and were finalists at the HSJ Awards. We have an excellent network of support available from our practices with opportunities for development available to those who are interested in progression.