Advanced Nurse Practitioner

You will provide autonomous clinical assessment,

diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of patients presenting with a broad

range of acute and long-term conditions. Working closely with our GPs and wider

multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, effective and holistic patient

care. The role offers the opportunity to work alongside our experienced GPs to

develop and expand the breadth of your clinical skills and knowledge. This will be achieved by daily professional discussion

with the GP, managing ones own blood results (training and support given)

re-booking follow up appointments with yourself to promote continuity of care. You

will be mentored to have confidence in taking on a varied caseload beyond the

management of acute same day minor illnesses.

Works autonomously and accountable for own

professional actions.

Undertake Clinical Nursing Practice at an

advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic

care to people accessing primary health care services.

Assess, diagnose and treat patients attending

primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic

medical conditions.

Assess, diagnose and treat patients in surgery

or own home who require acute medical attention and refer to appropriate

agency.

Admit patients to secondary care hospital in

acute medical need.

Refer patients to other medical specialities for

assessment if deemed appropriate.

Refer patients as appropriate to other members

of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and

voluntary organisations including referral for x-ray.

Interpret a range of diagnostic tests and

routine clinical procedures.

Makes decisions where precedents do not exist,

where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients

to Hospital Consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.

Advise and support others where standard

protocols do not apply.

Work within professional guidelines and codes of

conduct.

Work within all relevant practice policies and

procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management.

Extended and supplementary prescriber within

scope of expertise

Initiate and participate in the maintenance of

quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its

activities.

Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating

the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where

required.

Follow up own test results (training provided)

Record health data correctly to meet QOF and enhanced

service specifications

Support and participate in shared learning and

clinical meetings across the practice

Monitor and respond to safety alerts

Hodnet Medical

Centre is a rural dispensing practice with a list size of 4200. Situated in the historic village of Hodnet,

North Shropshire, 15 miles north of Shrewsbury.

With good transport links to Birmingham and Manchester.

We have

traditional values. Being a small

practice with a stable patient population we get to know our patients, often

many generations of the same family. We

operate from a modern building extended from an original grade two listed

building which adds to the character and charm of our Practice.

Ranked Good by

CQC with well above average results of the 2026 GP patient survey, voted good

overall by 96% of patients

About you