ANP / ACP / Paramedic

• Acute and Same-Day Clinics: Independently assess, diagnose and treat patients presenting with acute illness and urgent clinical needs.
• Home Visiting: Assess and manage housebound patients, providing appropriate treatment, follow-up and ongoing care.
• Clinical Triage: Assess urgent requests, including same-day home visits, and determine appropriate clinical management.
• Care Home Rounds: Deliver regular care home rounds, working alongside the supervising GP and wider clinical team.
• Clinical Assessment: Undertake comprehensive assessments, request investigations and develop treatment plans.
• Independent Prescribing: Prescribe safely within clinical competence, following NICE guidance, local pathways and practice policies.
• Care Planning: Support patients with frailty, complex needs and long-term conditions through personalised care planning.
• Multidisciplinary Working: Collaborate with GPs, ANPs, Paramedics and community services to ensure coordinated care.
• Clinical Governance: Maintain accurate records, provide safety-netting and escalate concerns appropriately.

• Deliver same-day appointments through face-to-face, telephone and video consultations.
• Undertake clinical triage and direct patients to appropriate services.
• Perform clinical examinations, request and interpret investigations and develop treatment plans.
• Prescribe medications safely within professional competence and current clinical guidance.
• Provide home visits to housebound patients, including urgent same-day assessments.
• Undertake regular care home rounds with support from the supervising GP.
• Manage patients with frailty, complex needs and long-term conditions.
• Develop and review personalised care plans.
• Provide wound care, contraception advice and other specialist services where appropriate.
• Recognise and manage clinical emergencies, mental health concerns and safeguarding risks.
• Refer patients to secondary care and community services where required.

• Deliver health promotion, lifestyle advice and patient education.
• Identify patients at risk of developing long-term conditions.
• Support immunisation programmes and screening initiatives where appropriate.
• Contribute to QOF targets and other practice clinical priorities.

• Follow NICE guidance, local pathways and practice policies.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, ANPs, Paramedics and other healthcare professionals.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, clinical audits and quality improvement.
• Support and mentor less experienced clinical colleagues where appropriate.
• Maintain professional registration, competencies and continuing professional development.
• Recognise professional limitations and escalate clinical concerns appropriately.
• Contribute to service development and support the practice's values and objectives.

Essential

• Professional Registration
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or First Contact Practitioner (FCP) qualification / accreditation