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Band 6 Trainee/Band 7 ANP
Are you innovative, enthusiastic, motivated and committed to providing high quality care and treatment?
Are you looking for the next challenge in your professional development? If so, we have an opportunity to join our Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Team.
This ANP role will support the General Practitioners to deliver safe, effective and person-centred care to patients in a primary care setting.
The successful applicant will work in West Linton Medical Practice, or attend to patients in their own homes. There is also a commitment to the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice, allowing for the development of skills in education, mentoring, audit, leadership, and quality improvement.
Applicants will therefore be required to either;
• Be working in an Advanced Practice role and have undertaken MSC (level 11) Advance Practice studies to PG Dip level or equivalent . This includes clinical assessment, decision making and non medical prescribing modules; or
• Be an experienced nurse, working at Nurse Practitioner level, educated to degree level, and willing to complete your MSC (level 11) Advance Practice studies to PG Dip level. You will therefore start on the Band 6 payscale and on the successful completion of the course you will be placed on Point 1 of the Band 7 payscale.
You should have excellent communication skills, work autonomously utilising your own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making.
For further information please contact Sharon Dempsey on 07748 111 590 for further information or an informal discussion.
Please note: the salary quoted is for full-time hours (37 hrs per week). For appointments to part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rata.
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early