Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Fixed Term
This post provides an opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate with the right clinical skills to undertake the advertised position within a well‑run GP medical practice in Bristol.
The suitable candidate will provide medical services to patients presenting with urgent care needs, ensuring the highest standards of care. The role will also include health promotion, family planning, and sexual health. Ideally, the role holder should be able to prescribe.
We will offer an induction programme and a mentor for ongoing support. We are a dynamic and innovative team, always open to new ideas. We are patient‑focused and work together to achieve our values. It is possible in this role to develop close, long‑term relationships with patients and work in partnership with them to achieve optimum health.
Whilst you are expected to work independently during routine clinics, we are a supportive team and meet daily at coffee to discuss cases and ensure a team ethos is maintained.
We are recruiting for part‑time hours 1 2 days a week for a fixed term of 6 months starting in September/October 2026. If the opportunity arose to extend this position to a permanent position, we would explore this with the successful candidate. We are looking for an individual who shares our values and if you think this is you, we would welcome an application from you.
Main duties of the job
- Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, including history taking, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and referral where appropriate, whether or not that patient has already been triaged by the practice. Follow up such patients as necessary.
- Provide the above not only in 15‑minute face‑to‑face consultations but also undertake telephone consultations.
- Manage acute exacerbations of patients’ chronic diseases.
- Contribute to the development of and adhere to protocols and care plans for the management of chronic disease and common medical conditions.
- Provide appropriate preventative healthcare, counselling, education and advice.
- Prescribe and review, as necessary, in adherence to the practice’s prescribing formulary.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures and maintain the utmost confidentiality in relation to such records.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self‑care.
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
- Work in the context of a multidisciplinary team with a collaborative, supportive and holistic approach, including referral to, and liaison with hospital services or other agencies.
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
- A commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based best practice.
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
- Contributing to the development of computer‑based patient records.
- Contributing to summarising patient records and coding patient data.
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Recognised Nurse Practitioner qualification or relevant nursing/health degree
- Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
- Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level
- Evidence of CPD
- Qualified triage nurse
- ALS and PALS
- Extended/supplementary Nurse Prescriber status
Experience
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Experience of managing patients with complex needs
- Experienced in clinical examination skills, including listening to chests
- Experience in clinical governance issues in primary care, PGDs and associated policies
- Venepuncture skills
- Experience of working in a Primary Care environment
- Experience of both face‑to‑face and telephone triage
- Experience of family planning
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
