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Advanced Clinical Practitioner
The closing date is 12 October 2025
PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE APPLICATIONS EARLY.
Would you like to work on the edge of the beautiful Peak District National Park, yet within easy reach of the cultural hub of Manchester?
Glossop Primary Care Network (PCN) are looking to recruit a full time Advanced Nurse Practitioner with experience in primary care to join our team in providing a high quality service to our patients. Prescribing qualification desirable but not essential.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients with complex health needs, providing assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management plans, and ensuring continuity of care in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team.
This post supports the PCNs commitment to caring patients close to their homes, reducing hospital admissions, improving patient outcomes, and enhancing the overall patient experience within the community setting.
The role will consist of a community delivery of healthcare through acute home visits, and engaging proactively with population health as a part of the Team Up initiative.
Team Up Service Key Features
* Operates Monday to Friday from 8am to 6.30pm: Colleagues must be flexible to ensure cover during service open hours. This includes covering team absences as agreed by both parties.
* Integrated Care Model: Brings together professionals from health, social care, and community services including advanced clinical practitioners, district nurses, social workers, home carers, and GPs to form one cohesive team.
* Home-Based Support: Focuses on delivering care directly in patients homes, reducing the need for GP visits, emergency department attendances, and hospital admissions.
* Preventative & Proactive Care: Aims to keep vulnerable individuals safe and well at home, preventing crises and supporting hospital discharge.
About us
Glossop PCN consists of 4 practices in Glossop and Hadfield who have a very cohesive working relationship. We cover a population size of 33,500 patients. Our PCN values are to work collaboratively, nurture learning, and implement innovative ways of working and to deliver care with compassion. We would want the person joining our team to be able to identify with these values.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Assessment and Management: Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments of patients in their homes, utilising advanced clinical skills and evidence-based practice to diagnose and manage acute, chronic, and complex conditions.
Autonomous Decision-Making: Exercise professional judgement to initiate appropriate investigations, interpret results, and develop individualised care plans, including prescribing medications within scope of practice.
Care Coordination: Collaborate with GPs, community nursing teams, mental health professionals, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure seamless care and appropriate referrals.
Patient Education: Provide education, advice, and support to patients and their families or carers to promote self-management, independence, and wellbeing.
Emergency Response: Identify and respond to deteriorating patients, escalating care as appropriate, including arranging urgent hospital admissions when necessary.
Documentation: Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive clinical records in line with professional and organisational standards.
Quality Improvement: Participate in audit, service evaluation, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
Professional Development: Engage in continuing professional development, supervision, and peer review to maintain and advance clinical competence.
Key Relationships
General Practitioners (GPs) within the PCN
Community nursing and allied health professional teams
Urgent care hospitals
Social care and voluntary sector organisations
Patients, families, and carers
Urgent and emergency care services
Person Specification
Experience
* Significant post-registration experience in primary, community, or urgent care settings;
* experience managing complex patients
* Experience of home visit services or working within a PCN
Qualifications
* Registered healthcare professional (e.g., nurse, paramedic, physiotherapist) with MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
* Independent non-medical prescribing qualification
Skills & Knowledge
* Advanced clinical assessment, diagnostics, and decision-making skills; excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
* Quality improvement and audit experience
Other
* Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
* Understanding of local health and social care landscape
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.
Depending on experience, Pay scheme negotiable, depending on experience
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