Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary
Harwood Group Practice is excited to invite an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our friendly and forward-thinking team.

The Role
This is a part-time position (30 hours per week) operating between 08:00 18:30, Monday to Friday.

As a key member of our clinical team, your time will be split between providing high-quality care within the practice and conducting home visits for our more vulnerable patients in the community who are unable to attend the surgery.

Key Responsibilities

• Autonomous Care: Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Community Outreach: Provide essential clinical support through home visits, ensuring continuity of care for housebound patients.
• MDT Collaboration: Work closely as part of a diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), including GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals, to deliver integrated patient care.
• Clinical Excellence: Maintain high standards of prescribing and clinical decision-making to improve patient outcomes.

Candidate Requirement: The successful applicant must be a qualified Advanced Nurse Practitioner with independent prescribing rights and a passion for both practice-based and community medicine.

Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Daily Responsibilities:

Assessing and treating "same-day" urgent conditions such as respiratory infections, abdominal pain, skin infections, and minor injuries.

Chronic Disease Management: Proactively managing long-term conditions, adjusting medication regimes, and preventing hospital admissions.

Home Visits: Leading the clinical response for housebound patients.

Daily Tasks and Responsibilities

• Autonomous Consultations: Conducting face-to-face, telephone, and video consultations to triage, assess, and diagnose patients.
• Physical Examinations: Performing comprehensive physical examinations.
• Independent Prescribing: Issuing prescriptions safely and effectively in accordance with your scope of practice and local formularies.
• Diagnostic Requests: Ordering and interpreting clinical tests, including bloods, X-rays, and ultrasounds, and acting promptly on the results.
• Referrals & Signposting: Making appropriate referrals to secondary care (hospitals) or specialist community services (e.g., District Nursing, Palliative Care).
• MDT Participation: Attending daily clinical "huddles" or MDT meetings to discuss complex cases, safeguarding concerns, and end-of-life care.
• Clinical Administration: Managing your own clinical workflow, including processing clinical letters, actioning lab results, and maintaining accurate, contemporaneous records via EMIS.
• Health Promotion: Providing opportunistic screening and health advice, ensuring patients are empowered to manage their own wellbeing.

About us
About Harwood Group Practice

Harwood Group Practice is a well-established, "Good" CQC-rated medical training practice with a long-standing reputation for providing high-quality, patient-centered care. We operate across two sites Harwood Medical Centre and Tonge Moor Health Centre.

Our Team & Culture
We pride ourselves on our friendly and cohesive atmosphere. You will be joining a large, forward-thinking MDT that includes:

• 6 GP Partners and Salaried GPs.
• A dedicated nursing team including existing Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCA's, MSK Practitioners, Pharmacists, and HIPS.
• Administrative and management team committed to supporting clinical staff.

We are active members of the Turton Primary Care Network (PCN) and are committed to the professional development of our staff, regularly hosting GP registrars and medical students.

Our Mission: To provide high-quality, professional, and accessible healthcare services that inspire confidence in our patients and support the wellbeing of our local community.

Job responsibilities
Job Description: Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

Job Title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Employer: Harwood Group Practice

Location: Harwood Medical Centre / Tonge Moor Health Centre, Bolton

Salary: (Dependent on experience)

Hours: 30 hours per week (Monday Friday, 08:00 18:30)

Mandatory Requirement
Independent Prescribing (V300) is an essential requirement for this role. To ensure the safety and efficiency of our autonomous clinical service, applicants who do not hold a valid Independent/Supplementary Prescribing qualification will not be considered for this position.

Job Summary
The post-holder is an experienced nurse who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.

The role is split between site-based clinics and a community-based home visiting service, ensuring that patients who are housebound or in residential care receive high-standard clinical intervention. As an independent prescriber, you will be responsible for the complete episode of care, from diagnosis to issuing necessary prescriptions.

Main Duties & Responsibilities
1. Clinical Practice & Prescribing

• Autonomous Consultations: Deliver face-to-face and telephone consultations for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Independent Prescribing: Issue prescriptions safely and effectively in accordance with your scope of practice, national legislation, and local formularies.
• Medication Review: Conduct complex medication reviews for patients with multiple comorbidities, particularly during home visits.
• Acute & Chronic Care: Manage a wide-ranging caseload including acute minor illnesses and complex long-term conditions (COPD, Diabetes, Frailty).
• Home Visiting: Lead the clinical response for housebound patients, providing acute assessments and proactive frailty reviews.

2. Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) & Leadership

• Collaborative Working: Work as an integral part of the Harwood MDT, participating in clinical meetings, safeguarding reviews, and GSF meetings.
• Referrals: Ensure timely and appropriate referrals to PCN specialists and secondary care.
• Support: Act as a clinical resource for the wider nursing team regarding prescribing queries and complex case management.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Attribute Essential (Must have) Registered Nurse (NMC) & Independent/Supplementary Prescriber (V300); MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.

Experience
Essential

• Experience working as an ANP in Primary Care; Proven track record of autonomous prescribing.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.