Advanced Nurse Practitioner - GP Surgery

Location: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Employment: Full-time or Part-time
Salary: £54,000 - £56,000 per year

Job Summary

• Provide high-quality, patient-centred care in a dynamic, supportive environment.
• Key role in frontline healthcare services.
• Work within NMC professional boundaries for advanced practice.
• Requires flexibility, innovation, and ability to handle complex, urgent, and emergency situations.

Key Duties

• Patient-facing consultations (face-to-face and telephone).
• Triage, assessment, diagnosis, and management of minor illness, chronic, and complex conditions.
• Prescribing and medication administration.
• Administration, record-keeping, and clinical governance tasks.
• Contribute to service improvements, protocols, audits, and leadership initiatives.
• Support and mentor colleagues; work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Skills:

• Advanced clinical practice, triage, communication, conflict management, leadership, teaching, change management.

Personal Qualities:

• Self-directed, motivated, flexible, enthusiastic, team player.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years primary/community nursing.
• Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments, injuries.
• Leadership in audits, protocol development, and quality initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Registered first-level nurse.
• Relevant nursing/health degree or MA.
• Clinical supervision training.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Mentor/teaching qualification desirable.

Knowledge:

• Management of chronic and complex conditions, clinical examination skills, clinical governance, public health issues, local/national health policy.

Pre-employment Requirements

• Vaccinations: Hep B, MMR, Varicella (evidence required).
• Right to work in the UK.
• References (current/most recent employer required).
• Disclosure of employment gaps >6 weeks.

Benefits

• NHS pension.
• 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata).
• Employee discounts, assistance programs, well-being support.
• Career development, education pathways, flexible working.