Prescribing Practitioner

You will be required to work within our multi-disciplinary on call team providing specialist knowledge and advice on medical matters and treating urgent on the day cases. You will be required to carry out telephone calls and face to face clinics. You will also be required to offer advice and guidance to our growing team which includes Doctors, ANPs, Nurse practitioners, Pharmacists, dispensers, pharmacy technicians, Nurses, HCAs, reception, and admin team.,

• Experienced Prescribing Practitioner will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone or electronic consultations and home visits.
• The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers, and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence.
• The Prescribing Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients, accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
• The post holder will use skills, knowledge, and competencies as a qualified Practitioner to be responsible and accountable for managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging patients as appropriate.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary on call team to deliver safe and high-quality care.
• Carry out telephone calls and hold face to face consultations.
• To communicate about medical-related issues between the practice and other care provider.
• Triage and treat patients, performing specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as appropriate.
• Prescribing and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
  
  Experience working in General Practice.
• Excellent clinical, communication, and decision-making skills., Registered Nurse (RN) with NMC registration.
• Advanced Nurse Practitioner/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification (including prescribing rights).
  
  Probus Surgery is a well-established Primary Care business and are proud to offer the highest standard of patient healthcare. Probus is our main surgery and we do hold clinics at The Merlin Centre and Tregony. We currently have over 9000 patients.
At Probus, we have 4 GP Partners and a Business and Strategic Partner. 1 Senior Manager and a great practice team which consists of Salaried GP's, ANP, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, HCA's, Pharmacists, Dispensers, Receptionists and Admin.


• NHS pension
• Free onsite parking
• Uniform
• Company events
• Discount at Cornwall Medical Group
• starting A/L entitlement of 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Sick Pay
• Health Shield Cash Plan