Vacancy for Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner
(up to full-time but with the possibility of flexible working)

Due to retirement, an enthusiastic and motivated Nurse Practitioner is sought for this friendly, successful and well organised practice. We are a training practice for both registrars and medical students.

We are looking for a forward thinking, hard working and flexible NP to share our commitment to delivering high quality services to our patients. You will have highly developed clinical skills to provide care to patients with undiagnosed undifferentiated problems.

Responsibilities include treatment of acute and chronic medical problems and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. A full job specification is available.

The position is to start from April 2012.

We are an innovative PMS practice with:

• 5 partners and 3 part-time salaried GPs
• 2 Nurse Practitioners
• a list size of around 14,000
• excellent nursing and admin support
• 3 registrars and a medical student
• a paper light EMIS Web system

Late Evening Surgery

 From 7th December our late night surgery will be held on a Wednesday evening.
 

Health Visiting Team
 
 The Team are back in the area and have had a change of contact number. 
 They can now be contacted on 01530 468507 for an appointment with the
 Health Visitor or 01530 468525 for any other concerns.

Swadlincote Walk-in Centre

 The Swadlincote Walk-in Centre is open Monday-Friday from 6.30pm to 10pm
 and is closer for most of our patients than the Loughborough Walk-in Centre.

 It is also open on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9am to 10.30am;the
 same hours apply to Bank Holidays too.

 The service is led by Nurse Practitioners, although GP's are always available to
 be consulted by them if necessary. They can deal with a whole range of minor
 illness and minor injuries including children's problems.

 Examples of the sort of conditions which can be treated there includes cuts,
 bruises, minor burns and scolds, minor head injuries and medical conditions of
 the type normally dealt with by your GP.  Emergency contraception is also
 available.

 Most patients are dealt with by the staff there and do not need to be referred
 on.  No appointment is necessary and you don't need to telephone ahead as it
 is a Walk-in Centre.

 The Walk-in Centre is located at Swadlincote Health Centre, Civic Way,
 Swadlincote, DE11 0AE which is on the A514 into Swadlincote, opposite the bus
 station and just a stone's throw away from Sainsbury's supermarket.

Car parking is free.

Opening Hours

The Health Centre is open at 7.30am every day, Monday to Friday.  This means that the telephone lines are open at 7.30am as well as the building.  Web bookable appointments for the same day will also be available from 7.30am. 

At least two doctors regularly begin their surgeries at 7.30am with the other doctors varying their starts between 8am and 8.30am.

In addition, on a Wednesday* evening there is a late surgery from 6pm until 8pm. This surgery will be pre-bookable in advance.  It is NOT a walk in surgery. *this day is subject to change

Changes to the Appointment system

At Ashby Health Centre we have always tried to make sure that anyone who needs an appointment can get one on the day they need it.  However we realise that there are many occasions when patients do not need to see the doctor urgently and so would like to book an appointment to fit in with other commitments. Therefore we have made some changes to the appointments system with immediate effect. 

When patients ring to make an appointment you will now be asked if you wish to book ahead or if you need an appointment today.  If you choose to book ahead you will be able to book with the doctor of your choice (subject to availability) at any time Tuesday to Friday. However this means that on any particular day, a certain number of appointments will have been pre-booked, and so when you want an appointment for the same day you may not be able to specify your choice of doctor. But as we do now, we will always make sure that if you feel your condition is urgent for today you will be seen on the day. 

If you want a book ahead appointment you can ring at any time of the day and so hopefully this will alleviate some of the problems of the busy phone lines first thing in the morning.

We hope that this will be an improvement for our patients and your comments on the changes are welcome.