PCN Home Visiting Prescribing Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

PLEASE NOTE WEST LEEDS PCN LTD IS NOT AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE EMPLOYER

Are you passionate and experienced Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in your community? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking a qualified, advanced experienced Nurse or Paramedic Practitioner.

This is an excellent opportunity to:

Play a central role in delivering compassionate, patient centred care.

Develop advanced clinic skills within a supportive multidisciplinary Primary Care Network (PCN) team

Main duties of the job

Main Duties pf the job:

• Deliver advanced high-quality autonomous care for patients with acute and long-term conditions.
• Provide patient care face-to-face
• Work collaboratively with GPs and MDT colleagues.
• Contribute to clinical leadership and service development.

About us

What we offer

*A supportive and progressive environment where your expertise is valued.

*Close collaboration with GPs, advanced practitioners, and wider clinical team.

*Opportunities for ongoing training, reflective practice, and professional development.

*This is your chance to join a forward-thinking, patient focused team where you can truly make an impact every day.

About us

West Leeds Primary Care Network was founded in 2019, bringing together 6 established independent practices:

West Leeds Family Practice

Hillfoot Surgery

Manor Park Surgery

Hillfoot Surgery

The Gables Surgery

Robin Lane

We offer a much wider range of primary care services to patients, providing access to a wider set of clinical disciplines than is possible in individual practices which allow GP practices to proactively and holistically care for patients and encourage them to manage their own health and well-being.

Job responsibilities

Our Frailty Service is a multidisciplinary one for those over 65 years of age who demonstrate two or more of the five frailty indicators (including falls, immobility, incontinence, delirium, medication side effects susceptibility). These patients are comprehensively assessed in their own home (or care home) following which a bespoke patient centred care plan will be created. The intention is to either improve or maintain their level of health and wellbeing and also to enable them to remain as independent as possible in their own residence. The Frailty Team does not carry a caseload; each referral is classed as an intervention. Following review from the Frailty Team the patient care is handed back to their GP practice.

Each patient is assessed for falls prevalence and has their medications reviewed. An independent prescriber would be an advantage for this role but it is not essential as other members of the team can issue medication

You will attend weekly MDT meetings with a consultant geriatrician hosted by our frailty team to discuss the most complex patients who have regular home visits. You will also closely liaise with the wider PCN team as needed in order to deliver a truly holistic healthcare service. The successful candidate will need to be passionate about improving patient health outcomes.

The daily Acute Home Visiting list offers a change of pace and you will encounter such problems as swellings (legs, feet etc), UTIs, chest infections, oedema, infected wounds, skin complaints such as rashes and migraines etc. The provision of this service is vital to our member practices and frees up practice GP time while we fulfil these visits for them

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths Nursing degree Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• Advanced Practitioner

Skills

Essential

• Please see uploaded job specification for further information

Desirable

• Experience in SystmOne clinical system