At a Glance
- Tasks: Conduct home visits and assess patients to improve their health outcomes.
- Company: Join the innovative West Leeds Primary Care Network team.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours and competitive salary based on experience.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives while working in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Must be an Independent Prescriber with nursing experience.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 54000 £ per year.
We have a vacancy at West Leeds PCN for a prescribing Nurse, Paramedic or Nurse Practitioner. This role would particularly suit an Advanced Practitioner with good all round nursing experience as the role itself will be very broad. We need someone who is an experienced Independent Prescriber (minimum of 3 years experience), particularly for the Acute Home Visiting element of this role. You would be joining a highly skilled and experienced team with a wealth of peer support available each day.
Main duties of the job:
- Annual frailty reviews - these are templated and in depth. We focus mainly on those that are severely frail but we also get the opportunity to work with the moderately frail, changing their health outcome in good time to avoid them from tipping into the severely frail Rockwood score. These are mainly done in the patient's home unless they are able to get into surgery.
- Acute home visits - you will spend a part of your working week doing these as this service relieves a great deal of pressure on our member practices (particularly the GPs).
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.
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
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer name: West Leeds Primary Care Network
Address: Manor House, 23 Robin Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7BR, United Kingdom
PCN Home Visiting Prescribing Practitioner in Pudsey employer: National health service
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