PCN Home Visiting Prescribing PractitionerNHS
Job summary
PLEASE NOTE WEST LEEDS PCN LTD IS NOT AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE EMPLOYER
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
There are two elements to this role:
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 (which you will find immensely satisfying). 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 services relieves a great deal of pressure on our member practices (particularly the GPs)
Please see the uploaded job specification document for full details
Job description
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
About us
West Leeds PCN is a mature and visionary PCN, boasting a well developed workforce across multiple clinical disciplines. We are fortunate to have our own premises for remote work ("PCN HQ") which means we can work daily in a true MDT style across all of the various clinical teams
Please see our website for more information-West Leeds Primary Care Network.
Please note: West Leeds PCN is not an agenda for change organisation and we deliver our organisations T&Cs and not the T&Cs of NHS Trusts.