Care Home and Housebound Long-term Condition Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Homebound and Care Home Team in Five Towns PCN. PCNs are groups of GP practices working closely together to provide integrated services to the local population. The successful candidate will be joining an established PCN team made up of Care Coordinators, a Nurse Associate, a registered Nurse and ANPs, focusing on the care of House bound and Care home residents. The team is under the direction of the PCN Business manager, 2 GP clinical leads and PCN Lead Nurse to deliver high quality service to housebound and hard to reach patients. This role will focus on supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities. They will work collaboratively with the Practice teams, as well as the wider PCN team, to meet the needs of patients and providing nurse leadership as required.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of the Practice's multidisciplinary team, the post holder will effectively deliver nursing services to the entitled patient population.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Prescribe medication for patients in accordance with PGDs and own scope of practice.
• Review patient medications to enhance compliance.
• Request pathology services, as necessary.
• Process pathology results, as required.
• Oversee the provision of chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure effective use of read codes.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Support the Team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice).
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately.
• Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective and individualised patient care across all patient groups within the PCN or GP Practice location.
• Support the delivery of preventative health programmes in line with NHS guidance

For full list of main duties please see attached Job Description.

About us

Conexus Healthcare is a community interest company and is the federation for general practice in Wakefield.

Our current services:

Clinical Services: Our GP Care Wakefield brand provides evening and weekend appointments to support general practice with enhanced and urgent care. We also offer clinical research, health checks and staff bank.

Training and consultancy: Our Resilience Academy and TARGET sessions benefit the Wakefield general practice workforce. Further afield, we are known nationally for our care navigation, social prescribing and medical administration training.

GP and PCN support: We give PCNs the practical support they need to employ staff, coordinate projects and be resilient. We are proud to lead on Future Selph programme, a mental health service for 16-25 year olds.

Corporate Services: Conexus delivers HR, communications, administration, governance, and financial support services to our PCNs and the wider Conexus family. We aim to provide this function to Wakefield general practices.

Five Towns PCN is situated across Normanton, Castleford and Knottingley, providing healthcare services to approximately 58,000 patients. One of the fundamental principles of Five Towns PCN is developing our staff and working with them to understand training needs and creating a plan to achieve this. This includes but is not limited to supporting staff through diplomas and the non-medical prescribing course.

Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Kings Medical Centre

King Edward Street

Normanton

West Yorkshire

WF62AZ

Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Kings Medical Centre

King Edward Street

Normanton

West Yorkshire

WF62AZ

Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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