Job summary
Job Title: Prescribing Nurse Practitioner
Location: Westwood Road Surgery, Reading
Salary: Up to £30 per hour depending on experience
Working hours: Part time - 20 hours per week
Job type: Permanent
Main duties of the job
The Prescribing Nurse Practitioner will play a key role within our multidisciplinary team, delivering clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prescribing for patients in a primary care setting.
This role includes home visits, support with QOF chronic disease reviews, undertaking clinical same day assessments, and ongoing continuity of care. The post holder will work autonomously within their scope of practice, helping to increase appointment capacity and improve accessforpatients.
About us
We are a rapidly growing GP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care within a sustainable primary care system. We appreciate that our whole primary care system is struggling, which is causing a negative effect on patient care and staff happiness. We believe that we can turn this around by reimagining how primary care is delivered from the ground up by placing a focus on data insights, technology and clinical innovation. Ultimately, we want to improve patient access, patient experience and health outcomes to significantly increase the quality of care for our patients. However, we can only build the best primary care service there is if our colleagues are happy, empowered and supported within an excellent working environment. If you believe that there are ways to drastically improve the way primary care is delivered for both patients and staff alike and you want to be a part of this; then we would love to meet you and tell you more about our plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake triage and clinical assessment of patients, including same day, and routine patients.
- Independently manage a wide range of conditions, providingevidence basedtreatment and prescribing in line with local guidelines.
- Conduct home visits, providing high-quality care outside the practice setting which may include frailty checks, woundcareand medication reviews.
- Deliver QOFalignedchronic disease management.
- Provide medication reviews, reconciliation, and support safemedicinesoptimisation.
- Offer lifestyle advice and signpost patients to community or social prescribing services.
- Work closely with GPs, nurses,pharmacistsand the wider MDT.
- Attend clinical meetings, safeguarding reviews, and case discussions.
- Provide clear, compassionate communication to patients and carers, including handling complex or sensitive information.
- Adhere to confidentiality, safeguarding, infection control, and information governance standards.
- Participate in quality improvement and audits whereappropriate.
- Maintainaccurateclinical records and complete all required documentation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake triage and clinical assessment of patients, including same day, and routine patients.
- Independently manage a wide range of conditions, providingevidence basedtreatment and prescribing in line with local guidelines.
- Conduct home visits, providing high-quality care outside the practice setting which may include frailty checks, woundcareand medication reviews.
- Deliver QOFalignedchronic disease management.
- Provide medication reviews, reconciliation, and support safemedicinesoptimisation.
- Offer lifestyle advice and signpost patients to community or social prescribing services.
- Work closely with GPs, nurses,pharmacistsand the wider MDT.
- Attend clinical meetings, safeguarding reviews, and case discussions.
- Provide clear, compassionate communication to patients and carers, including handling complex or sensitive information.
- Adhere to confidentiality, safeguarding, infection control, and information governance standards.
- Participate in quality improvement and audits whereappropriate.
- Maintainaccurateclinical records and complete all required documentation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (V300)
- Experience working in primary care
- Strong IT and digital clinical system skills
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, and information governance
- Ability to work autonomously within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience undertaking home visits
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (V300)
- Experience working in primary care
- Strong IT and digital clinical system skills
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, and information governance
- Ability to work autonomously within scope of practice
Desirable
- Experience undertaking home visits
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).