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West Leeds Primary Care Network

PCN Home Visiting Nurse (ACP)

The closing date is 26 May 2025

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Job summary

Due to ill health retirement we have a vacancy in our highly skilled Home Visiting team within West Leeds Primary Care Network. We are looking for someone part time (approximately 30 hours per week but can flex to a degree on this). This role would 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, 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

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

Details

Date posted

12 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£36,000 to £48,000 a year depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

W0027-25-0008

Job locations

Manor House Ground Floor

23 Robin Lane

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 7BR


Job description

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

Job description

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

Skills

Essential

  • Please see uploaded job specification for further information

Desirable

  • Experience in SystmOne clinical system

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Advanced Practitioner
Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Please see uploaded job specification for further information

Desirable

  • Experience in SystmOne clinical system

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Advanced Practitioner

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).

Employer details

Employer name

West Leeds Primary Care Network

Address

Manor House Ground Floor

23 Robin Lane

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 7BR


Employer's website

https://www.westleedspcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

West Leeds Primary Care Network

Address

Manor House Ground Floor

23 Robin Lane

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 7BR


Employer's website

https://www.westleedspcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

PCN Manager

Lisa Francis

lisa.francis6@nhs.net

07736972385

Details

Date posted

12 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£36,000 to £48,000 a year depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

W0027-25-0008

Job locations

Manor House Ground Floor

23 Robin Lane

Pudsey

West Yorkshire

LS28 7BR


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