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Job Description
- Req#: W0027-25-0004?language=en&page=827&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Please see uploaded job specification for further information
- Experience in SystmOne clinical system
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
- Nursing degree
- Independent Prescriber
- Advanced Practitioner
- Please see uploaded job specification for further information
- Experience in SystmOne clinical system
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
- Nursing degree
- Independent Prescriber
- Advanced Practitioner
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
Date posted
02 April 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£36,000 to £45,000 a year depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
W0027-25-0004
Job locations
Manor House Ground Floor
23 Robin Lane
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
LS28 7BR
Job descriptionJob 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 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
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Skills
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Desirable
Qualifications
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Skills
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure 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).
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
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
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.