Prescribing Nurse Practitioner

Salary:
Up to £30 per hour depending on experience

Working hours:

Part time - 20 hours per week

Job type:
Permanent

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.

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.

• 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,pharmacist sand 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 where appropriate.
• Maintainaccurateclinical records and complete all required documentation.

• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• 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
• Experience undertaking home visits

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.