Proactive Care Nurse
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Redruth, TR15 1AU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A4753-25-0008 |
Summary
Please ensure you read the attached comprehensive job description and complete the attached application form as well as the online form. Consult, assess and treat patients with complex needs, using comprehensive geriatric assessments digitally, ensuring holistic assessment, prompt treatment and crisis care planning to directly prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. Obtain, analyse and interpret the patients history, presenting symptoms, physical findings and diagnostic information to develop an appropriate differential diagnosis, ensuring clinical systems are updated and the persons GP is aware of the plan and findings. Actively participate in North Kerrier Multidisciplinary team meetings. Develop interventions and strategies to maintain the person in their own home setting or as close to home as is safe and achievable whilst providing specialised advice concerning care and safety, prioritising work accordingly. Undertake robust clinical enquiry using clinical reasoning and decision making to establish a safe and effective treatment and personalised care plan. Maintain competence in prescribing according to the level of prescribing qualification and participate in regular continuing professional development in this role. Ensure MDTs adhere to the Gold Standard Framework and lead MDT development and best practice across North Kerrier. Ensure the right people participate in MDTs from the North Kerrier Neighbourhood teams. Participate in GP huddles and any other Partnership MDT and promote effective ways of working; Exercise a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a patient requires escalation or referring on to other services. Develop effective working relationships with the Palliative Care Team and embed new processes and ways of working if required, to avoid duplication and to enhance the patient and family experience. For an informal discussion please contact Tessa Goodchild, PCN Business Manager, tessa.goodchild@nhs.net.