PCN Care Home/Primary Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,000.00 to £58,487.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54000.00 - £58487.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Waddington, LN5 9NT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B0281-25-0007 |
Summary
Assess, diagnose and treat care home patients with complex and undifferentiated health conditions, acting independently within professional guidelines. Manage the complete clinical care of patients, including planning and delivering treatments, making necessary referrals to other specialists, and facilitating continuity of care Work as a core member of the multi-disciplinary HomeHealth team, providing expert clinical advice to colleagues and other members of the healthcare team. Request investigations such as blood, urine and other laboratory tests, electrocardiographs (ECGs), ultrasound scans and x-rays in accordance with IR(ME)R regulations and local policy. Use high-level communication skills to explain complex medical information and sensitive issues to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals. Provide additional capacity support for the PCN within our member practices and support day to day access and capacity. Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the Primary Care team. Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action. Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation and complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice. Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with the patient, their family or carers. Continuously re-evaluate findings and clinical response to treatment and establish an on-going management plan as appropriate. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately in complex, urgent and emergency situations, including initiation and leadership of resuscitation. Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional, clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within Primary Care, for example, first contact practitioners and personalised care roles. Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement work across the PCN. Be responsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads. Follow organisational policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Report any incidents, accidents or complaints in a timely manner, taking appropriate action where necessary. Develop themselves and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities. Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety. Maintain accurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work. Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN. Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participates in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events. Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes. Attend a formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed. Perform other general tasks as assigned. This list is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The postholder will be expected to carry out other tasks, which may be reasonably required by the employer. The post may be subject to change/review as the needs of the role change.