Visiting Nurse (Prescribing)
2 days ago
Torquay
Are you a passionate and experienced Nurse Prescriber looking to make a real difference in the lives of some of the most vulnerable members of our community? We are seeking a compassionate and highly motivated Band 7 Nurse Prescriber / Visiting Nurse to join our friendly and supportive practice team. This rewarding role focuses on delivering high-quality, person-centred care to care home residents and housebound patients, helping them remain safe, well and independent in their own homes wherever possible. Working autonomously and as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will provide clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prescribing, while building meaningful relationships with patients, families, carers and care home staff. You will play a key role in coordinating care, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and ensuring patients receive the right care at the right time. You will also have the opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise through mentoring, supporting and developing colleagues, contributing to service improvement and helping shape the future of community-based care within the practice. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation that values kindness, teamwork and innovation, where you can use your clinical skills, leadership abilities and professional judgement to make a genuine difference every day. The Nurse Prescriber Visiting Nurse will work as an experienced and autonomous member of the multidisciplinary primary care team, delivering high-quality, evidence-based nursing care predominantly to care home residents and housebound patients. The post-holder will undertake comprehensive clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prescribing within their professional competence, providing safe and effective care to patients who are unable to attend the practice. The working day will primarily be structured around: • Mornings: proactive and responsive visits to care home residents and housebound patients, including assessment, prescribing, treatment planning and clinical review., • Afternoons: routine and straightforward home visits that can safely and appropriately be managed by an experienced prescribing nurse., • Appropriate liaison and escalation to the patient's GP, community services, urgent care or secondary care where the patient's needs fall outside the post-holder's competence or require medical review. The post-holder will work closely with GPs, nursing colleagues, care home staff, community nursing teams, pharmacy professionals, social care and other services to provide coordinated care and help avoid unnecessary hospital attendance or admission where appropriate. The role will additionally provide clinical leadership, mentoring and professional support to nursing colleagues and other healthcare professionals. We are a patient-centred, caring, and friendly team, committed to delivering a professional, high-quality service. We build rapport and trust with patients and staff through open, honest, and communicative relationships. We believe in the importance of continuity of care, ensuring patients receive consistent, reliable support from familiar faces. This strengthens relationships, improves understanding, and enhances the overall patient experience. We aim to create a supportive environment where everyone feels confident to open up, knowing they will be treated with empathy and respect. Our team is hardworking, collaborative, and focused on: • Supporting patients and staff with sensitive issues to build strong relationships., • Empowering staff to grow, reduce anxiety, and promote wellbeing., • Sharing workload, completing tasks efficiently, and improving productivity., • Providing a seamless service with fewer errors, less time wasted, and better understanding., • Enhancing patient satisfaction by placing patients at the heart of every decision we make. Through compassion, teamwork, and clear communication, we foster a culture where we aspire that both patients and staff feel valued, cared for, and confident in the service we provide. Our values at Chilcote Surgery, our values guide everything we do to provide safe, compassionate, and high-quality care for our community. Date posted: 29 October 2026 Pay scheme: Agenda for change Band: Band 7 Salary: Depending on experience Contract: Permanent Working pattern: Full-time Reference number: A5134-26-0008 Job locations: Hampton Avenue, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 3LA, United Kingdom • Undertake planned and clinically appropriate home visits for housebound patients and care home residents., • Support the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) lead and to work to the IPC Policy, • Consult with patients and their families to undertake assessments of patient need, • Support in the long-term condition management within the organisation, including being involved with quality improvement and assurance initiatives, • Support public health and screening programmes, including immunisations, vaccinations, and cervical screening and also to provide opportunistic health promotion advice, • Prescribe medication in accordance with own scope of practice, • Embed population health management approaches within general practice, targeting health inequalities and improving access, • As required, provide routine nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF, • Support, mentor, and supervise new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals within the organisation, • Be an integral part of the general practice team as well as supporting the wider practice nurse network and multi-disciplinary team, • Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition, • Participate in clinical audits and research projects and implements changes as required, including supporting with the development, and updating of practice protocols/guidelines and procedures locally, • Work within national and local protocols where these exist, • Recognise the boundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred, • Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements, • Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children, • Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events, • Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes, • Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance, • Support the practice team with the reviewing and implementation of practice policies and protocols, ensuring conformance to extant legislation, • 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, • Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., flu clinics), • Provide travel advice services, • Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times, • Contribute to practice targets (QOF, etc.), complying with relevant guidance, • Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation ensuring that SNOMED CT codes are used effectively, • Maintain chronic disease registers and implement an effective call/recall system, • Chaperone patients where necessary, • Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies, • Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.) In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Nurse Prescriber has the following wider responsibilities: • Develop, review and implement nursing protocols in conjunction with the partners, • Support all members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary, conducting appraisals and training needs analyses as required, • Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care, • Support and participate in shared learning in order to improve patient care, • Experience of Practice Nurse skills including wound care, ECG, venepuncture, immunisations, new patient medicals and women's health (cervical cytology, contraception etc.), • Request pathology tests and process the results, advising patients accordingly, • Understanding of the importance of evidence-based practice, • Ability to promote best practice regarding nursing matters, • Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs, • Good clinical system IT knowledge and has an ability to record accurate clinical notes, • Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face, • Understanding of safeguarding adults and children, • Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP surgeries, QOF and enhanced service, • Broad knowledge of clinical governance, • Knowledge of public health issues in the local area, • Awareness of issues within the wider health arena and knowledge of health promotion strategies, • Knowledge of national standards that inform general practice (NSF NICE guidelines), • Has demonstrable experience in long-term conditions management and quality improvement, • Has evidence of working at the relevant level of practice as described in the Primary Care and General Practice Nursing Career and Core Capabilities Framework, • Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council), • Independent Nurse Prescriber, • Post graduate diploma or degree #J-18808-Ljbffr
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