Recruitment

Pay scheme
Other

Salary
£17 an hour

Contract
Fixed term

Duration
1 Year

Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number
W0027-25-0006

Closing Date
The closing date is 25 May 2025

Job summary

This is a really exciting opportunity to join a mature and visionary Primary Care Network in a brand new role that reflects our evolution over the last six years of operation. We need a dedicated member of staff to oversee our numerous projects, including CQC registration in order to maximise efficiency and funding streams. We anticipate this to be a 12 month role offered on a fixed term basis but it is possible that we could either extend the contract or convert it to a permanent one depending on the performance of the successful recruit. Please see uploaded job description for more details

Main duties of the job

• You will document and update all current live projects across the PCN, providing updates to management as requested.
• You will bid for new project work along with the relevant clinical or management team and work closely with them to implement pathways as needed
• You will work with Leadership on the registration process for CQC, assisting with the initial application and subsequent policies as needed
• You will present your progress across all live projects at our PCN Board meetings, answering any questions Board members may have
• You will build close relationships with the Senior PCN Leadership Team as well as stakeholders such as our member practices

About us

West Leeds Primary Care Network (PCN) provides enhanced clinical services for six GP surgeries across the Pudsey and Bramley area with a patient population of approximately 70k.

West Leeds PCN currently benefits from the following clinical teams, directly employed by ourselves:

• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
• Health Care Assistants
• Health and Wellbeing Coaches
• Dietitians
• Learning Disability / Severe Mental Illness Care Co-ordinator
• Highly skilled prescribing Frailty / Home visiting team (Advanced Clinical Practitioners andAssociate Clinical Practitioners)
• Health & Wellbeing Coach (cancer care)
• Physiotherapists
• Lead nurses for Diabetes and Learning Disabilities

Please view our website for more details

Job description

Job responsibilities

West Leeds Primary Care Network is a mature and well developed PCN of approximately 60 staff in total. Historically, we have been given a number of pilots and projects to work on both clinically and administratively; as such we have highlighted the need to employ a dedicated Project Lead to collate and organise each of the discrete projects matrix style in order that the pathways through each project are smooth with all funding streams optimised. Furthermore, we intend to register with the Care Quality Commission in the very near future so the successful applicant will also have oversight of the registration framework and all that this entails. The successful applicant will work very closely with the PCN Leadership Team, the Operational Team and Practice Management to develop and implement the requisite policies and governance structures. This role will be on a fixed term contract basis to begin with but as it is a newly created post, it may be that we consider converting this to a permanent contract. In particular, if the successful applicant is able to bring a significant amount of new project work (and funding) to the PCN, we may consider the role on a permanent basis

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

Desirable

• Project Management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within the NHS, in particular Primary Care
• Please see uploaded job description for full person specifications

Desirable

• Experience of CQC registration and regulation
• Experience of handling multiple projects concurrently
• Please see uploaded job description for full person specifications

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.

Pay scheme
Other

Salary
£36,000 to £48,000 a year depending on experience

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Flexible working

Reference numberW0027-25-0008

Closing Date
The closing date is 26 May 2025

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

Job 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

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Please see uploaded job specification for further information

Desirable

• Experience in SystmOne clinical system

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
• Nursing degree
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• Advanced Practitioner

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).ormerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.