Enhanced Practice Nurse

Are you an experienced Advanced/EnhancedNurse Practitioner with a passion for improving outcomes for older adults living in care homes?

We areseekinga highly skilled Advanced/Enhanced Nurse Practitioner to work as part of a Primary Care Network (PCN) Care Home Nursing Team, delivering proactive, responsive, and person-centred clinical care to residents across multiple care homes.

This role focuses on providing high-quality clinical leadership, advanced assessment, and prescribing(desirable) tosupport care home residents, helping to reduce avoidable hospital admissions, improve continuity of care, and support care home staff through expert clinical input.

As an Advanced/Enhanced Nurse Practitioner (Care Homes), you will work autonomously within a defined scope of practice, providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of care home residents, including urgent care, long term conditionmanagementand end of life care.

Who We Are......

Founded in August 2020, Primary Care Physio has scaled rapidly and is one of the fastest-growing clinical service providers in the UK. Underpinned by our reputation for quality and sustainable care, we have already been established as England's largest national specialist ARRS clinical service provider who is purely focused on supporting NHS Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and their GP practices to deliver high-quality and tech-enabled NHS primary care clinical solutions.

Our services are recognised as best-in-class for our industry, recently winning the 'Best in Primary Care & Diagnostics' Laing Buisson 2023 award.

Through our talented employed team of over nearly 400 employed First Contact Practitioners, Nurses & Advanced Practitioners, who are supported by experienced and Health Education England-trained clinical supervisors, we have been commissioned by c 200 NHS Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to deliver an integrated and local managed clinical service. We now serve 1000+ GP practices and a patient population of over 9 million.

We conduct over 1 million patient consultation appointments per year. You can find out more about our team here:

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The Enhanced Practice Nurse (EPN) works as part of the primary care multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, evidence based nursing care. The role sits between a Practice Nurse and an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, providing extended clinical skills, increased autonomy, and leadership within the practice or PCN.

The postholder will manage a range of longterm conditions, undertake clinical assessments, contribute to service development, and support the delivery of high quality patient care across the practice.

Care Homes Responsibilities (Advanced/Enhanced Practice)

• Able to travel to different sites during the working week (set site per day).
• Work autonomously within a defined scope of practice, providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of care home residents.
• Deliver urgent care, longterm condition management, and endoflife care.
• Conduct weekly inperson ward rounds in allocated care homes.
• Provide sameday and urgent clinical assessments.
• Complete comprehensive assessments for new admissions and postdischarge reviews.
• Manage frailty, dementia, longterm conditions, and endoflife care needs.
• Undertake prescribing, referrals, escalation, and safetynetting within scope of competence.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and high quality clinical documentation.

Professional & Leadership Responsibilities

• Act as a clinical resource for the nursing team and wider MDT.
• Support junior nurses, HCAs, and trainees through supervision and mentorship.
• Contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, and audit activities.
• Participate in the development and implementation of clinical pathways.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation.
• Work within NMC Code of Conduct and national/local policies.

Service Development

• Contribute to the design and delivery of enhanced services and PCN initiatives.
• Support the practice in meeting QOF, IIF, and other performance targets.
• Identify opportunities to improve patient experience and service efficiency.
• Participate in MDT meetings, case reviews, and clinical discussions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Registered Nurse (NMC).
• Significant experience in primary care or community nursing.
• Evidence of extended clinical skills (e.g., clinical assessment modules, LTC management).
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, infection control, and clinical governance.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage a varied caseload.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel between sites as required.
• Level 6/7 modules in clinical assessment, diagnostics, or longterm condition management.
• Experience supervising or mentoring staff.
• Experience in quality improvement or service development.
• Working toward or interested in progressing to Advanced Clinical Practice.

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