Community Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Proactive Home Care Leader

Conexus Healthcare; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Conexus Healthcare is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for the Integrated Neighbourhood Care Team in Wakefield. You will work to transform care for housebound patients and care home residents, delivering proactive, coordinated and person-centred care closer to home.

The role emphasizes autonomous practice, multidisciplinary collaboration, and leadership in quality improvement, population health, and end-of-life care.

Qualifications

• Experience in primary care settings and independent practice.
• Experience with care homes and elderly care; palliative care knowledge.
• Familiar with SystmOne/EMIS and GDPR/compliance basics.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage patients at risk of deterioration, hospital admission or increasing frailty
• Undertake holistic assessments for housebound patients and care home residents
• Develop, implement and review personalised care and support plans
• Lead case management of patients with complex long-term conditions, frailty and multimorbidity
• Support anticipatory care planning, including ReSPECT discussions and advance care planning
• Contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings and neighbourhood population health initiatives
• Use risk stratification and population health data to identify unwarranted variation and address health inequalities
• Facilitate early interventions which maintain independence and quality of life
• Provide rapid clinical assessment and treatment for acutely unwell housebound patients and care home residents
• Independently assess, diagnose and manage a wide range of presenting conditions
• Prescribe safely and effectively within scope of practice using independent prescribing qualifications
• Determine appropriate escalation, referral or admission when necessary
• Support admission avoidance through timely intervention and treatment
• Respond to clinical deterioration and urgent requests from care homes, carers and other healthcare professionals
• Liaise closely with ambulance services, community services and secondary care colleagues

Skills

Primary care experience

Chronic disease management

Anticipatory planning

End of life care

Care homes experience

Palliative care knowledge

SystmOne

EMIS

Microsoft Office

Education

Postgraduate ANP/ACP degree

Independent prescribing qualification

Registered Healthcare Practitioner

Tools

SystmOne

EMIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Conexus Healthcare is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for the Integrated Neighbourhood Care Team in Wakefield. You will work to transform care for housebound patients and care home residents, delivering proactive, coordinated and person-centred care closer to home.

The role emphasizes autonomous practice, multidisciplinary collaboration, and leadership in quality improvement, population health, and end-of-life care.