Locum Nurse Practitioner Primary Care

Locum Ready; Kirkwall; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Locum Ready is seeking Locum Nurse Practitioners in Kirkwall to deliver autonomous NP clinics across community and GP environments. The role offers fully flexible sessions with opportunities to work across weekday, evening or weekend slots, tailored to your location and preferences.

You will run NP-led clinics, manage minor illnesses, support triage and urgent care demand, and prescribe where qualified, documenting actions in service systems.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Practitioner with clinical experience in primary care, urgent care or community health.
• Independent Prescribing qualification desirable.
• Strong clinical reasoning and communication skills.
• Ability to work confidently in varied clinical settings.
• Enhanced DBS clearance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Run autonomous NP clinics across community and GP environments.
• Manage acute presentations and routine assessments.
• Support urgent care demand with telephone triage.
• Prescribe safely within scope (if qualified).
• Review investigations and arrange follow-up actions.
• Document clearly and accurately within service clinical systems.
• Assist clinicians with general clinical duties as required.

Skills

Nurse Practitioner

Autonomous clinics

Triage

Prescribing (if qualified)

Enhanced DBS

Job description

Locum Ready is looking for Locum Nurse Practitioners in Kirkwall. This role offers flexible sessions across community healthcare settings and GP-based services, providing a varied working pattern for NPs confident in delivering autonomous clinics and supporting day-to-day clinical activity.

You will assist local providers by running NP-led clinics, managing minor illness presentations, supporting triage processes and delivering routine nursing tasks. Each service offers structured workflows and supportive clinical teams to ensure safe and efficient practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Running autonomous NP clinics across community and GP environments
• Managing acute presentations and routine assessments
• Supporting urgent care demand with telephone triage
• Prescribing safely within scope (if qualified)
• Reviewing investigations and completing follow-up actions
• Documenting clearly and accurately within service clinical systems
• Assisting clinicians with general clinical duties where required

Requirements

• Registered Nurse Practitioner with relevant clinical experience
• Independent Prescribing qualification desirable
• Background in primary care, urgent care or community health
• Strong clinical reasoning and communication skills
• Ability to work confidently in varied clinical settings
• Enhanced DBS

Working Pattern

• Fully flexible local sessions
• Options across weekdays, evenings or weekends
• Consistent opportunities for both ad-eh and ongoing bookings

Locum Ready provides locum and permanent opportunities for the full primary care workforce, covering GPs, ANPs, ACPs, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Pharmacists and wider MDT roles.

We work closely with regional and rural practices to offer consistent, flexible sessions tailored to your location, experience and preferred working pattern.

Learn more at www.locumready.co.uk.