Locum Nurse Practitioner Primary Care

My Internet Support, LLC.; Newton Mearns; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Locum Ready is recruiting Nurse Practitioners for flexible sessions in Newton Mearns, delivering autonomous NP clinics across community and GP settings. You will manage acute cases, routine assessments and participate in urgent care triage, while adhering to safe prescribing within your scope.

Ideal candidates are Registered Nurse Practitioners with primary or urgent care experience, strong clinical reasoning, excellent communication, and DBS clearance.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Practitioner with relevant clinical experience.
• 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 clearance.

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 follow-up actions.
• Document clearly within service clinical systems.
• Assist clinicians with general clinical duties where required.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Communication skills

Adaptability

Education

Nurse Practitioner qualification

Independent Prescribing (desirable)

Job description

Locum Ready is looking for Locum Nurse Practitioners in Newton Mearns. 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-hoc 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.