Home Visiting Clinical PractitionerNHS

Job summary

Come and join our great Home Visiting Team in Canterbury! We work in an integrated and collaborative way with Canterbury GP Practices. We are proud of the services we provide and passionate about improving them further.

The visiting practitioner will work as part of the PCN visiting team undertaking both pre-arranged and same day visits to housebound patients and to those living in care settings. The role requires the practitioner to be able to assess and treat patients within their scope of practice as well as liaise with the patients' GP practice.

The team will be primarily in the community but based at out premises, The Annexe, Ethelbert Road Surgery and the focus of the role includes:

• Working with patients and their carers and the wider neighbourhood team
• Keeping patients at the centre of collaborative integrated neighbourhood working
• Delivering Care Home rounds under the supervision of the aligned practice
• Delivering a home visiting service to housebound patients across Canterbury
• Providing effective care planning and comprehensive assessments
• Supporting the development of effective systems and processes to ensure well-coordinated, high quality care that meets contractual requirements.

You will need access to transport to enable you to travel around the Canterbury practices' catchment area.

Main duties of the job

It is important to note that responsibilities will evolve so this is not designed to be an exhaustive list.

The role includes:

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within Canterbury Integrated Healthcare including involvement in weekly frailty and/or care home MDT meetings

Assess and triage housebound patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team

Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines for both routine and urgent complaints. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.

Liaising with other professionals, families and carers to provide clinical information relating to patient management.

Working with practices to support the delivery of Enhanced Health in Care Homes. This can include admission assessments, supporting care home ward rounds and advanced care planning.

To apply please submit a CV and cover letter explaining why you would be suitable for this role.

Date for interviews: 4th November 2026

Job description

It is important to note that responsibilities will evolve so this is not designed to be an exhaustive list.

The role includes:

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within Canterbury Integrated Healthcare including involvement in weekly frailty and/or care home MDT meetings

Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team

Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services

Liaising with other professionals, families and carers to provide clinical information relating to patient management.

Support the delivery of Enhanced Health in Care Homes including:

oAssessment upon admission of new patients to care homes

oProactive, timely and consistent weekly support to the care home

oEvaluate and modify care plans

oTimely same day response to the in-reach teams where appropriate

oProvide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines for both routine and urgent complaints.

Be able to:

Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance

Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients, reviews of patients with learning disabilities)

Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the networks

Communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, person-centred service is delivered

Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the organisation

Communicate effectively with patients and, where appropriate, family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their physical health needs, results, findings and treatment choices

Any other tasks and duties commensurate with the role

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

About us

Canterbury Integrated Healthcare supports the 7 Canterbury practices and their PCNs covering a patient population of over 100,000 and we have worked together for many years

The vision in East Kent is for neighbourhoods to develop a model of collaborative care that enables people to live as independently as possible by delivering high quality, person centred care that integrates hospital, social care, community and voluntary services around primary care networks of GP practices.

The vision for Canterbury is for the two PCNs to work together to achieve excellent patient care through integrated pathways accessed close to home via local GP practices.

The Canterbury PCNs will achieve this by delivering primary care at scale, including:

Engagement from all practices within the city in the Integrated model of care

Partnership working with other PCNs, NHS Trusts, community providers and the voluntary sector

A comprehensive workforce strategy including engagement with the new medical school for Kent and Medway and the Additional PCN roles.

We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home.