Job summary
Would you like the opportunity to work for a large forward thinking GP Practice.
The Roxton Practice has a vacancy for a further Practice Nurse to supplement an already large Nursing team.
The Roxton Practice is a large GP Practice with currently approx. 30,000 patients. The Main site is at Immingham with Branch sites at Weelsby View, Grimsby and Pelham Crescent, Keelby.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the delivery of Treatment Room / Practice nursing services care to the practice population. This will include clinical duties, health promotion, health screening, contribution to development of Practice services and participation in clinical audit. The Nurse should have a chronic disease specialism in either Diabetes and/ or Cardiovascular disease. Supported by the Senior Nurses they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities.
Main duties to include
- All health checks as delegated and within their competencies and specialism i.e. Diabetes, Respiratory and Cardio-vascular Disease
- BP monitoring
- Urinalysis
- Phlebotomy
- Perform other routine laboratory tests
- Assist other clinical members when necessary
- Provide lifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the Practice
- All aspects of wound care
- Record ECG’s
- Undertake other tasks delegated by senior nurse
- Administer injections including travel injections and baby vaccinations as per patient group direction
- Undertake pill checks
- Undertake ear syringing (after relevant training)
About us
We currently have 16 GP’s and 4 Clinical Pharmacists. We are
a training Practice for GP Registrars, FY2 medical students, Student Nurses,
Trainee Paramedics and Trainee Nursing Associates.
The Large Nursing team currently consists of 6 Advanced
Nurse Practitioners, 1 Nurse Practitioner and 1 trainee Advanced Nurse
Practitioners, 7 Practice Nurses, 2 Trainee Nursing Associates, 9 Advanced Healthcare
support workers and 3 Junior Healthcare Support workers.
We also have a community team comprising of 1 Advanced Nurse
Practitioners, 2 Paramedics and 1 Advanced Healthcare support worker.
The clinical team is supported by a large team of
Administration staff and care navigators.
The position available is to supplement our team to provide
General Nursing treatment and would suit someone who has an interest in
managing Chronic Diseases such as Diabetes, COPD, Asthma and Cardi-vascular
disease.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post Title: Practice Nurse/Chronic Disease Nurse
Grade: N/A
Salary : To be discussed at interview
Responsible To: Lead for Planned Care
Date Prepared: 1/12/2021
Specific Responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care
- Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients who are receiving ‘bad news’
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
- Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
- Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate
- Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
- Work within policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Team working
- Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice
- Accept delegation from other nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice
- Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
- Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team
Management of risk
- Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training
- Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all
- Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice
Utilising information
- Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
- Review and process data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand own and other’s responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care
Learning and development
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
- Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
- Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
- Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Act as a role model in good practice relating to equality and diversity
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
This job description will be subject to review in the light of developments in general practice and in consultation with the post holder.
Hours
Negotiable
Holidays
Holiday entitlement in a full year is five weeks.
Salary
This negotiable depending on experience and is paid at four or five weekly intervals to coincide with the last Friday of each calendar month.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post Title: Practice Nurse/Chronic Disease Nurse
Grade: N/A
Salary : To be discussed at interview
Responsible To: Lead for Planned Care
Date Prepared: 1/12/2021
Specific Responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care
- Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients who are receiving ‘bad news’
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
- Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
- Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate
- Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
- Work within policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Team working
- Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice
- Accept delegation from other nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice
- Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
- Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team
Management of risk
- Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training
- Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all
- Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice
Utilising information
- Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
- Review and process data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand own and other’s responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care
Learning and development
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
- Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
- Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
- Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Act as a role model in good practice relating to equality and diversity
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
This job description will be subject to review in the light of developments in general practice and in consultation with the post holder.
Hours
Negotiable
Holidays
Holiday entitlement in a full year is five weeks.
Salary
This negotiable depending on experience and is paid at four or five weekly intervals to coincide with the last Friday of each calendar month.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Experience in General Practice but not essential as training can be given.
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- Experience within a health care setting and Knowledge of Chronic Long term Conditions
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to provide quality care
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Good team working skills
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to work independently following verbal or written instructions
- Adaptable to change
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Basic IT Skills
- Knowledge in SystmOne
- Skills in Phlebotomy, ECGs, Patient Health Checks, Blood Pressures
- Basic first aid knowledge
- Health and safety awareness
- Awareness of Blood Borne Viruses
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
- Able to work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure and remain calm
- Flexible and adaptable
- Aware of own limitations
- Keen to develop
Physical Attributes
Essential
- Must be able to meet the physical and travel/mobility requirements of the post (with or without reasonable adjustments)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Experience in General Practice but not essential as training can be given.
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- Experience within a health care setting and Knowledge of Chronic Long term Conditions
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to provide quality care
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Good team working skills
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to work independently following verbal or written instructions
- Adaptable to change
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Basic IT Skills
- Knowledge in SystmOne
- Skills in Phlebotomy, ECGs, Patient Health Checks, Blood Pressures
- Basic first aid knowledge
- Health and safety awareness
- Awareness of Blood Borne Viruses
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
- Able to work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure and remain calm
- Flexible and adaptable
- Aware of own limitations
- Keen to develop
Physical Attributes
Essential
- Must be able to meet the physical and travel/mobility requirements of the post (with or without reasonable adjustments)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
