Job responsibilities
To be responsible for the deliveryof practice nursing services to the practice population, supported by GP's within the practice.
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
- Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a 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
- Venepuncture
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care
- Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Undertake/initiate appropriate independent & supplementary prescribing within agreed scope of practice
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 management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework
- Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate
- Understand and apply safeguarding procedures 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