Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Post: Practice Nurse

Job Title

Practice Nurse

Department and site

Millstream Medical Centre Salisbury and Larkhill Medical Centre

Reports to

Practice Managers and Partners

Responsible for

Fulfilment of his/her own role as Practice Nurse, and for his/her own actions

Purpose of Job

Working in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols, the practice Nurse will assist the practice clinical team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care while adhering to the practice safeguarding plicy

The Practice Nurse is expected to be:-

• Have excellent customer service skills.

• Energetic and enthusiastic about hard work, able to multitask and organised in your work.

• Calm in a crisis

• Able to maintain confidentiality at all times.

• An effective team player and good communicator with the whole team

• Good at autonomous working, working to set procedures and protocols.

• Happy to do the everyday mundane tasks, whilst being able to cope with the ever changing demands of patients, and the NHS

• Skilled at, or able to quickly learn to use, clinical computer systems.

• Smartly presented

• Not afraid to ask for help

  Main tasks

  Daily involvement in the provision of healthcare services at the practice. This may include:-

• Maintain membership of all relevant professional bodies.
• 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
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• 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 and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs
• Ensure compliance with the GMS contract by working to protocols and templates on SystmOne (TPP) and read coding information accurately
• Maintain health and safety of self, patients and colleagues.
• Assist with the clinical management of minor illness and minor injury.
• Phlebotomy
• Respiratory assessment in relation to COPD & asthma
• Urine testing
• Basic Counselling in times of need
• Family planning
• Pre conceptual advice
• Health Promotion
• Smoking cessation
• BP advice and monitoring
• New patient checks
• Spirometry
• Additional nursing skills as required and after suitable training,

The above list in not exhaustive

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and management of their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Ensuring job holders across the practice adhere to their individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.

• Maintain an up to date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation across the business

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business

• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others

• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed

• Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers

• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

• Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work space standards

  Equality and diversity:

  The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a team preferably in primary care

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Millstream Medical Centre

Address

Avon Approach

Salisbury

SP1 3SL

Employer's website

https://sarumhealthgroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)