Job summary
We
are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, dynamic Practice Nurse to join
our friendly multidisciplinary team . The candidate will require recent
experience within a Primary Care Setting, be adaptable, highly motivated,
relish a challenge and want to develop an ongoing career in Primary Care. Accredited training and Knowledge, skills and experience of working with chronic disease management is
highly desirable.
Main duties of the job
The
purpose of the post is the delivery of safe, high quality primary care nursing
services to the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct, the
post holder will within the nurse team, ideally using previous primary care
experience provide advanced nurse interventions and influence development of
nursing service.
About us
Mid Sussex Health Care is a high
performing, innovative, well established training practice. We have achieved a consistent CQC rating of
Good in all areas, and rate highly in patient satisfaction surveys. The Practice is situated in
close proximity to the South Downs National Park, Brighton and the coast and there are excellent road and
rail connections to Brighton, Crawley, Gatwick and London.
We currently have 11 GP partners, 1 Business partner, 1 salaried
GP and 10 members in our nursing team. The practice also benefits from
pharmacist time through our PCN and Social Prescribers and Care co-ordinators, Health and Wellbeing coaches and child and Young Adults Social prescribers and the mental Health support team. All of
our clinicians are supported by a well organised and efficient administrative
team.
Our GP partners
are engaged in roles including the PCN (Clinical Directorship), PCN Cancer Leadership, GP Appraisers, and Education with
a GP Training Program Director, 4 GP Trainers and 1 FY2 Clinical Supervisors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Proactively identify and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition and communicate with GP
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols
- Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- 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 promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
- Undertake cervical cytology in line with local/national screening policy
- Assess wounds and deliver evidence-based care to promote wound healing
- Active role in delivering QOF targets and other practice clinical targets eg: diabetes/hypertension
Communication
- Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients receiving bad news
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognizing the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the 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 NSF, 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 practice
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, 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 and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (e.g. root-cause analysis)
- Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- 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 regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Proactively identify and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition and communicate with GP
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols
- Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- 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 promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
- Undertake cervical cytology in line with local/national screening policy
- Assess wounds and deliver evidence-based care to promote wound healing
- Active role in delivering QOF targets and other practice clinical targets eg: diabetes/hypertension
Communication
- Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients receiving bad news
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognizing the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the 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 NSF, 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 practice
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, 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 and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (e.g. root-cause analysis)
- Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- 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 regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse Minimum 2-3 years post registration experience.
- IT Literate.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
- Qualified smear taker (current)
- Competent in child immunisation
Desirable
- Diploma level qualification in the care of Asthma and COPD or/and Diabetes
- Experience of SYSTM1 clinical system.
- Experience and evidenced training in travel health and immunisations.
Experience
Essential
- Currently working in general practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Organisational Skills.
- Effective time management and being able to self-manage.
- Attention to detail maintaining accurate records as required.
- Working with confidential, sensitive information.
- Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service.
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies, local and national health policy and clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Enthusiasm and sense of humour.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care.
- Experience of working within General Practice.
- Knowledge of health & safety legislation.
- Knowledge of child protection & vulnerable adults.
- Flexible in working hours to cover holiday/sickness.
- Previous experience mentoring return to practice students and or pre-registration students.
- Experience of facilitating nurse led clinics.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse Minimum 2-3 years post registration experience.
- IT Literate.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
- Qualified smear taker (current)
- Competent in child immunisation
Desirable
- Diploma level qualification in the care of Asthma and COPD or/and Diabetes
- Experience of SYSTM1 clinical system.
- Experience and evidenced training in travel health and immunisations.
Experience
Essential
- Currently working in general practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Organisational Skills.
- Effective time management and being able to self-manage.
- Attention to detail maintaining accurate records as required.
- Working with confidential, sensitive information.
- Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service.
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies, local and national health policy and clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Enthusiasm and sense of humour.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care.
- Experience of working within General Practice.
- Knowledge of health & safety legislation.
- Knowledge of child protection & vulnerable adults.
- Flexible in working hours to cover holiday/sickness.
- Previous experience mentoring return to practice students and or pre-registration students.
- Experience of facilitating nurse led clinics.
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).