Practice Nurse

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of a practice nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health to implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients that promote health and well-being and ensure the appropriate maintenance and use of chronic disease registers. referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required to maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation To ensure read codes are used effectively by all members of the nursing team

To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence.

To oversee the provision of wound care services to patients To co-ordinate the provision of travel medicine services

To request pathology services as necessary

To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children

To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies

Carry out the following procedures

Wound care including compression dressings

Removal of sutures, staples

ECG's

Dopplers both manual and automatic

Venepuncture

spirometry

Ear syringe

LTC reviews Diabetic, COPD, Asthma, etc

record accurate notes and use the correct templates provided

Child immunisations

Travel vaccinations

Family planning including Pill checks

Cervical smears

Competent use of EMIS and Docman

Clear polite manner

Work well as part of a team and autonomously

Punctual and committed

sensitive and empathetic in difficult situations

Flexibility to work outside core hours

Qualifications

Essential

• Person specification Practice Nurse
• Qualifications Essential
• Registered nurse
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease Management)
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of leading a nursing team in a primary care environment
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Experience of working autonomously
• Experience of infection prevention and control measures
• Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
• New patient medicals
• Chaperone procedure
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Travel medicine
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Asthma
• Spirometry
• CHD
• Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
• Womens health (cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
• Understand the importance of evidence based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
• Understanding of infection prevention and control measures
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational health clearance
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation

Desirable

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• EMIS user skills
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Polite and confident
• Flexible and co-operative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Effectively utilise resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

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).