Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION PRACTICE NURSE
JOB SUMMARY: The Practice Nurse will work as part of Meon Health Practice providing Personal Medical Services to the patients of the Practice across 3 sites. They will undertake and develop the care of patients including triage, treatment, preventative care, screening, and patient health education.
Reports to: Lead Nurse
Accountable to: Managing Director
KEY TASKS / RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical Practice
Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being.
Organise and co-ordinate the provisions of nursing services for the practice.
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.
To undertake venepuncture and handling of specimens
To carry out electrocardiography (ECGs)
To provide wound care and renew dressings for patients as appropriate
To undertake childhood immunisations
To undertake cervical cytology screening
To provide travel vaccinations and advice
To carry out New Patient Health Checks
Contraception
Vaccinations
Chronic Disease Management: Special interest/responsibilities e.g. in Asthma/COPD/Diabetes or Coronary Heart Disease and Contraception
To carry out examinations, offer advice and treatment of common minor ailments e.g. eye treatments, common skin conditions, minor childhood illnesses, respiratory tract infections (all to protocols agreed by the practice)
To provide any other nursing treatments to patients as necessary
Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
Assist GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
Ensure accurate details of treatments (where applicable) are recorded in the patients notes.
Ensure accurate data entries are made on the computer record of any patient contact such as consultations, telephone advice and clinical facts e.g. blood pressures, peak flows, cervical status, vaccinations, and immunisations.
Clean and Sterilise equipment as necessary.
Maintaining stock and ordering if necessary
Attend any Nurse meetings as required
At all times maintain accurate records
Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
COMMUNICATION
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
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
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 patients consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence based care
- Attend and participate in nurse practice meetings
- Assist in the formulation of practice strategy and policy
- Manage and assess risk within the areas responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training
- Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
STATUTORY AND MANDATORY TRAINING
- The Practice will assess the requirements for Statutory and Mandatory training for all new staff prior to commencement and aims to ensure that all Statutory and Mandatory training requirements are completed during the first 2 weeks of commencement.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS
- The Practice is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults within its care. As an employee you are accountable to ensure that you know how to respond when you are concerned for the safety of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. The Practice will support you in this process by providing training, support and advice.
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- All employees are expected to follow consistently high standards in the prevention and control of infection, especially with reference to hand hygiene, adherence to dress/uniform code and for clinical staff all procedures involving aseptic technique. Participate in mandatory training and annual updates. Protecting patients from infection is everyones responsibility.
SMOKE-FREE POLICY
- The Practice operates a Smoke-free policy. This means that smoking is not permitted anywhere within any of the premises. In the interests of promoting responsible healthcare all staff are to refrain from smoking when off-site in uniform or wearing an identifying badge in any public place.
CONFIDENTIALITY
- In the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information of a personal and/or clinical nature, including information relating to the Practice, its clients, patients, employees and other parties.
You must not use such information for your own benefit nor disclose it to other persons without the consent of the Practice and the party concerned unless required to do so by law. This applies both during and after the termination of your employment. Any breach of confidentiality during employment may be regarded as serious misconduct and could lead to summary dismissal
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974
- This post is subject to an exception order under the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This stipulates that all previous convictions, including those that are spent must be declared. Previous convictions will not necessarily preclude an individual from employment but must be declared in writing at the appropriate stage during the recruitment process.
DATA PROTECTION
- As your employer, The Practice needs to keep information about you for purposes connected with your employment. The sort of information we will hold includes information for payroll purposes, references, contact names and addresses and records relating to your career with The Practice. These uses are covered by our notification with the Information Commissioners Office under the Data Protection Act 1998.
The information which we hold will be for our management and administrative use only but we may need to disclose some information we hold about you to relevant third parties (e.g. Inland Revenue).
RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY
- As an employee, you are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create or use as part of you work within The Practice and they remain the property of The Practice. This includes patient, financial, personal and administrative records, whether paper based or on computer. All such records are considered public records and you have a legal duty of confidence to all service users. All staff have a responsibility to ensure information quality standards are achieved.
INFORMATION SECURITY
- Under the provisions of the Data Protection act, it is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that all personal data relating to patients and members of staff, whether held in manual or electronic format, is kept secure at all times. Computer passwords must not be shared either between systems or users. The Practice may monitor e-mail messages, any files stored on the networks or on equipment and usage of the Internet, NHS.net and computer systems, irrespective of whether these relate to trust or personal use.
Access and usage of The Practice computers must be in accordance with The Practice policy.
