Job summary
Due to in house career progression, we are seeking a Practice Nurse
to join our team.
We are searching for someone to work with us for up to 18 hours per week from November 2021, who has flexibility to cover additional hours during holidays and
sickness cover.
We are ideally looking for someone who has some General Practice experience (cervical cytology, chronic disease management, childhood immunisations) or
Primary Care experience and knowledge of travel vaccinations and an interest in
Respiratory, would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
Working
in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide
assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to
patients.
The
post-holder will work with reference to Practice agreed protocols and
guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in
participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.
The post-holder will have the required level of
training and competence and will work within patient group directions (PGD) where
these are available.
About us
Latchford Medical Centre is a small, friendly, PMS Practice with 7,000 patients.
Latchford Medical Centre has a low turnover of staff who all work hard for our Patients and their Carers.
As an established Training Practice all team members are expected to encourage and support all our students ranging from GP Registrars and FY2s to student nurses and Administrators.
Remuneration is dependent on skill and experience.
Please email your CV and covering letter by Friday 17th October to katy.taberner@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and
Responsibilities:
Management of Chronic
Disease
- Identifying
significant abnormalities
- Diagnosis,
monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these
as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals
Therapeutic Monitoring
- Checking
compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic
patient-centred approach
- Recognising
abnormalities
- Identifying the
impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as
appropriate.
Wound Care and
Management
- Assessing &
managing routine wounds including trauma
Patient Health Checks
- Identifying
significant abnormalities
- Obtaining
appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and
identifying appropriate health promotion issues
- Working with
patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential
health problems are identified
Risk Assessment
- Recognising
issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs;
domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior
patients; social problems)
Health Screening
- Recognising
issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and
mens health, sexual health, older people)
- Undertaking
monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
- Providing in
depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the
post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on
management plans.
Travel Health
- Administering
injections and providing guidance in accordance with Local Guidelines
& Travax
- Identifying
problems
- Provision of
specialist and evidence based support to the team.
Immunisation (Adult
and Child)
- Administering
appropriate immunisation via PGD & PSD
- Working with
patients with more complex immunisation issues.
First Contact
- Working
independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/
recommendations as appropriate.
Minor operations
- Assisting the general
practitioner.
Ear Care
- Providing routine
ear care, including syringing using Propulse ear syringe
Mental Health
- Screening Chronic
Disease patients for depression
- Communicating
with key workers
- Administering
appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.
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 assist in
promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as
defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- 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
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy
and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting
potential risks identified.
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:
In
addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses
and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development
requirements for PREP are met, 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and
Responsibilities:
Management of Chronic
Disease
- Identifying
significant abnormalities
- Diagnosis,
monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these
as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals
Therapeutic Monitoring
- Checking
compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic
patient-centred approach
- Recognising
abnormalities
- Identifying the
impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as
appropriate.
Wound Care and
Management
- Assessing &
managing routine wounds including trauma
Patient Health Checks
- Identifying
significant abnormalities
- Obtaining
appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and
identifying appropriate health promotion issues
- Working with
patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential
health problems are identified
Risk Assessment
- Recognising
issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs;
domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior
patients; social problems)
Health Screening
- Recognising
issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and
mens health, sexual health, older people)
- Undertaking
monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
- Providing in
depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the
post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on
management plans.
Travel Health
- Administering
injections and providing guidance in accordance with Local Guidelines
& Travax
- Identifying
problems
- Provision of
specialist and evidence based support to the team.
Immunisation (Adult
and Child)
- Administering
appropriate immunisation via PGD & PSD
- Working with
patients with more complex immunisation issues.
First Contact
- Working
independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/
recommendations as appropriate.
Minor operations
- Assisting the general
practitioner.
Ear Care
- Providing routine
ear care, including syringing using Propulse ear syringe
Mental Health
- Screening Chronic
Disease patients for depression
- Communicating
with key workers
- Administering
appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.
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 assist in
promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as
defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- 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
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy
and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting
potential risks identified.
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:
In
addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses
and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development
requirements for PREP are met, 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
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Qualified in Cytology
- Qualified in Phlebotomy
- Qualified in vaccinations and immunisations
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a nursing team
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to provide quality care
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Basic IT skills
- Awareness of blood-borne viruses
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Qualified in Cytology
- Qualified in Phlebotomy
- Qualified in vaccinations and immunisations
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a nursing team
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to provide quality care
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Basic IT skills
- Awareness of blood-borne viruses
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.
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UK Registration
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