Job responsibilities
Job Title: General Practice Nurse
Grade: 6
Hours: Full/Part Time Location:
Brownlow Health
Accountable to: Partners at Brownlow
Health
Responsible to: Nurse Manager
Job Summary:
This role requires consolidation of
specialist knowledge and skills in general practice nursing demonstrating a
depth of knowledge, understanding and competence that supports evidenced informed,
complex, autonomous and independent decision-making, and care in general
practice and related settings. Those new to this role will need a period of
preceptor ship. This role will require personal resilience, management,
clinical leadership and supervision and mentorship of others in the general
practice nursing team and providing an effective learning environment for staff
and students in the wider team. The role will require an innovative approach in
supporting and developing new models and strategies for service delivery,
usually incorporating inter-professional and inter-agency approaches to monitor
and improve care. General Practice Nurses deliver care to the practice
population, but also need to have an understanding of the public health profile
and population needs in order to be proactive in ensuring services are, as far
as possible, matched to need.
Principal Responsibilities:
This role requires the ability to
work independently and collaboratively, using freedom to exercise judgement
about actions while accepting professional accountability and responsibility.
This requires:
- Enhanced critical thinking and ability to critically analyse a
broad range of policies, literature and evidence to support clinical
practice.
- Ability to analyse service provision in relation to both quality
assurance and quality monitoring, and to focus on patient outcomes
wherever possible.
- Strong clinical leadership of the team and clarity of expectation
of team members with respect to quality of care delivery and values
inherent in nursing practice. Emotional intelligence to recognise
pressures on staff and the development of mechanisms to support and
develop staff to recognise the impact of caring for people who may be
experiencing complex healthcare issues.
- Enhanced knowledge of the local community and needs and resources
available, and the ability to signpost people to appropriate resources.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others to meet local public
health needs for individuals, groups and the wider community. Build strong
relationships with the secondary care teams, particularly for patients
receiving shared care, to ensure an effective flow of patient information
to ensure high-quality care.
- Ability to reflect in action and be actively engaged with the NMC
revalidation process both for themselves and for others.
Please see Band 6 Job Description
attached for more information.
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Job Title: Senior General Practice
Nurse
Grade: 7
Hours: Full/Part Time
Location: Brownlow Health
Accountable to: Partners at Brownlow
Health
Responsible to: Nurse Manager
Job Summary:
This role is to consolidate skills of
critical analysis and evaluation to enable knowledge pertaining to complex,
contemporary general practice nursing practice to be critiqued. Senior General
Practice Nurses must be able to use new knowledge in innovative ways and take
responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes
unpredictable environments. They must recognise the complexity of operating in
multi-professional and multi-agency environments and the need for
interdependent decision-making and support staff to feel confident and
competent in delivering care within these contexts. At this level the clinician
will be highly experienced in their field and either continues to develop this
expertise for managing complex cases or supporting less experienced staff, or
may have more management responsibilities for the general practice team whilst
retaining a clinical component to their role. They will be expected to provide
training, support and supervision to staff and to participate at local and
national levels in relation to general practice nursing.
Brownlow
is an organisation that is committed to equality and diversity, and we strive
for our workforce to be representative and inclusive of the complex and diverse
community, which we are proud to serve.
With
this commitment in mind, we actively encourage individuals who self-identify as
having protected characteristics to apply for this role. We are particularly
keen to encourage applications from: women and gender minorities; members of
the LGBTQ+ community; members of black, minority ethnic, and minority faith
groups; and from those who are disabled and / or neurodiverse.
We
are mindful that we may not always be aware of structural and systemic factors,
which might discourage or prevent certain minority groups and marginalised
populations from applying to join our team. If you are aware that any such
barriers do exist, please let us know so that we can work to overcome and
dismantle these