Job summary
Practice Nurse Band 6 / 7 Full or Part time flexible working available
We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our team. Hours of work can be flexible we can offer Full time or Part time hours the post will be mainly at our Kensington Site (Edge Lane) and Marybone site (Vauxhall Road). Long term condition management and practice nurse duties is essential.
Salary and Annual leave is in line with Agenda for Change and will be a Band 6 or 7 depending on qualifications and experience.
For Further information regarding this post please contact our Nurse Manager:
Joanne David, Joanne.david@livgp.nhs.uk 07930689348.
Brownlow Health is a dynamic and forward thinking organisation which provides health care to a diverse practice population across six sites within the heart of Liverpool city Centre.Our services include our nurse homeless team, student health, frailty and cancer support. We are also an Enhanced Training Practice so actively support student nurses and GP registrars.
We are a high achieving practice, having attained outstanding in our last CQC inspection.
Although not required by law we recommend that all staff have received all Covid vaccinations.
Interviews to be held on 13th July 2022
Main duties of the job
Band 6
- Clinical leadership
- Clinical skills e.g. cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- I.T
skills
Band 7
- Clinical leadership skills
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- High level communication skills
- Ability to communicate difficult information to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- I.T skills
- Ability to undertake audit
- Research knowledge and understanding#
For further information, please review Job Descriptions.
Other job locations:
Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY
Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL
26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL
2 Vauxhall Road Liverpool L3 2BG
70 Pembroke Place Liverpool L69 3GF
About us
Brownlow prides itself in being an
exceptional employer. We have a dedicated staff wellbeing team and offer
numerous staff benefits and incentives including protected study leave with
financial allowance and enhanced annual leave for 100% attendance. You will
receive a 6-month mentorship/induction package and following this will have the
option for some home working should you wish to if appropriate for your role.
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:
individuals with linguistic diversity, 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.
Extended access will form part of your contracted hours.
Job description
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.
________________________________________________________
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.
Principal Responsibilities:
Able to undertake complex general
practice nursing interventions for a wide range of general practice issues and
teach and develop other staff to enhance their practice to manage future situations.
This will entail being able to demonstrate not only practical knowledge but
also a critical understanding of the range of theories and principles that
underpin the general practice nursing approach.
Assess capacity for informed
consent and support other staff to develop this skill.
Highly developed specialist
knowledge and understanding of LTCs, health behaviour and interventions to
improve health outcomes, including the use of technologies to support patients
at home.
Advanced knowledge and skills in
therapeutics to prescribe effective pharmacological and non- pharmacological
approaches for the management of LTCs and assess patient concordance.
Is able to respectfully challenge
practice, systems and policies in an objective and constructive manner.
Participate in opportunities to
influence national and local policy.
Is able to develop, deliver and
evaluate training and education packages, for individual and groups, across a
broad range of general practice nursing needs and in collaboration with other
disciplines and agencies to facilitate inter-professional/agency learning.
Able to display originality of
thought and utilise this in innovative service development and delivery and safe
implementation of new policies and guidelines for practice.
Please see Band 7 Job Description attached for more information.
Job description
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.
________________________________________________________
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.
Principal Responsibilities:
Able to undertake complex general
practice nursing interventions for a wide range of general practice issues and
teach and develop other staff to enhance their practice to manage future situations.
This will entail being able to demonstrate not only practical knowledge but
also a critical understanding of the range of theories and principles that
underpin the general practice nursing approach.
Assess capacity for informed
consent and support other staff to develop this skill.
Highly developed specialist
knowledge and understanding of LTCs, health behaviour and interventions to
improve health outcomes, including the use of technologies to support patients
at home.
Advanced knowledge and skills in
therapeutics to prescribe effective pharmacological and non- pharmacological
approaches for the management of LTCs and assess patient concordance.
Is able to respectfully challenge
practice, systems and policies in an objective and constructive manner.
Participate in opportunities to
influence national and local policy.
Is able to develop, deliver and
evaluate training and education packages, for individual and groups, across a
broad range of general practice nursing needs and in collaboration with other
disciplines and agencies to facilitate inter-professional/agency learning.
Able to display originality of
thought and utilise this in innovative service development and delivery and safe
implementation of new policies and guidelines for practice.
Please see Band 7 Job Description attached for more information.
Person Specification
Band 6 Criteria
Essential
- Registered Part 1 NMC
- NMC Mentorship Qualification
- Educated to degree Level or equivalent experience
- Successful completion of post registration accredited foundation course in general practice nursing at level 6 or 7 and able to meet RCGP Practice Nurse competencies .
- Experience of working within the NHS.
- Experience of nurse led management of long term conditions
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit Experience
- Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Ability to identify the determinants of health in the local area
- Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance, confidentiality, data protection and Information Governance
- Knowledge of the safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply these
- Clinical leadership
- Clinical skills e.g cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- I.T skills
- A complete finisher.
- Resilience and drive
- Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
- Flexibility
- Self-starter
- Resourceful
- Strong facilitating skills
- Calm and resolute under pressure.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
- Effective delegator
- Political awareness.
- Full driving licence.
Desirable
- NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification Practice Nurse
Band 7 Criteria
Essential
- Registered Part 1 NMC
- NMC Mentorship Qualification
- Independent / supplementary nursing prescribing V300
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Advanced Nurse Practice in managing LTC
- Experience of working within the NHS.
- Knowledge of the local and National health policy and wider health economy
- Knowledge of clinical governance, confidentiality, data protection and information governance in primary care
- Knowledge of safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply them
- Autonomous practitioner
- Experience of compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Management of patient with long term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical leadership skills
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- High level communication skills
- Ability to communicate difficult information to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- I.T skills
- Ability to undertake audit
- Research knowledge and understanding
- A complete finisher.
- Resilience and drive
- Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
- Flexibility
- Self-starter
- Resourceful
- Strong facilitating skills
- Calm and resolute under pressure.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
- Effective delegator
- Strong commitment to public services.
- Full driving licence
Desirable
- MSc in Nursing Studies
- Physical assessment and clinical examination skills
- Leadership in quality initiates such as clinical benchmarking
Person Specification
Band 6 Criteria
Essential
- Registered Part 1 NMC
- NMC Mentorship Qualification
- Educated to degree Level or equivalent experience
- Successful completion of post registration accredited foundation course in general practice nursing at level 6 or 7 and able to meet RCGP Practice Nurse competencies .
- Experience of working within the NHS.
- Experience of nurse led management of long term conditions
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit Experience
- Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Ability to identify the determinants of health in the local area
- Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance, confidentiality, data protection and Information Governance
- Knowledge of the safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply these
- Clinical leadership
- Clinical skills e.g cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- I.T skills
- A complete finisher.
- Resilience and drive
- Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
- Flexibility
- Self-starter
- Resourceful
- Strong facilitating skills
- Calm and resolute under pressure.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
- Effective delegator
- Political awareness.
- Full driving licence.
Desirable
- NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification Practice Nurse
Band 7 Criteria
Essential
- Registered Part 1 NMC
- NMC Mentorship Qualification
- Independent / supplementary nursing prescribing V300
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Advanced Nurse Practice in managing LTC
- Experience of working within the NHS.
- Knowledge of the local and National health policy and wider health economy
- Knowledge of clinical governance, confidentiality, data protection and information governance in primary care
- Knowledge of safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply them
- Autonomous practitioner
- Experience of compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Management of patient with long term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical leadership skills
- Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- High level communication skills
- Ability to communicate difficult information to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- I.T skills
- Ability to undertake audit
- Research knowledge and understanding
- A complete finisher.
- Resilience and drive
- Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
- Flexibility
- Self-starter
- Resourceful
- Strong facilitating skills
- Calm and resolute under pressure.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
- Effective delegator
- Strong commitment to public services.
- Full driving licence
Desirable
- MSc in Nursing Studies
- Physical assessment and clinical examination skills
- Leadership in quality initiates such as clinical benchmarking
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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