Practice Nurse

Job 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.

Facilitation of Learning:

Actively contributing to a variety of professional networks and sharing learning from these:

Development of effective team systems for on-going supervision and promotion of clinical reflection for all staff, preceptor ship programmes and mentorship.

Leadership & Management:

Clinical leadership of the team, recognising the stressors encountered in general practice nursing and developing systems to ensure team members continue to build resilience.

Work effectively across professional and agency boundaries, actively involving and respecting others contributions.

Role modelling of the values expected in Compassion in Practice (2014) and the values and behaviours of effective leaders.

Enhanced and advanced general practice nursing clinical expertise to guide the nursing team in the management of patients with complex needs.

Awareness and application of appropriate legislation that informs nursing and healthcare delivery.

Ability to work independently but also to co-ordinate, delegate and supervise team members for a designated group of patients.

Undertaking performance management when appropriate. Management of the nursing team within ethical and policy frameworks and knowledge and application of human resource law to enable effective staff management.

Ensuring care and service delivery meets quality requirements but be actively involved in quality improvement strategies and service development innovations.

Please see job description for full details.

If you are successful at interview and are registered with any of the Brownlow or CLPCN sites, you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

We require applicants whose native language is not English to demonstrate their competence in the English language. This can be demonstrated by:

- Providing Certification of English proficiency

- During interview should you be invited to attend

Although we allow for some remote working (depending on the role) we want to make you aware that you will need to be based on-site in one of the Practices to carry out your duties. We would also like to state that you will need to reside in Liverpool (or within the near vicinity).

Other job locations:

Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY

Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

155 Edge Lane Edge Hill Liverpool L7 2PF

70 Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L69 3GF

Qualifications

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 .

Desirable

• NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification, Practice Nurse

Attributes and Behaviours

Essential

• 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.
• Providing Certification of English proficiency

Experience

Essential

• 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

Skills

Essential

• 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

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).