Lead Practice Nurse
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Job summary
Part Time Lead Practice Nurse (RGN)
The post holder must possess a current NMC PIN and maintain current membership of the Royal College of Nursing.
Are you an experienced Practice Nurse looking to take the leap into the world of management? Perhaps you are currently in a lead role and would like a new challenge and help us shape and develop our nursing team?
If you have a sense of humour and are committed to working with out fun and hardworking team, you will fit in well and we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The focus of the role is ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to our patient population. The post holder will be the nurse team leader at Testvale Surgery and will also be able to work as part of the whole general practice as well as autonomously, demonstrating strong professional decision making skills and clinical expertise. They will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of evidence-based nursing care to the Practice population and will actively support the Practice management team in developing and reviewing clinical policy.
The Lead Practice Nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as Infection Control, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease management.
We like to empower our workforce, supporting you to develop to your fullest potential, as well as partnering with patients to take shared responsibility for their healthcare.
About us
Testvale Surgery has its roots in Totton going back over a century and since 1987 has been at our present location on Salisbury Road. We are passionate about the care we provide for our patients and always try to offer convenient appointments and the highest quality care. We have well-established charitable support in the Friends of Testvale Surgery, who help us to improve the care we provide for our patients.
The premises have gradually expanded to provide a fully equipped and staff service for primary medical care. We comprise seven partner GPs and two salaried GPs and a compliment of seven members of the Nursing, Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomists, as well as a admin support team.
We are an established training practice and regularly have medical students and GP registrars.
Details
Date posted
04 August 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience Discussed at interview
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A1986-23-0006
Job locations
12 Salisbury Road
Totton
Southampton
SO40 3PY
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job descriptionThe post holder must possess a current NMC PIN and maintain current membership of the Royal College of Nursing.
JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will be the nurse team leader at Testvale Surgery and will also be able to work autonomously, demonstrating strong professional decision-making skills and clinical expertise. They are responsible for ensuring the delivery of evidence-based nursing care to the Practice population and will actively support the Practice Management team in developing and reviewing clinical policy. They will provide leadership to the nursing team to ensure the effective and efficient provision of Primary Health Care services.
ROLE PURPOSE
To work as an autonomous practitioner providing care to patients within the primary care setting using specialist practice nurse skills To provide clinical leadership within the nursing team To develop the clinical staff within their roles ensuring appropriate mentoring and support. To organise and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services for the Practice To work collaboratively with the whole practice team ensuring that the care delivered to the Practice population is relevant, responsive, of the highest standard and is clinically effective and efficient To work within the framework of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice to ensure that the best possible care is given to the Practice population.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITES
- Maintain patient confidentiality and work within practice guidelines and protocols at all times
- Demonstrate clinical excellence in practice nursing, adhering to national and local policies/guidelines/protocols and Patient Group Directives (PGDs)
- Initiate and arrange a methodical assessment of patient and service needs
- Work within an integrated and multidisciplinary team environment using appropriate referral pathways
- Using clinical software available, ensure targets and quality indicators in the new GMS contract are met
- To be aware of health and safety issues affecting staff, patients and visitors and keep up to date with health and safety training
- Decide on appropriate wound dressing for individual patients and recognise when a patient requires a change of dressing or further intervention e.g. referral to GP/ /podiatry etc
- Maintain and record accurate patient records on the computer
- Give health prevention advice to patients with wound infections, non-healing wounds, healthy eating and stop smoking
To make and accept referrals within the team as appropriate
Clinical Duties
Provide clinical excellence in all treatment room areas of routine general practice nursing as part of GMS and national guidelines
Opportunistically promote a healthy lifestyle and counsel patients as necessary, enabling them to make effective lifestyle changes
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care pathways to meet the needs of individuals and groups within an agreed policy, PGDs, guidelines, national service frameworks and identifying the need for referral to others
Assist and chaperone GPs, when necessary, with the examination and treatment of patients
To ensure resuscitation/anaphylactic shock equipment is safely maintained in your room
To maintain adequate stock control of dressings etc.
Make professional autonomous decisions for which the post holder is accountable for and to provide and promote safe, effective and cost-efficient individualised patient care
Where necessary evaluate patients test results in conjunction with the patient and their GP and ensure the appropriate course of treatment is initiated.
Communicate effectively with patients/families/carers regarding information about their care and considering the equality and diversity needs and preferences of said population.
Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records using the practice clinic system (EMIS)
Protect and promote the health and well-being of patients, their relatives and carers through advice, education, screening and signposting to appropriate agencies when required
Undertake clinics and offer focused lifestyle advice in line with local, national guidance and quality outcome framework indicators
Manage programmes of care for patients with long term conditions and other practice nurse duties by providing and evaluation care under agreed guidelines and patient group directives. These may include but not exhaustive of:
o Diabetes
o Cardiovascular disease
o Asthma, COPD
o Contraception and Sexual Health
o Adult and childhood immunisations
o Learning disabilities
o Difficult to reach service users
o Dementia
o Cervical Screening
o Anticoagulation monitoring
o Wound Care
o Travel Health
Apply infection control measures in all areas of Practice.
Signpost effectively to other clinicians and agencies when appropriate.
Administration and other duties
Professional and Managerial Role
Understand own role and scope within the Practice, responding to changes
Hold regular team meetings to maintain lines of communication
Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as required
Provision and promotion of evidence-based practice
Remaining up to date with pertinent health policies, work with the practice team to consider the impact and the strategies for implementation
Monitor effectiveness of clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as clinical audit and peer reviews
To provide clinical leadership within the nursing team, directing and supporting others through relevant change and new ways of working
To develop the clinical staff within their roles, ensuring appropriate mentoring and support to maximise staff performance
To organise and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services for the Practice, to include the appropriate delegation of duties, rota, holiday, appropriate training and study leave.
Development and maintenance of relevant policies and protocols that are within the Lead Practice Nurse role responsibility, appropriate delegation of above to other personnel, also ensuring they are maintaining such policy and protocol
Line manages staff members according to the Practice organisational plan.
Work with the Head of Clinical Services to maximise all areas of income for the Practice.
Minimise expenditure for the Practice whilst ensuring high standards of care are provided Develop, deliver and maintain primary nurse led services including long term conditions, maintaining disease registers in liaison with administrative staff
Lead the Infection, prevention control within the Practice, audits are performed in a timely manner and ensuring that changes and updates are reflected in the policies.
To ensure effective communication links between IPC clinical leads, links and Facilities Manager.
Ensuring any changes to policies are cascaded accordingly to the relevant practice team.
Performance Appraisal
Provide ongoing performance management, feedback and development to their team. Conduct annual and interim appraisal meetings and completion of appraisal documentation.
Employee Relations
Taking a lead role and pro-actively manage staffing issues for them under the Practices procedures and pro-actively managing all staffing issues.
Absence Management
To actively manage all cases of absence, conducting return to work interviews and ensuring any resulting actions are taken. To undertake absence review meetings as required with the support of the Executive Manager.
Teaching and Mentoring
Promote a learning environment and assist with the planning and implementation of teaching and for staff and other health professionals, including pre- registration Student Nurses/Registrars.
Contribute to planning and implementing peer review and other educational opportunities within the Practice.
Mentor and support other staff in developing and maintaining clinical skills.
Disseminate learning and information to the relevant Practice teams
Quality
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
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards.
Public Health
To support public health campaigns.
To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Communication
To be aware of data protection issues.
To liaise effectively with other health professionals both inside and outside the organisation, with regard to accepting and making clinical referrals.
Communicate effectively with patients and relatives, considering differences in language, literacy and culture.
Training & Personal Development
To undertake all personal training required to fulfil the current job role, and all future requirements relevant to this job description.
To provide training to any identified personnel requiring instruction as identified by the Practice.
Manage own time effectively, plan and meet personal and Practice targets.
Ensure own personal development through reflection and feedback from Partners and colleagues.
Take part in a personal annual appraisal with Head of Clinical Services.
Confidentiality, Health & Safety & Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support, promote and maintain the Practices Confidentiality, Health & Safety Policy and Procedures, the Practices Infection Control Policy and Procedures andEquality & Diversity Policy.
This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job descriptionThe post holder must possess a current NMC PIN and maintain current membership of the Royal College of Nursing.
JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will be the nurse team leader at Testvale Surgery and will also be able to work autonomously, demonstrating strong professional decision-making skills and clinical expertise. They are responsible for ensuring the delivery of evidence-based nursing care to the Practice population and will actively support the Practice Management team in developing and reviewing clinical policy. They will provide leadership to the nursing team to ensure the effective and efficient provision of Primary Health Care services.
ROLE PURPOSE
To work as an autonomous practitioner providing care to patients within the primary care setting using specialist practice nurse skills To provide clinical leadership within the nursing team To develop the clinical staff within their roles ensuring appropriate mentoring and support. To organise and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services for the Practice To work collaboratively with the whole practice team ensuring that the care delivered to the Practice population is relevant, responsive, of the highest standard and is clinically effective and efficient To work within the framework of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice to ensure that the best possible care is given to the Practice population.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITES
- Maintain patient confidentiality and work within practice guidelines and protocols at all times
- Demonstrate clinical excellence in practice nursing, adhering to national and local policies/guidelines/protocols and Patient Group Directives (PGDs)
- Initiate and arrange a methodical assessment of patient and service needs
- Work within an integrated and multidisciplinary team environment using appropriate referral pathways
- Using clinical software available, ensure targets and quality indicators in the new GMS contract are met
- To be aware of health and safety issues affecting staff, patients and visitors and keep up to date with health and safety training
- Decide on appropriate wound dressing for individual patients and recognise when a patient requires a change of dressing or further intervention e.g. referral to GP/ /podiatry etc
- Maintain and record accurate patient records on the computer
- Give health prevention advice to patients with wound infections, non-healing wounds, healthy eating and stop smoking
To make and accept referrals within the team as appropriate
Clinical Duties
Provide clinical excellence in all treatment room areas of routine general practice nursing as part of GMS and national guidelines
Opportunistically promote a healthy lifestyle and counsel patients as necessary, enabling them to make effective lifestyle changes
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care pathways to meet the needs of individuals and groups within an agreed policy, PGDs, guidelines, national service frameworks and identifying the need for referral to others
Assist and chaperone GPs, when necessary, with the examination and treatment of patients
To ensure resuscitation/anaphylactic shock equipment is safely maintained in your room
To maintain adequate stock control of dressings etc.
Make professional autonomous decisions for which the post holder is accountable for and to provide and promote safe, effective and cost-efficient individualised patient care
Where necessary evaluate patients test results in conjunction with the patient and their GP and ensure the appropriate course of treatment is initiated.
Communicate effectively with patients/families/carers regarding information about their care and considering the equality and diversity needs and preferences of said population.
Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records using the practice clinic system (EMIS)
Protect and promote the health and well-being of patients, their relatives and carers through advice, education, screening and signposting to appropriate agencies when required
Undertake clinics and offer focused lifestyle advice in line with local, national guidance and quality outcome framework indicators
Manage programmes of care for patients with long term conditions and other practice nurse duties by providing and evaluation care under agreed guidelines and patient group directives. These may include but not exhaustive of:
o Diabetes
o Cardiovascular disease
o Asthma, COPD
o Contraception and Sexual Health
o Adult and childhood immunisations
o Learning disabilities
o Difficult to reach service users
o Dementia
o Cervical Screening
o Anticoagulation monitoring
o Wound Care
o Travel Health
Apply infection control measures in all areas of Practice.
Signpost effectively to other clinicians and agencies when appropriate.
Administration and other duties
Professional and Managerial Role
Understand own role and scope within the Practice, responding to changes
Hold regular team meetings to maintain lines of communication
Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as required
Provision and promotion of evidence-based practice
Remaining up to date with pertinent health policies, work with the practice team to consider the impact and the strategies for implementation
Monitor effectiveness of clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as clinical audit and peer reviews
To provide clinical leadership within the nursing team, directing and supporting others through relevant change and new ways of working
To develop the clinical staff within their roles, ensuring appropriate mentoring and support to maximise staff performance
To organise and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services for the Practice, to include the appropriate delegation of duties, rota, holiday, appropriate training and study leave.
Development and maintenance of relevant policies and protocols that are within the Lead Practice Nurse role responsibility, appropriate delegation of above to other personnel, also ensuring they are maintaining such policy and protocol
Line manages staff members according to the Practice organisational plan.
Work with the Head of Clinical Services to maximise all areas of income for the Practice.
Minimise expenditure for the Practice whilst ensuring high standards of care are provided Develop, deliver and maintain primary nurse led services including long term conditions, maintaining disease registers in liaison with administrative staff
Lead the Infection, prevention control within the Practice, audits are performed in a timely manner and ensuring that changes and updates are reflected in the policies.
To ensure effective communication links between IPC clinical leads, links and Facilities Manager.
Ensuring any changes to policies are cascaded accordingly to the relevant practice team.
Performance Appraisal
Provide ongoing performance management, feedback and development to their team. Conduct annual and interim appraisal meetings and completion of appraisal documentation.
Employee Relations
Taking a lead role and pro-actively manage staffing issues for them under the Practices procedures and pro-actively managing all staffing issues.
Absence Management
To actively manage all cases of absence, conducting return to work interviews and ensuring any resulting actions are taken. To undertake absence review meetings as required with the support of the Executive Manager.
Teaching and Mentoring
Promote a learning environment and assist with the planning and implementation of teaching and for staff and other health professionals, including pre- registration Student Nurses/Registrars.
Contribute to planning and implementing peer review and other educational opportunities within the Practice.
Mentor and support other staff in developing and maintaining clinical skills.
Disseminate learning and information to the relevant Practice teams
Quality
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
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards.
Public Health
To support public health campaigns.
To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Communication
To be aware of data protection issues.
To liaise effectively with other health professionals both inside and outside the organisation, with regard to accepting and making clinical referrals.
Communicate effectively with patients and relatives, considering differences in language, literacy and culture.
Training & Personal Development
To undertake all personal training required to fulfil the current job role, and all future requirements relevant to this job description.
To provide training to any identified personnel requiring instruction as identified by the Practice.
Manage own time effectively, plan and meet personal and Practice targets.
Ensure own personal development through reflection and feedback from Partners and colleagues.
Take part in a personal annual appraisal with Head of Clinical Services.
Confidentiality, Health & Safety & Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support, promote and maintain the Practices Confidentiality, Health & Safety Policy and Procedures, the Practices Infection Control Policy and Procedures andEquality & Diversity Policy.
This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post holder must possess a current NMC PIN and maintain current membership of the Royal College of Nursing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The post holder must possess a current NMC PIN and maintain current membership of the Royal College of Nursing.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Testvale Surgery
Address
12 Salisbury Road
Totton
Southampton
SO40 3PY
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Testvale Surgery
Address
12 Salisbury Road
Totton
Southampton
SO40 3PY
Employer's website
Employer contact details
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Details
Date posted
04 August 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience Discussed at interview
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A1986-23-0006
Job locations
12 Salisbury Road
Totton
Southampton
SO40 3PY