General Practice Nurse
OAK TREE SURGERY & PENSILVA HEALTH CENTRE
The closing date is 16 October 2024
Job summary
The post holder
is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to
the whole practice population. As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible for delivering patient care, supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health promotion and screening activities and demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical
decision-making. They will work collaboratively with the whole general practice
team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and
procedures.
Main duties of the job
Your key responsibility is to provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for our patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the health care team.The Practice population has a high prevalence of chronic diseases, therefore the ability to work under pressure, prioritise, and work flexibly as a part of a team whilst remaining resilient is essential.
About us
Our aim is to provide high quality healthcare for all and to be leaders in the health and wellbeing of our staff and patients.
Our philosophy is to treat people how we would want to be treated. To us every patient matters.
We are a large, innovative practice which enables us to offer a wide range of additional services to our patients, including minor injuries, minor surgery and contraceptive services.
We have approximately 16,700 patients across two sites and have a large practice area covering many surrounding towns and villages. Both sites are modern, purpose built buildings with ample car parking facilities for patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the highest standards of care are
provided for patients
- To manage and develop a clinical acute and
chronic case load, dealing with presenting patients needs in a primary care
setting
- Review medication for therapeutic
effectiveness, appropriate to patients needs and in accordance with
evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene
appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations,
including initiation of effective emergency care
- To deliver a high standard of patient care
using specialist practice Nurse skills
- Attend and contribute to relevant internal and
external meetings as required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team
meetings and gold standard framework meetings
- Maintain a personal progress and training plan
to keep up-to date with current thinking and developments as well as
identifying own training deficiencies and attending suitable courses as
appropriate
- Promote evidence based practice through use of
the latest research based guidelines
- Monitor the effectiveness of their own
clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of peer
audit and review
- Maintain professional registration
- Work within the latest NMC Code of
Professional Conduct
- Ensure collection and maintenance of
statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.
- Record accurate consultation data in patients
records in accordance with NMC guidance and other standards
- Keep up to date with pertinent health policy
and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for
implementation
- Work collaboratively with colleagues both
internally and externally
- Use technology and appropriate software
packages as an aid to the planning, implementation and monitoring of care,
presenting and communicating information
- Act as a role model in the observance of
equality and diversity good practice
- Consulting
for minor health problems in Practice Nurse Minor Illness Surgeries and
obtaining prescriptions where necessary. The On Call Team will always be
available for advice and will see patients if necessary
- Administer
appropriate vaccines to adults and children according to up to date
Department of Health guidelines including vaccinations for foreign travel
- Family
Planning advice and help including checking of caps and IUCDs
- Monitoring
and care of post menopausal women including those taking HRT
- Cervical
cytology
- Giving
health promotion advice to patients during consultations as appropriate
- Wound
care / ulcer care
- Removal
of Sutures
- New
Patient Medicals
- Urinalysis
- ECG
recording
- Blood
Pressure measurements
- Asthma/Peak
Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Chaperoning
and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another
clinician
- Assisting with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting
pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Maintaining
stocks of medicines, drugs, vaccines, dressings and equipment and
re-ordering as necessary
- Any
other delegated duties appropriate to the post (this list is not exhaustive and can be
subject to change).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the highest standards of care are
provided for patients
- To manage and develop a clinical acute and
chronic case load, dealing with presenting patients needs in a primary care
setting
- Review medication for therapeutic
effectiveness, appropriate to patients needs and in accordance with
evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene
appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations,
including initiation of effective emergency care
- To deliver a high standard of patient care
using specialist practice Nurse skills
- Attend and contribute to relevant internal and
external meetings as required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team
meetings and gold standard framework meetings
- Maintain a personal progress and training plan
to keep up-to date with current thinking and developments as well as
identifying own training deficiencies and attending suitable courses as
appropriate
- Promote evidence based practice through use of
the latest research based guidelines
- Monitor the effectiveness of their own
clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of peer
audit and review
- Maintain professional registration
- Work within the latest NMC Code of
Professional Conduct
- Ensure collection and maintenance of
statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.
- Record accurate consultation data in patients
records in accordance with NMC guidance and other standards
- Keep up to date with pertinent health policy
and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for
implementation
- Work collaboratively with colleagues both
internally and externally
- Use technology and appropriate software
packages as an aid to the planning, implementation and monitoring of care,
presenting and communicating information
- Act as a role model in the observance of
equality and diversity good practice
- Consulting
for minor health problems in Practice Nurse Minor Illness Surgeries and
obtaining prescriptions where necessary. The On Call Team will always be
available for advice and will see patients if necessary
- Administer
appropriate vaccines to adults and children according to up to date
Department of Health guidelines including vaccinations for foreign travel
- Family
Planning advice and help including checking of caps and IUCDs
- Monitoring
and care of post menopausal women including those taking HRT
- Cervical
cytology
- Giving
health promotion advice to patients during consultations as appropriate
- Wound
care / ulcer care
- Removal
of Sutures
- New
Patient Medicals
- Urinalysis
- ECG
recording
- Blood
Pressure measurements
- Asthma/Peak
Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Chaperoning
and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another
clinician
- Assisting with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting
pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Maintaining
stocks of medicines, drugs, vaccines, dressings and equipment and
re-ordering as necessary
- Any
other delegated duties appropriate to the post (this list is not exhaustive and can be
subject to change).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified and Registered Nurse.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Team player with excellent communication skills able to follow protocols, working with the team to improve protocols as necessary.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a Nursing Team
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
- These are desirable as for the right candidate, we are happy to provide the training needed for nurses who are currently working in the community teams or secondary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified and Registered Nurse.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Team player with excellent communication skills able to follow protocols, working with the team to improve protocols as necessary.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a Nursing Team
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
- These are desirable as for the right candidate, we are happy to provide the training needed for nurses who are currently working in the community teams or secondary care.
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
