Practice Nurse

Job responsibilities

Patient care

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred by a GP. This will usually be in surgery but occasional home visits will also be required.

Have responsibility for individual patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations made.

Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary.

Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing personal recall systems suitable to the practice needs. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes.

Undertake general nursing examinations and treatments for patients healthcare needs such as wound care, sutures removal, electrocardiogram (ECGs), Cytology, Ear Care.

Maintaining efficient liaison with all areas of the Primary Care Team and other agencies to assure continuity of care where necessary.

Health Promotion

Undertake basic assessment of the needs of patients including men and womens health screening and education. Coordinate the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including diagnostic tests, treatment plans, health promotion and prevention.

Provide smears following current guidelines and manage follow up system.

Administer depoprovera injections following current guidelines

Be able to assess critically and re-evaluate the clinical situation as the patients condition or needs change.

Team work

Assist in clinical audit and the setting up and monitoring of standards of care.

Assist and teach others in clinical setting, including unqualified staff

Work effectively in the team.

Information and IT

Facilitate good communication systems within the practice with the use of computerised messages.

Extrapolate information received by outside agencies and bring to the notice of all clinicians wherever necessary.

Undertake all training and attend any computer data input and retrieval meetings deemed necessary by the Practice Manager to manage the clinical system effectively.

Personal Development

Attend relevant training updates as required to maintain clinical effectiveness

Maintain continuous professional development records in keeping with the requirement of NMC.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Ability to work core hours
• Flexibility for cover

Desirable

• Basic IT skills

Experience

Essential

• Qualifications and experience including details of specialised knowledge and skills required:
• Minimum 2 years post registration.
• Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice.
• Willingness to learn and acquire new skills.
• Evidence of appropriate knowledge base.
• Demonstrate an understanding of audit.
• competent computer skills.
• Understanding of health and safety issues.
• Special skills/abilities:
• Good interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
• Evidence of problem-solving and decision making skills.
• Good team player and ability to get on with others at all levels.
• Ability to be reflective, accept criticism and act constructively.

Desirable

• Basic/advanced certificate of life support.
• Uses initiative.
• Willingness to undertake further study.
• Chronic disease management qualifications
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the NHS
• Knowledge of SystmOne
• Knowledge of Quality Outcome Framework (QOF)
• Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner
• Evidence of Contraception training
• Immunisation training

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse with current PIN at time of application.

Desirable

• Qualified to offer the management of chronic diseases
• Qualified to offer Cervical screening certificate
• Qualified to offer childhood immunisation

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).