Job summary
Are you.
- An innovative, motivated, positive and proactive Nurse looking for a new challenge?
- Do you thrive in a fast-paced organisation with a growing team with great spirit?
- Are you comfortable making autonomous decisions while providing expert care?
An opportunity has arisen for a Practice Nurse who wants to make a difference in our patient's lives. The successful candidate will join a great team of existing Nurses & AHPs in our friendly practice.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the Practice Nurse is to deliver safe, high quality primary care nursing services to the practice population. Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and professional boundaries, the post holder will deliver primary health care interventions and care. The post holder will support service development, the safe delivery of policy and procedures, and demonstrate effective professional nurse standards, advocacy and performance.
We provide the potential to develop skills in line with the needs of the business and your personal interests
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous, and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service
About the Practice/Department/Team
Lakeside Healthcare is a new type of NHS general practice which builds upon and celebrates all that is great about traditional primary care services. We are local surgeries run by doctors, nurses and associated staff who know their patients and care deeply about the quality of health provided in their communities.
The nursing team is a well-established team with positive effective teamwork and team collaboration. This increases efficiency in patient care resulting in better patient experiences.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Responsibilities Principal Duties to include:
- Responsible for providing and delivering primary health care interventions and care effectively and efficiently.
- Working collaboratively with the multi disciplinary general practice team and other healthcare professionals to promote integrated pathways of care to meet patient needs.
- Effective communication with patients, carers, and all members of the MDT.
- Effective prioritisation and completion of daily work in line with clinical patient need and practice priorities.
Maintenance of accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes contemporary paper records and electronic patient records system.
- Actively participates and contributes to nurse team meetings.
- Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients, and carers.
- Participates in clinical audit and the implementation of changes to ways of working and or clinical practice because of findings, recommendations, and action plans.
- Proactive in improving and influencing the patient care pathway/ journey.
- Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment.
- Ensure that any complaints or incidents are identified and reported to the lead GP, Nurse Manager or Practice Manager in accordance with the organisational policy and expected professional practice.
- Monitors and orders stock levels and equipment in line with budget and lean principles.
- Responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained.
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
Duties include: -
- Providing treatment services and health education advice: including Dietary advice, blood pressure checks, urinalysis, health screening, Ear syringing, dressings, ECG, Phlebotomy, routine injections, sexual health, contraception, routine immunisations and vaccinations, removal of sutures clips, baby immunisations, assisting with the fitting of IUCD IUS, first registration checks health surveillance general health advice, assisting with minor procedures in the treatment room and acting as chaperone as required.
- Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients within agreed protocols with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.
- Working within guidelines and protocols undertake and record:
- Urinalysis and preparation of specimens for laboratory analysis
- Temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiratory rate
- Weight, height, waist circumference and Body Mass Index
- Measurement of legs for compression hosiery
- ECGs, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
- Near patient testing e.g. blood glucose, lipids and INR
- Doppler ultrasound measurement working with registered nurse.
- Measurement of airway function peak expiratory flow rate and spirometry
- Obtain venous blood samples from individuals for investigation.
- Administer medications by injection with the appropriate legal authorisation.
- Recognise health promotion opportunities and give brief, focussed lifestyle advice using motivational interviewing techniques which may include:
- Alcohol screening
- Smoking cessation
- Weight management
- Sexual health
- Undertake initial assessment of patients presenting with wounds, working within expertise to manage independently or refer to other services as necessary.
- Remove wound closure materials including sutures, clips and staples.
- Take samples for the cervical screening programme according to recognised standards.
- Provide ear care including removal of cerumen and provide education and advice.
- Administer vaccines to adults and children according to the UK immunisation schedule.
- Provide a pre-travel health service including administration of vaccines and advice after undertaking appropriate risk assessment.
- Administer prescribed therapies such as contraceptive injections, vitamin B12, and depo neuroleptic medications recognising side effects and contraindications.
- Develop and follow referral pathways for patients with specialist needs.
Minor Illness
- Support the Same Day Urgent Care services as defined by role and competence.
- Triage and treat patients wishing to see a health care professional making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team.
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
- Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.
Long term conditions: -
- Assist nurse-run long term condition clinics and carry out clinical measurements and near patient testing for patients with diabetes, asthma, and COPD in line with NICE guidance and Quality and Outcome Framework indicators which may include:
- blood sugar monitoring
- assessment of feet with appropriate risk stratification
- spirometry
- pulse oximetry
- Peak Expiratory Flow rate
- teaching inhaler technique
- assessment of breathlessness.
- Recognise signs and symptoms that may indicate undiagnosed long term conditions e.g. poor wound healing, winter cough in smokers and also factors that may indicate mental health problems and use relevant referral pathways
- Work in accordance with Practice protocols to ensure the safe and effective management of patients with Chronic Diseases.
Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures:
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
- Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with the latest NMC guidance and other pertinent standards.
- Maintain professional registration and practice in accordance with NMC requirements.
- Attend and participate in nurse meetings.
- Participate and support service improvement initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Responsibilities Principal Duties to include:
- Responsible for providing and delivering primary health care interventions and care effectively and efficiently.
- Working collaboratively with the multi disciplinary general practice team and other healthcare professionals to promote integrated pathways of care to meet patient needs.
- Effective communication with patients, carers, and all members of the MDT.
- Effective prioritisation and completion of daily work in line with clinical patient need and practice priorities.
Maintenance of accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes contemporary paper records and electronic patient records system.
- Actively participates and contributes to nurse team meetings.
- Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients, and carers.
- Participates in clinical audit and the implementation of changes to ways of working and or clinical practice because of findings, recommendations, and action plans.
- Proactive in improving and influencing the patient care pathway/ journey.
- Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment.
- Ensure that any complaints or incidents are identified and reported to the lead GP, Nurse Manager or Practice Manager in accordance with the organisational policy and expected professional practice.
- Monitors and orders stock levels and equipment in line with budget and lean principles.
- Responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained.
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
Duties include: -
- Providing treatment services and health education advice: including Dietary advice, blood pressure checks, urinalysis, health screening, Ear syringing, dressings, ECG, Phlebotomy, routine injections, sexual health, contraception, routine immunisations and vaccinations, removal of sutures clips, baby immunisations, assisting with the fitting of IUCD IUS, first registration checks health surveillance general health advice, assisting with minor procedures in the treatment room and acting as chaperone as required.
- Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients within agreed protocols with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.
- Working within guidelines and protocols undertake and record:
- Urinalysis and preparation of specimens for laboratory analysis
- Temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiratory rate
- Weight, height, waist circumference and Body Mass Index
- Measurement of legs for compression hosiery
- ECGs, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
- Near patient testing e.g. blood glucose, lipids and INR
- Doppler ultrasound measurement working with registered nurse.
- Measurement of airway function peak expiratory flow rate and spirometry
- Obtain venous blood samples from individuals for investigation.
- Administer medications by injection with the appropriate legal authorisation.
- Recognise health promotion opportunities and give brief, focussed lifestyle advice using motivational interviewing techniques which may include:
- Alcohol screening
- Smoking cessation
- Weight management
- Sexual health
- Undertake initial assessment of patients presenting with wounds, working within expertise to manage independently or refer to other services as necessary.
- Remove wound closure materials including sutures, clips and staples.
- Take samples for the cervical screening programme according to recognised standards.
- Provide ear care including removal of cerumen and provide education and advice.
- Administer vaccines to adults and children according to the UK immunisation schedule.
- Provide a pre-travel health service including administration of vaccines and advice after undertaking appropriate risk assessment.
- Administer prescribed therapies such as contraceptive injections, vitamin B12, and depo neuroleptic medications recognising side effects and contraindications.
- Develop and follow referral pathways for patients with specialist needs.
Minor Illness
- Support the Same Day Urgent Care services as defined by role and competence.
- Triage and treat patients wishing to see a health care professional making any necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team.
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
- Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.
Long term conditions: -
- Assist nurse-run long term condition clinics and carry out clinical measurements and near patient testing for patients with diabetes, asthma, and COPD in line with NICE guidance and Quality and Outcome Framework indicators which may include:
- blood sugar monitoring
- assessment of feet with appropriate risk stratification
- spirometry
- pulse oximetry
- Peak Expiratory Flow rate
- teaching inhaler technique
- assessment of breathlessness.
- Recognise signs and symptoms that may indicate undiagnosed long term conditions e.g. poor wound healing, winter cough in smokers and also factors that may indicate mental health problems and use relevant referral pathways
- Work in accordance with Practice protocols to ensure the safe and effective management of patients with Chronic Diseases.
Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures:
- Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
- Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with the latest NMC guidance and other pertinent standards.
- Maintain professional registration and practice in accordance with NMC requirements.
- Attend and participate in nurse meetings.
- Participate and support service improvement initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- NMC 1st level Registration
- Evidence of continued professional
- development
Desirable
- Primary Care Nursing
- qualification
- Accredited Diploma
- Level Award in
- chronic disease
- management
- Mentorship course
Experience
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training and
- education to achieve core skills and
- experience required of a Practice Nurse.
- Experience of managing/dealing with the
- public patients.
- Willingness to improve and develop
- the patient experience and patient care
- pathway.
- Experience of working within healthcare
- governance systems and understands role
- and responsibilities for CQC and within risk
- management.
- Experience of using clinical systems & Microsoft Office software.
- Microsoft Office softwar
Desirable
- Experience in Primary
- or Community Care
- Nursing.
- Clinical skills and
- competence in
- Practice Nurse
- Treatment Room
- interventions.
- Management of long term conditions.
- Involvement in
- implementing and
- using protocols and
- clinical guidelines.
- Experience of audit
- and/or research.
- Experience of
- System One.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- NMC 1st level Registration
- Evidence of continued professional
- development
Desirable
- Primary Care Nursing
- qualification
- Accredited Diploma
- Level Award in
- chronic disease
- management
- Mentorship course
Experience
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training and
- education to achieve core skills and
- experience required of a Practice Nurse.
- Experience of managing/dealing with the
- public patients.
- Willingness to improve and develop
- the patient experience and patient care
- pathway.
- Experience of working within healthcare
- governance systems and understands role
- and responsibilities for CQC and within risk
- management.
- Experience of using clinical systems & Microsoft Office software.
- Microsoft Office softwar
Desirable
- Experience in Primary
- or Community Care
- Nursing.
- Clinical skills and
- competence in
- Practice Nurse
- Treatment Room
- interventions.
- Management of long term conditions.
- Involvement in
- implementing and
- using protocols and
- clinical guidelines.
- Experience of audit
- and/or research.
- Experience of
- System One.
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).
