Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your Responsibilities

Clinical Practice and Quality

Demonstrate developing competence and clinical skills in the assessment of patients in the general practice setting, ensuring care is planned in partnership with patients and all information is clearly and objectively recorded according to practice policy.

To do this you will be required to:

• Practice in compliance with your respective code of professional conduct and scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice
• Work towards the Foundation Programme, Fundamentals of Practice Nursing or demonstrate equivalent experience spanning:

o Treatment Room

o Child Immunisations

o Cervical Cytology

o Complex Dressings

• Assess patients, taking into account their physical, mental and social states, alongside the impact of their environment and support available to them, to produce a person-centred plan of care
• Demonstrate knowledge of a broad range of long-term conditions and local care pathways, including for example, diabetes, respiratory disease, coronary heart disease
• Demonstrate effective communication skills to optimise patient satisfaction while managing their expectations and supporting them to make decisions, plan care, or make positive change, including:

o When dealing with sensitive or confidential matters that may also have legal or ethical considerations, for example, safeguarding, substance abuse, sexual orientation and gender identity, racial and ethnic diversity, mental illness, disabilities, etc.

o To support patients to adopt health promotion strategies, and apply principles of self-care, including referring or sign-posting to other services that may support their wider well-being, e.g. District Nurses, Social Prescribers, Health & Well-being coaches, etc.

o Work collaboratively with your colleagues within Mereside practices and across the local health economy to manage risks and issues, and integrate effectively with health and social care providers, ensuring consistency of care across settings and practices

• Actively contribute to implementing the quality governance systems and processes across the organisation, demonstrating receptiveness to challenge and learn, and preparedness to constructively challenge others, in doing so. This includes but is not limited to healthcare records, learning points, and significant events
• Be confident in, and/or willing to learn, relevant technologies to facilitate remote consultations and effective cross-site working (e.g. MS Teams, AskMyGP, SystmOne, AccuRx)
• Be willing to develop learning materials for patients and adapting care to support individual needs in patients, across a variety of media.

Facilitation and Learning

Able to recognise personal development needs and also facilitate learning for patient, carers, other staff and students.

This requires you to:

• Within the context of the support offered by preceptorship, take responsibility for your own learning and professional development plan that reflects the breadth of the needs of practice nursing in primary care
• Proactively share learning, information, and good practice insights across the practice and wider organisation to facilitate individual and team learning
• Advocate for, and positively contribute to, a cohesive culture of organisational learning and collaboration both within and between teams, to ensure the best patient experience throughout their entire journey
• Contribute to building confidence within the team through work-based and inter-professional learning, mentoring and role modelling.

Teamwork

You are part of the Mereside practice nursing team with delegated responsibility for patient care, being accountable to the Nurse Manager.

This requires you to:

• Contribute positively to a sense of cohesion, and foster a culture of wider collaboration, across the organisation, engaging effectively with collaboration tools such as MS Teams to improve communication and information sharing across sites and teams, including remote workers
• Prioritise own workload and manage your time effectively to ensure that cases are handled by the most clinically appropriate member of the team, and completed in a timely manner
• Be proactive within your team to identify and service suggest improvements to the Nursing Manager based on feedback, evaluation, and need.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• You should have or be:
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary primary care team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to quality improvement and evidence-based practice
• High standards of confidentiality, ethics, and accountability
• Adaptable and resilient in a busy general practice environment
• Well-organised with good time-management and prioritisation abilities

Desirable

• It would be an advantage if you also:
• Previous experience in Primary Care inclusive of immunisation and cervical cytology
• Previous experience and use of SystmOne
• Management of long-term conditions
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and anaphylaxis training (current or willing to update)

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Mereside Medical Group

Address

Brewhouse Lane

Soham

Ely

Cambridgeshire

CB7 5JD

Employer's website

https://www.meresidemedical.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)