Lead Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB:

To lead a nursing team, responsible for ensuring that the practice provides an optimum service of nursing care relevant to the patient population; working to agreed protocols.

Main duties and responsibilities to include the following:

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Meeting patients nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by a GP. This will usually be in the surgery but occasional home visits may also be required.

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. Accurate and efficient input of data for GMS contract purposes is also required.

Providing leadership to the nursing team.

Prescribing

Ideally have the prescribing qualification, or be prepared to work towards it.

Long Term Conditions

Nurses to be qualified in at least two of the following long-term conditions one of which ideally diabetes, or be prepared to study diabetes:

Diabetes:

Initiates the process of diagnosis of patients with suspected diabetes

Manages patients newly diagnosed with diabetes under protocols

Undertakes annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage

Refers to dieticians, chiropodist and diabetes and specialist nurses

Maintains a disease register

Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary

Cardiovascular Disease:

Works with patients to set action plans for changes of lifestyle

Provides support for patients by assessing interventions and treatments

Respiratory Care:

Manages newly diagnosed patients with asthma and COPD

Maintains a disease register

Work within agreed local guidelines to manage patients with asthma, aiding diagnosis, reviewing inhaler technique and advising on treatment changes

Clinical Nursing Practice:

Assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of individuals and groups in the practice population

Assess, diagnose and treat specific diseases in accordance with agreed medical/nursing protocols

Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy

Wound care including compression

Womens health including cervical screening and contraception

Care and Programme Management:

Develop profile of the practice population in order to initiate, contribute and promote improved health and prevent disease in individuals and groups

Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening

Manage programmes of care for patients with acute and chronic diseases by planning, providing and evaluating care

Support and enable individuals, carers, groups and communities to take action to meet their priorities for health

Vaccinations and immunisations of babies, children and adults.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Nursing qualification
• Two Long term condition diploma's including diabetes
• Training in sexual health and cervical cytology
• Wound care management
• Trained in giving Baby and childhood immunisations

Desirable

• Independant prescriber
• minor illness qualification
• telephone triage experience

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

Lingwell Croft Surgery

Address

16 Shelldrake Drive

Middleton

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS10 3NB

Employer's website

https://www.lingwellcroft.co.uk/# (Opens in a new tab)