Job responsibilities
Working 7-8 hours Thursday and Friday
Job Responsibilities
To provide basic and higher levels of nursing
care as needed for patients.
To provide care for minor injuries, dressings,
including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly,
where appropriate with community and secondary care counter-parts, escalating
to a GP as necessary and also provide supervision for less qualified nursing
colleagues in the practice.
To do cervical cytology sampling, immunisations
as outlined by national programmes and local guidelines, working closely with
the nursing, clinical and admin team to create systems to identify patients who
are in need of such services and promoting the service hard to reach patients.
To support the annual flu campaign and other mass
population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.
To conduct, blood pressure, spirometry,
urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, ECG, peak flow and other practice
based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients.
To carry out health checks in conjunction with
national, local and practice initiatives.
To provide patient health promotion/ disease
prevention education and counselling focusing on health behaviour change.
To provide travel immunisations to patients of
the practice. .
To liaise with community nursing colleagues to
continue the provision of nursing care in the home if patients are unable to
attend the practice and to transfer or share care as appropriate, visiting
outside the practice if needed on exceptional circumstances to meet the needs
of patients.
To provide support to the GPs in the management
of chronic diseases such as Diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc. by
providing specifically defined clinical sessions, working closely with the GP
to manage a patients overall care.
To promote the health and well-being of patients
by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their
medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.
Administrative:
To maintain accurate patient records, entering onto
the practice system the appropriate agreed codes, using agree standards of data
entry, templates and protocols, completing all documentation, computerised and
paper-based, as is required for good patient care.
To maintain in cooperation with other nursing and
admin colleagues a system of clinical stock and equipment maintenance,
calibration, and supply; working closely with the practice manager to insure
cost efficient purchasing of perishable and expensive items.
To maintain all documentation needed to carry out
your clinical duties including PGDs.
To participate in Infection Control procedure and
protocols and their implementation within the practice.
General:
To maintain your own annual registration with the
NMC and adhere to its Code of Professional Conduct.
Maintain any other required registrations and
certifications necessary to fulfil your role.
To promote a professional approach at all times
by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the Practice,
setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a
whole.
To maintain you own continuous CPD and insure a
PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development
plans.
To participate in and attend practice meetings
and in-house training.
You may be required to perform other duties from
time to time to meet the needs of patients and the practice.
