Job responsibilities
Job
responsibilities
You remain under
the regulation of your professional body and must continue to comply with the
relevant standards of proficiency; recognise and work within own competence and
in accordance with the professional Code of Conduct of your original registered
profession.
Primary
Responsibilities:
Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term
conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for family
planning and cervical cytology consultations
Implement and
participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and
children.
Advise, support and where appropriate administer vaccinations for
patients travelling abroad.
Provide wound care to patients.
Request and process pathology services as required.
Provide holistic chronic disease care for patients by implementing and
evaluate individual treatment plans, delivering and monitoring patient care and
referring patients to specialist care as required.
Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with professional code
of conduct and legislation.
Ensure read codes are used effectively.
Maintain chronic disease registers.
Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health
needs.
Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the
counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance
with local and national policies.
Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programme.
Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is
supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice
and the task is within the scope of practice of the individuals).
Involved in clinical audit, effectively utilising the audit cycle.
Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of
medicines.
Support junior members of the nursing team to help them achieve their
potential, providing guidance when necessary.
Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient
care.
Support and
participate in shared learning within the practice.
Continually review
clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where
appropriate
Secondary
Responsibilities:
Participate in
planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
Uphold the values
and behaviours of your Profession and act as a positive role model.
Monitor the safety
and effectiveness of own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies
such as the use of audit, feedback from clinical managers and peers, case
review and peer review.
To ensure Risk Management
requirements are adhered and any assessments completed on time.
The post holder is
responsible for ensuring they undertake the appropriate level of training in
accordance with the safeguarding policy training strategy so that they ensure
they promote the welfare of children and adults.
The post holder
must always comply with the practice Health and Safety policies, by following
agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the practice risk
incident reporting system.
Using appropriate infection
control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from
hazards.
All members of
staff are bound by the requirements of the Data protection Act 1998. Whilst
seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive
information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in
confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy
and act appropriately.
Information
relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the
business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
The post holder
must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of
employment. Co-workers, patients, and visitors must be treated equally
irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation,
religion etc.
