Job summary
To provide professional,
competent and efficient medical care based on best practice which meets
patients health and social needs, involving other members of the clinical team
as appropriate.
To contribute to the Practice
goal Providing the Best Clinical Care.
Main duties of the job
Primary and Secondary Clinical Duties:
Accountable for the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to professional standards, guidelines and code of conduct (Safeguarding, Nursing and Midwifery Council, NICE, Local Authority Guidelines)
Some of the Primary Clinical Duties include; childhood immunisations, routine vaccinations and injections and perform monitoring of patients whom we provide long term contraception, hypertensive patients and asthmatic patients
Some of the Secondary Clinical Duties include; Chronic disease management, immunisations and contribute to QoF Data collection as required.
About us
Want to work in the beautiful, vibrant, and historic city of York, against the backdrop of York Minster, the City Bar Walls, and Clifford's Tower?
Where you have the stunning Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors Countryside on your doorstep?
Then Priory Medical Group is the place for you.
We are a large nine site GP practice serving 58,000+ patients in the scenic city of York.
Here at Priory Medical Group, we pride ourselves on having small site-based teams working locally with efficient support systems. This combination allows clinicians to prioritise patient care and reduce the impact of daily clinical administrative tasks. Having a talented, diverse, and multi-disciplined team enables our patients to access experienced, specialised clinicians effectively and efficiently.
Priory Medical Group is about shared values, a desire to develop knowledge and skills, teamwork and delivering the best service to our patients.
Why not find out now what we could offer you?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Clinical Duties
Accountable for the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to professional standards, guidelines and code of conduct (Safeguarding, Nursing and Midwifery Council, NICE, Local Authority Guidelines)
Perform monitoring of:
- Patient for whom we provide long term contraception
- Hypertensive patients
- Asthmatic patients
- Other specific conditions
- Childhood immunisations
- Routine vaccinations and injections
- Assist with coil and Implanon fitting and removal
- Record all Patient Contact on Practice Medical Record system in a timely manner
- Routine Smear taking
- Conduct New Patient Health Checks
- Wound Management including a plan of care.
- Removal of Sutures
Secondary Clinical Duties
(This list is not exhaustive and may be subject to alteration, but the role includes all duties that may reasonably fall within the job purpose)
Accountable for the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to professional standards, guidelines and code of conduct (Safeguarding, Nursing and Midwifery Council, NICE, Local Authority Guidelines)
- Review and amendment of nurse protocols as required
- If Nurse Prescriber, its the nurses responsibility to adhere to any guidelines, protocols or best practice associated with any such additional elements of their role
- If the Nurse is asked to perform Implants, its the nurses responsibility to adhere to any guidelines, protocols or best practice associated with any such additional elements of their role
- Chronic Disease Management including but not limited to:
- Asthma
- Vascular Disease (including IHD/Stroke/PVD)
- COPD
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Family Planning including cervical cytology screening
- Immunisations including but not limited to:
- Current adult/adolescent protocols
- Childhood protocols
- Specific campaigns, e.g. Flu/Pneumovax
- Advise nurse management of equipment failure/maintenance requirements
- Contribute to QoF data collation as required
Clinical Care Administration
Accountable for ensuring efficient, appropriate and accurate patient record entries:
- Patient Records - Accurate, efficient and appropriate Record Keeping
- Use of templates Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of templates
- Protocols - Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of protocols
- QOF - Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of QOF
Other Responsibilities
- Accountable for maintaining a clean, safe and efficient health care environment for the patient (i.e. Maintenance of Treatment Room Stock and/or Drug Expiry Dates)
- Maintaining clinical Best Practice and knowledge share: Responsible for maintaining / updating clinical knowledge and skills as required too deliver clinical best practice by attending appropriate training events. To contribute to the development of other team members clinical skills by offering clinical support and mentorship as necessary within the Practice
- Planned and Unplanned Cover: To contribute in maintaining the levels of service expected of our patients and the Practice in achieving its goals by taking a fair share of covering colleagues planned and unplanned absence
- To ensure any CQC requirements and/or documentation for which the post holder is responsible for is completed timely and accurately. To also ensure any procedures and processes applicable to the role are followed timely and accurately.
- To ensure you devote the whole of your time, attention and abilities to your role, our business and its goals
- Such other reasonable duties as may be delegated from time to time.
- For any additional responsibilities not detailed in this job description, the individual is responsible the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to the relevant professional standards, protocols, processes and/or guidelines and code of conduct.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Clinical Duties
Accountable for the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to professional standards, guidelines and code of conduct (Safeguarding, Nursing and Midwifery Council, NICE, Local Authority Guidelines)
Perform monitoring of:
- Patient for whom we provide long term contraception
- Hypertensive patients
- Asthmatic patients
- Other specific conditions
- Childhood immunisations
- Routine vaccinations and injections
- Assist with coil and Implanon fitting and removal
- Record all Patient Contact on Practice Medical Record system in a timely manner
- Routine Smear taking
- Conduct New Patient Health Checks
- Wound Management including a plan of care.
- Removal of Sutures
Secondary Clinical Duties
(This list is not exhaustive and may be subject to alteration, but the role includes all duties that may reasonably fall within the job purpose)
Accountable for the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to professional standards, guidelines and code of conduct (Safeguarding, Nursing and Midwifery Council, NICE, Local Authority Guidelines)
- Review and amendment of nurse protocols as required
- If Nurse Prescriber, its the nurses responsibility to adhere to any guidelines, protocols or best practice associated with any such additional elements of their role
- If the Nurse is asked to perform Implants, its the nurses responsibility to adhere to any guidelines, protocols or best practice associated with any such additional elements of their role
- Chronic Disease Management including but not limited to:
- Asthma
- Vascular Disease (including IHD/Stroke/PVD)
- COPD
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Family Planning including cervical cytology screening
- Immunisations including but not limited to:
- Current adult/adolescent protocols
- Childhood protocols
- Specific campaigns, e.g. Flu/Pneumovax
- Advise nurse management of equipment failure/maintenance requirements
- Contribute to QoF data collation as required
Clinical Care Administration
Accountable for ensuring efficient, appropriate and accurate patient record entries:
- Patient Records - Accurate, efficient and appropriate Record Keeping
- Use of templates Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of templates
- Protocols - Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of protocols
- QOF - Accurate, efficient and appropriate use of QOF
Other Responsibilities
- Accountable for maintaining a clean, safe and efficient health care environment for the patient (i.e. Maintenance of Treatment Room Stock and/or Drug Expiry Dates)
- Maintaining clinical Best Practice and knowledge share: Responsible for maintaining / updating clinical knowledge and skills as required too deliver clinical best practice by attending appropriate training events. To contribute to the development of other team members clinical skills by offering clinical support and mentorship as necessary within the Practice
- Planned and Unplanned Cover: To contribute in maintaining the levels of service expected of our patients and the Practice in achieving its goals by taking a fair share of covering colleagues planned and unplanned absence
- To ensure any CQC requirements and/or documentation for which the post holder is responsible for is completed timely and accurately. To also ensure any procedures and processes applicable to the role are followed timely and accurately.
- To ensure you devote the whole of your time, attention and abilities to your role, our business and its goals
- Such other reasonable duties as may be delegated from time to time.
- For any additional responsibilities not detailed in this job description, the individual is responsible the delivery of efficient, quality and evidence based clinical care in accordance to the relevant professional standards, protocols, processes and/or guidelines and code of conduct.
Person Specification
Behaviours & Skills
Essential
- Behaviours:
- Team Work: Work effectively and professionally within the wider Practice clinical team, a local surgery team and as an urgent care team through willingness to proactively support and assist their peers and colleagues.
- Autonomous: Ability to work independently by making informed decisions based on professional knowledge and clinical judgement. Whilst also having the ability to recognise when a problem / issue should be escalated or referred for specialist investigation because it falls outside of the scope of the role and your professional knowledge.
- Can-Do Attitude: Ability to react to and face challenges or setbacks in a positive manner with a commitment to continuous improvement of their own skills and behaviours and also of the service
- Customer Service: Ability to remain focused on providing and continuously improving an excellent patient and internal customer service
- Deadline / Target Driven: Ability to work efficiently and to strict deadlines. To be driven by the setting and achieving of individual and team targets
- Attention to Detail: Ability to gather, process, analyse and input large volumes of information to deadlines whilst maintaining highest levels of attention to detail
- Confidentiality: Ability to exercise and adhere to the Practice confidentiality policies
- Work Prioritisation: Ability to organise, prioritise and manage your own work demands by assessing levels of urgency and importance
- Skills:
- Communication Skills:
- Able to calmly, professionally and efficiently identify patients / internal customers needs
- Able to, calmly, professionally and efficiently deliver patients / internal customers needs with a warm reassuring demeanor
- Or
- Able to skillfully signpost / refer the patient or customer to the most appropriate person or alternative solution to their needs
- Risk Management: It is essential the post holder is willing to access support and advice as appropriate. Awareness of the scope / boundaries of their own responsibilities, decision making, skills and knowledge is vital and to assertively and appropriately escalate and/or access support.
- IT Literate; competent in the use of Microsoft Applications and a proven ability to learn how to navigate and interrogate systems, input data with an attention to detail and follow processes and procedures.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered and ongoing membership with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) by ensuring he/she keeps their professional skills and knowledge up to date and uphold professional standards.
- Safeguarding Children Level 2 Training.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Training.
- Certification of Enhanced Criminal Record Check with childrens and/or adults barred list check(s).
- Medical Defence Indemnity It is a condition of this employment and the Nurses responsibility to effect and maintain membership of a recognised Medical Defence Organisation commensurate with their professional duties at the Partners expense throughout the period of your employment.
- It should be stressed; this Job Description should not be used in isolation for any application for medical defence indemnity as with any job description, it is not intended to be exhaustive and includes all other duties that may reasonably fall within the scope of the role. A full and carefully considered application process should be relied upon for accurate medical defence union membership.
- Appropriate evidence of qualifications for any procedure and/or care the individual is asked to provide within the team and scope of their role (I.e. Wound Management / Minor Injuries / Vaccinations / Implanon etc.)
Person Specification
Behaviours & Skills
Essential
- Behaviours:
- Team Work: Work effectively and professionally within the wider Practice clinical team, a local surgery team and as an urgent care team through willingness to proactively support and assist their peers and colleagues.
- Autonomous: Ability to work independently by making informed decisions based on professional knowledge and clinical judgement. Whilst also having the ability to recognise when a problem / issue should be escalated or referred for specialist investigation because it falls outside of the scope of the role and your professional knowledge.
- Can-Do Attitude: Ability to react to and face challenges or setbacks in a positive manner with a commitment to continuous improvement of their own skills and behaviours and also of the service
- Customer Service: Ability to remain focused on providing and continuously improving an excellent patient and internal customer service
- Deadline / Target Driven: Ability to work efficiently and to strict deadlines. To be driven by the setting and achieving of individual and team targets
- Attention to Detail: Ability to gather, process, analyse and input large volumes of information to deadlines whilst maintaining highest levels of attention to detail
- Confidentiality: Ability to exercise and adhere to the Practice confidentiality policies
- Work Prioritisation: Ability to organise, prioritise and manage your own work demands by assessing levels of urgency and importance
- Skills:
- Communication Skills:
- Able to calmly, professionally and efficiently identify patients / internal customers needs
- Able to, calmly, professionally and efficiently deliver patients / internal customers needs with a warm reassuring demeanor
- Or
- Able to skillfully signpost / refer the patient or customer to the most appropriate person or alternative solution to their needs
- Risk Management: It is essential the post holder is willing to access support and advice as appropriate. Awareness of the scope / boundaries of their own responsibilities, decision making, skills and knowledge is vital and to assertively and appropriately escalate and/or access support.
- IT Literate; competent in the use of Microsoft Applications and a proven ability to learn how to navigate and interrogate systems, input data with an attention to detail and follow processes and procedures.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered and ongoing membership with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) by ensuring he/she keeps their professional skills and knowledge up to date and uphold professional standards.
- Safeguarding Children Level 2 Training.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Training.
- Certification of Enhanced Criminal Record Check with childrens and/or adults barred list check(s).
- Medical Defence Indemnity It is a condition of this employment and the Nurses responsibility to effect and maintain membership of a recognised Medical Defence Organisation commensurate with their professional duties at the Partners expense throughout the period of your employment.
- It should be stressed; this Job Description should not be used in isolation for any application for medical defence indemnity as with any job description, it is not intended to be exhaustive and includes all other duties that may reasonably fall within the scope of the role. A full and carefully considered application process should be relied upon for accurate medical defence union membership.
- Appropriate evidence of qualifications for any procedure and/or care the individual is asked to provide within the team and scope of their role (I.e. Wound Management / Minor Injuries / Vaccinations / Implanon etc.)
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
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
