Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities:
Providing
assessment, screening and treatment services and health education advice
Organise
and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services and infection control
procedures for the practice with support from the practice and operations
managers.
Provide
nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or
independently to agreed protocols.
Provide
general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed
protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.
Advise
patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as
necessary.
Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures
Following
appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and despatch of
pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc
and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment so used. Perform any investigatory procedures
requested by the GPs.
Support
and maintain infection control policies within the practice for undertaking
such procedures
Administrative and professional responsibilities
Ensure
accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the
patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate.
Ensure
accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient
health care and registration with the practice.
Ensure
collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and
ad hoc reports.
Attend
and participate in practice meetings as required.
Assist
in the formulation of practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop
appropriate protocols.
Research projects
Co-operate
and participate as required in any research projects within the practice.
Liaison
Maintain effective liaison with other
agencies and staff concerned with patient care and with all other
disciplines within the practice, with appropriate regard to
confidentiality.Professional
development
Maintain continued education by attendance
at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional
development.
Confidentiality:
In the course of 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.
In the performance of the duties outlined
in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential
information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and
other healthcare workers. They may
also have access to information relating to the practice as a business
organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded
as strictly confidential
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.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will
implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and
others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice
Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety policy, and the
practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include
(but will not be limited to):
Using personal security systems within
the workplace according to practice guidelines
Awareness of national standards of
infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /
professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
Responsible for the correct and safe
management of the specimens process including collection, labelling,
handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport
arrangements
responsible for your hand hygiene
Ownership of infection control and
clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those
protocols across the practice
Active observation of current working
practices across the practice in relation to infection control,
cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed,
and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as
appropriate
Identifying the risks involved in work
activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those
risks across clinical and patient process
Making effective use of training to
update knowledge and skills, certificates of any training should be given
to the Practice Manager for photo-coping and entering into your employment
file.
Safe management of sharps procedures
including training, use, storage and disposal
Using appropriate infection control
procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe
way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where
needed or escalation to responsible management
Actively identifying, reporting, and
correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately
when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general /
patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards /
risks in relation to other work areas within the practice.
Spillage control procedures, management
and training
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and
rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting
in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting
them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,
and current legislation
Respecting
the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving
in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental
and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme
implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to
include:
Participation
in an annual individual performance review, including taking
responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or
professional development
Taking
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and
demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar
work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the
practice, and will:
Alert
other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess
own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly
or under supervision
Contribute
to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities
and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams
performance
Work
effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectively
manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The
post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within
the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team
members
Communicate effectively with patients and
carers
Recognize peoples needs for alternative
methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the
Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:
Apply
practice policies, standards and guidance
Participate
in audit where appropriate
Primary responsibilities
Management of long-term conditions including
Chronic disease management such as Asthma, COPD Diabetes
To provide health, wellbeing and lifestyle
advice
Observations including ECGS, blood pressures,
foot checks urine analysis
Screening including cervical smears
Wound care including dressings and suture
removals
Health checks
injections
Vaccinations including child immunisations,
travel vaccinations, shingles.