Job summary
West Street Surgery has one of the largest and supportive nursing teams in the area. With 3 nurse prescribers, 3 treatment room nurses, 2 HCA/Phlebotomists and a regular locum nurse you will joining an experienced and established team.
We are currently looking for a nurse to replace a member of the team who has secured a position closer to her home.
The role is offered as part-time 0.6 (direct replacement), however full time hours will be considered if desired.
Main duties of the job
To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance
to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team. The duties will include all tasks normally
undertaken by a Treatment Room Nurse and in addition any roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors
as appropriate, having regard to current training.
West Street Surgery currently has a contract for anticoagulation management using INR Star software. Following training this will become part of your day to day rota together with the main nurse duties.
In addition there is also the opportunity to contribute current skills or learn new skills in the management of long-term conditions.
About us
West Street Surgery is a busy,
dynamic, well managed GMS Practice based in Dunstable, South Bedfordshire.
Close to the Bucks and Herts Borders, Dunstable is easily accessible from
Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, Leighton Buzzard, Harpenden and St Albans.
The area has become an increasingly
popular place to relocate to, helped in part by its affordable housing and good
school catchment areas. The practice is located on the edge of the town, close
to the Chiltern Hills, Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade. The practice boundary
extends out to include many of the local villages.
Dunstable has a good range of shops and a newly refurbished
leisure centre. Local attractions include the Grove Theatre, Priory House
Heritage Centre and the Priory Church (where Henry VIII divorced Catherine of
Aragon).
West Street Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic treatment room nurse to join and enhance our established team. As a practice we are extremely proud
of the warm, cohesive environment that is promoted and are keen to ensure that
our nurses can expect excellent levels of work-life balance.
You will work alongside highly trained
colleagues in a role designed to be patient centric. This is a practice
connected with its nurses; there are regular appraisals designed to understand
what you want from your career, whether it is pursuing areas of clinical interest,
management and leadership training or a focus on helping others learn.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement
and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent
adverse effects on health and well-being
- Implement and evaluate individual
treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Identify, and manage as
appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a
long-term condition
- Prioritise health problems and
intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or
emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply
principles of self-care
- Deliver opportunistic health
promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
- Provide information and advice on
prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects
and interactions
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and
encourage principles of self-care
- Assess and care for patients
presenting with uncomplicated wounds
- Support and advise women
requesting information relating to family planning needs
- Support and manage health needs of
women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
- Recognise, assess and refer
patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the
National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health
- Implement and participate in
vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and, where
appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver
evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
- Assist senior practitioners in
providing minor-surgery sessions
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive
communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to
treatment
- Communicate with and support
patients who are receiving ‘bad news’
- Communicate effectively with
patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of
communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural
background and preferred ways of communicating
- Utilise communication skills to
support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
- Anticipate barriers to
communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective
communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment
external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when
representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others
Delivering
a Quality Service
- Recognise and work within own
competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing
and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous
and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation,
policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage
own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to the NSF
and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and
evidence-based care
- Assess effectiveness of care
delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
- Participate in the maintenance of
quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its
activities
- Utilise the audit cycle as a
means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team,
implementing improvements where required
- In partnership with other
clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care,
responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients’ response
to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared
learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the management,
review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents
and near-miss events utilising a structured framework (eg root-cause
analysis)
- Participate in the performance
monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate
- Understand and apply legal policy
that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and
adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure
and local guidance
- Work within policies relating to
domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive
behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Team
Working
- Understand own role and scope in
the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible
team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new
ways of working
- Delegate clearly and
appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of
competence of those taking on delegated duties
- Ensure clear understanding and
utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice
- Accept delegation from other
nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management
strategies are embedded in own practice
- Work effectively with others to
clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve
patient care
- Participate in and support local
projects as agreed with the practice management team
Management
of Risk
- Manage and assess risk within the
areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to
protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices
to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health,
safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and
disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee
the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage
according to legal requirements
- Undertake mandatory and statutory
training
- Apply infection control measures
within the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Apply policies that reduce
environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access
to health care for all
- Participate in the local
implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of
general practice
Utilising
Information
- Use technology as an aid to
management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and
communicating information
- Review and process data using
accurate Read codes about patients in order to ensure easy and accurate
retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using
the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of
relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand own and other’s
responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of
Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present
clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or
graphs to enhance care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement
and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent
adverse effects on health and well-being
- Implement and evaluate individual
treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Identify, and manage as
appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a
long-term condition
- Prioritise health problems and
intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or
emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply
principles of self-care
- Deliver opportunistic health
promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
- Provide information and advice on
prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects
and interactions
- Support patients to adopt health
promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and
encourage principles of self-care
- Assess and care for patients
presenting with uncomplicated wounds
- Support and advise women
requesting information relating to family planning needs
- Support and manage health needs of
women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
- Recognise, assess and refer
patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the
National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health
- Implement and participate in
vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Advise, support and, where
appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Promote and deliver
evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
- Assist senior practitioners in
providing minor-surgery sessions
Communication
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive
communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to
treatment
- Communicate with and support
patients who are receiving ‘bad news’
- Communicate effectively with
patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of
communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural
background and preferred ways of communicating
- Utilise communication skills to
support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
- Anticipate barriers to
communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective
communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment
external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when
representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others
Delivering
a Quality Service
- Recognise and work within own
competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing
and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous
and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation,
policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage
own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to the NSF
and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and
evidence-based care
- Assess effectiveness of care
delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
- Participate in the maintenance of
quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its
activities
- Utilise the audit cycle as a
means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team,
implementing improvements where required
- In partnership with other
clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care,
responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients’ response
to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared
learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the management,
review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents
and near-miss events utilising a structured framework (eg root-cause
analysis)
- Participate in the performance
monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate
- Understand and apply legal policy
that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and
adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure
and local guidance
- Work within policies relating to
domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive
behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Team
Working
- Understand own role and scope in
the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible
team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new
ways of working
- Delegate clearly and
appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of
competence of those taking on delegated duties
- Ensure clear understanding and
utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice
- Accept delegation from other
nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management
strategies are embedded in own practice
- Work effectively with others to
clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve
patient care
- Participate in and support local
projects as agreed with the practice management team
Management
of Risk
- Manage and assess risk within the
areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to
protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices
to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health,
safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and
disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee
the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage
according to legal requirements
- Undertake mandatory and statutory
training
- Apply infection control measures
within the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Apply policies that reduce
environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access
to health care for all
- Participate in the local
implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of
general practice
Utilising
Information
- Use technology as an aid to
management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and
communicating information
- Review and process data using
accurate Read codes about patients in order to ensure easy and accurate
retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using
the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of
relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand own and other’s
responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of
Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present
clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or
graphs to enhance care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Membership of a professional body
- Statutory and Mandatory training
Desirable
- Certification in INR Star
- Education for Health Asthma and COPD
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working within Primary Care
Desirable
- Knowledge of Quality Outcomes Framework
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Membership of a professional body
- Statutory and Mandatory training
Desirable
- Certification in INR Star
- Education for Health Asthma and COPD
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working within Primary Care
Desirable
- Knowledge of Quality Outcomes Framework
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
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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