Job summary
To be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The practice nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.
Main duties of the job
To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
To provide wound care to patients
To request pathology services as necessary
To provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
To ensure read codes are used effectively
To maintain chronic disease registers
To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
To recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
To contribute and lead as necessary, Infection Prevention Control (IPC) and to work to the IPC Policy providing audits, training, support and evidence of compliance to the practice manager
To develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
To implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
About us
Rolle Medical Partnership provides high quality primary care under a General Medical Services Contract delivering full general practice and additional enhanced services as well as care and support for our patients with long term conditions who live within our area.
Our list size is around 27,000 and we monitor our size and workload to ensure we have adequate clinical and administrative staff to adapt accordingly. We have four surgery sites, including our dispensing surgery in Lympstone.
We strive to be as effective and efficient as possible in terms of the healthcare we provide. We will be focussed on providing excellent primary care services for patients and listen to feedback to reflect.
We will provide a rich educational environment for our under and post graduate learners and encourage personal and career development for our staff to enhance their skills.
We will maintain our commitment to improvement, by use of innovation, technology and review of our systems.
We will continue to build on our excellent practice team working and our mutual support networks
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the supporting documents section of the advert for example General Practice Nurse job description.
Please note training will be offered for the successful candidate as we fully support education and development. This would include some of the clinical skills listed as essential criteria, for example: cervical screening, travel vaccinations, childhood immunisations and chronic disease management.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the supporting documents section of the advert for example General Practice Nurse job description.
Please note training will be offered for the successful candidate as we fully support education and development. This would include some of the clinical skills listed as essential criteria, for example: cervical screening, travel vaccinations, childhood immunisations and chronic disease management.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills written and oral
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- Systmone user skills
- Effective time management (planning and organisation)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure in stressful situations
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to onoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in primary care
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- Experience of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience of chronic disease management
Clinical knowledge and skills
Essential
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- Chaperone procedure
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Understanding the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
- Understanding of infection prevention and control measures
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
Desirable
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
- Women's health (cervical cytology, contraception, etc)
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or degree Primary Care
- Prescribing Nurse
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills written and oral
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- Systmone user skills
- Effective time management (planning and organisation)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure in stressful situations
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to onoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in primary care
Desirable
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- Experience of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience of chronic disease management
Clinical knowledge and skills
Essential
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- Chaperone procedure
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Understanding the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
- Understanding of infection prevention and control measures
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
Desirable
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
- Women's health (cervical cytology, contraception, etc)
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or degree Primary Care
- Prescribing Nurse
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
