Job summary
We are a CQC Outstanding practice seeking our final piece of the team jigsaw. We are looking for a dynamic addition to our nursing team due to staff development and the growth of the Practice list size. The list is currently 6900 and growing. The vacancy is for 26 hours per week over 4 days (Mon to Thurs). The successful candidate will be well supported, working alongside a second nurse. This is a rare opportunity as we very rarely recruit. Milnrow Village Practice is a supportive and happy place to be and the team we have are all long serving members of the team. We have plans for new purpose built premises, work on which is due to start this year... and we think its an exciting time for the right person to join us. The successful candidate will help to maintain the quality of the service that we strive to deliver and contribute towards the development of the practice in line with future initiatives and challenges. The salary is dependent upon experience.
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 an experienced practice nurse and any additional roles agreed
between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current
training.
The successful candidate will be actively involved in chronic disease management (QOF), childhood immunisations and adult vaccinations, Contraception, Cervical cytology, NHS health checks. Also assist the GP with Minor surgery and IUCD fittings.
Time management, good communication skills and ability to use initiative are important to us.
Experience in the use of EMIS Web is preferred.
Qualified Prescriber and knowledge of searches in EMIS would be an advantage (but not essential)
About us
The clinical team comprises of 5 GPs (Two male and 3 female), an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, soon to be 2 nurses, HCA, and Phlebotomist. We also host a variety of staff from our PCN including pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedic, TNA, NA and student counsellor. The admin support consists of 8 receptionists, secretary, Data Quality, Summariser and Practice Manager. The team achieves great things together and always give over and above for our patients. NHS choices feedback is consistently high and patients are supportive of the practice. It is a fantastic place to be and a great team to be part of. Informal visits to the practice are welcome and make an ideal opportunity to gain a feel for the practice and to meet the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary
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 an experienced RGN and any additional roles agreed
between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current
training.
Job responsibilities
Professional
- Offer a holistic approach to travel health by
providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including;
vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection
- Offer advice about childhood and adult
vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group
directions
- Running well person clinics and health
promotion programmes, facilitating change by providing holistic assessment
and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise
- Running chronic disease clinics and completing
EMIS templates in line with current QOF and practice guidelines.
- Family planning and contraception
- Able to document Consultations according to
NMC guidelines
- Ensures awareness of statutory and local
clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms
of child abuse.
- Perform a holistic assessment of patients
attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
- Perform venepuncture according to local
guidelines
- Take ECGs
- Able to recognise and manage anaphylaxis
according to current UK guidelines
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
according to current UK guidelines
- Ability to obtain and document informed
consent (either verbal or written)
- Ensure infection control guidelines are
maintained
- Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of
stock and equipment to include refrigeration, and emergency equipment
- Participation in an annual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal
and professional development.
- Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others
undertaking similar work.
- Confidentiality of information gained at work
must be preserved at all times in accordance with GDPR
Managerial
- Contribute to the assessment of service needs
- Assist patients to identify their health needs
- Contribute a nursing perspective to the
practice development plan
- Manage and organise individual patient
consultations
- Aware of identification and reporting
procedures related to professional standards
- To attend staff meetings & training sessions
- Ensure effective relationships and
communications with the PHCT and other agencies
- Support the Practice clinical governance
agenda
- Identify changes to clinical practice that are
required to implement evidence-based guidelines
Educational
- Identify personal development and training
needs in conjunction with the manager
- Participate in clinical supervision
- Support others with their training and
development needs
- To participate in continuing education and
maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills
Personnel
- Maintain good industrial relations
- Take reasonable care of his/her own safety and
that of other persons who may be affected by his/her act or omission
- Co-operation with the practice to ensure all
members of the team adheres to statutory regulations/policies and codes of
practice and departments safety rules
- Offer innovative ways of working and
opportunities to facilitate learning
- Facilitates a learning environment within the
team
- Maintains a caring environment through the
support of colleagues
- Acknowledgement of own professional
limitations and be able to seek professional advice from colleagues.
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 manage their own
and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice
Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, the
practice Infection Control policy and other 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 specimen process including collection, labelling,
handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport
arrangements
- Management and maintenance of Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice including provision, ordering,
availability and ongoing correct usage by staff
- Responsible for hand hygiene across the
practice
- 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, and initiate and manage the training of others across
the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment
in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand
cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical
working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- 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 business, and assuming
responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector
managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control
training (minimum twice annually)
- Routine management of own team / team areas,
and maintenance of work space standards
- Waste management including collection, handling,
segregation, container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and
training
- Decontamination control procedures, management
and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
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 recognises 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 recognise the importance of effective
communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team
members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise 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
- Discuss with other members of the team how the
policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary
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 an experienced RGN and any additional roles agreed
between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current
training.
Job responsibilities
Professional
- Offer a holistic approach to travel health by
providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including;
vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection
- Offer advice about childhood and adult
vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group
directions
- Running well person clinics and health
promotion programmes, facilitating change by providing holistic assessment
and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise
- Running chronic disease clinics and completing
EMIS templates in line with current QOF and practice guidelines.
- Family planning and contraception
- Able to document Consultations according to
NMC guidelines
- Ensures awareness of statutory and local
clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms
of child abuse.
- Perform a holistic assessment of patients
attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
- Perform venepuncture according to local
guidelines
- Take ECGs
- Able to recognise and manage anaphylaxis
according to current UK guidelines
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
according to current UK guidelines
- Ability to obtain and document informed
consent (either verbal or written)
- Ensure infection control guidelines are
maintained
- Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of
stock and equipment to include refrigeration, and emergency equipment
- Participation in an annual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal
and professional development.
- Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others
undertaking similar work.
- Confidentiality of information gained at work
must be preserved at all times in accordance with GDPR
Managerial
- Contribute to the assessment of service needs
- Assist patients to identify their health needs
- Contribute a nursing perspective to the
practice development plan
- Manage and organise individual patient
consultations
- Aware of identification and reporting
procedures related to professional standards
- To attend staff meetings & training sessions
- Ensure effective relationships and
communications with the PHCT and other agencies
- Support the Practice clinical governance
agenda
- Identify changes to clinical practice that are
required to implement evidence-based guidelines
Educational
- Identify personal development and training
needs in conjunction with the manager
- Participate in clinical supervision
- Support others with their training and
development needs
- To participate in continuing education and
maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills
Personnel
- Maintain good industrial relations
- Take reasonable care of his/her own safety and
that of other persons who may be affected by his/her act or omission
- Co-operation with the practice to ensure all
members of the team adheres to statutory regulations/policies and codes of
practice and departments safety rules
- Offer innovative ways of working and
opportunities to facilitate learning
- Facilitates a learning environment within the
team
- Maintains a caring environment through the
support of colleagues
- Acknowledgement of own professional
limitations and be able to seek professional advice from colleagues.
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 manage their own
and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice
Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, the
practice Infection Control policy and other 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 specimen process including collection, labelling,
handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport
arrangements
- Management and maintenance of Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice including provision, ordering,
availability and ongoing correct usage by staff
- Responsible for hand hygiene across the
practice
- 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, and initiate and manage the training of others across
the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment
in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand
cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical
working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- 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 business, and assuming
responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector
managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control
training (minimum twice annually)
- Routine management of own team / team areas,
and maintenance of work space standards
- Waste management including collection, handling,
segregation, container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and
training
- Decontamination control procedures, management
and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
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 recognises 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 recognise the importance of effective
communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team
members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise 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
- Discuss with other members of the team how the
policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- QOF (Chronic disease management)
- Experience working in a GP Practice
Desirable
- Experience in Cervical Cytology
- Experience in Family planning and Contraception
- Experience of EMIS Web
- Experience in advising / leading on Infection Control
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Post Graduate Diploma or Degree
- Independant Non Medical Prescriber (V300)
- Chronic Disease Diplomas
- Cervical Cytology Certificate
- Qualification in Contraception / Family Planning
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- QOF (Chronic disease management)
- Experience working in a GP Practice
Desirable
- Experience in Cervical Cytology
- Experience in Family planning and Contraception
- Experience of EMIS Web
- Experience in advising / leading on Infection Control
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Post Graduate Diploma or Degree
- Independant Non Medical Prescriber (V300)
- Chronic Disease Diplomas
- Cervical Cytology Certificate
- Qualification in Contraception / Family Planning
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
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).