Practice Nurse, chronic disease

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

Undertake the general duties of a Practice Nurse focusing on Chronic Disease

Be competent to be able to offer chronic disease management to support the practice in achieving quality indicators and targets of QOF, LIS and DES including COPD/Asthma/Heart Failure/Diabetes

Carry out childhood immunisations

Hold a non-medical prescribing qualification, or willingness to undertake training to achieve this

Competent to offer travel health, advice and vaccinations with the potential to lead on Yellow Fever management across the practice

General treatment room duties which includes wound management and minor injuries

To offer family planning and contraceptive advice as required

Qualified to undertake cytology screening

To provide appropriate treatment to the practice population in accordance with practice protocols and procedures

Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidance

Maintain accurate records and document consultations according to local and NMC guidelines

Ensure awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral including child protection strategies

To work in accordance with PGDs and support HCAs working to PSDs

To liaise with other members of the primary health care team as required

General Duties

To ensure accurate patient details and consultations are recorded accurately on EMIS

To Chaperone for the GPs if requested to do so

Actively participate in nursing meetings, following up actions as required

Responsibility for standard operating procedures (SOPs) and policies within own area of work and ensuring these are kept up to date

Liaising with other team members regarding changes to service

Ensuring annual leave is covered with other staff members in advance and informing the Practice Manager of any staff shortages

Educational

Participate in continuing education as identified whether personally or by the Practice to maintain a high level of professional knowledge and skills

Promote the continuing professional development of yourself and other nurses and healthcare assistants, facilitating a learning culture within the team

Offer innovative ways of working and opportunities to facilitate learning

Communication

Practice staff 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

Work Setting and Review

• Works under own initiative, seeking advice either clinically or managerially as required
• Recognising work within own competence and other requirements as regulated by the NMC
• Ability to prioritise duties to ensure patient needs are met

Individual Responsibilities

Attendance and completion of mandatory training as directed by the practice

Adhere to practice policies and procedures

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Identify personal development and training needs in conjunction with clinical lead and Practice Manager
• Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrate skills and activities to other team members who undertake similar work
• 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

Practice staff will comply with all policies in relation to Health and safety and ensure they complete any mandatory training as advised by the Practice Manager.

Maintain an up to date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation across the business.

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business, conduct risk assessments as required.
• Any employee who intentionally or recklessly misuses anything supplied in the interests of health and safety will be subject to disciplinary procedures.

Information Governance

Practice staff must keep up-to-date with the requirements of information governance and must follow practice policies and procedures to ensure information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage the records they create or hold during the course of their employment with the practice, making the records available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to statutory requirements and agreed security and confidentiality policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g. Freedom of Information Act 2000, Caldicott guidelines). If you are required to make entries into health records, you must ensure these entries are legible and attributable, and that record keeping is contemporaneous.

Equality and diversity:

Practice staff 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.

Quality:

Practice staff 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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in minimum of two long term conditions
• Previous experience in Primary Care minimum 3 years

Desirable

• Previous experience as a practice nurse

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse
• Membership of a professional body
• Minimum 3 years post registration

Desirable

• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Qualification in travel vaccine management including yellow fever

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Castlegate & Derwent Surgery

Address

Cockermouth Health Centre

Isle Road

Cockermouth

Cumbria

CA13 9HT

Employer's website

https://www.castlegateandderwentsurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)