Job summary
We are looking for a dedicated
and experienced Practice Nurse to join our welcoming team in a small,
community-focused GP practice. This is a fantastic opportunity to provide
high-quality patient care in a supportive environment.
Role Details
Qualified to perform cervical smears
Competent in childhood vaccinations
Band 6, or Band 7 if a qualified prescriber
Part-time: 2-3 days per week.Evening work available if desired
What We Offer
Competitive NHS salary (Band 6/7)
Friendly and supportive practice team
Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
Flexible working options, including evening shifts
If you're passionate about
delivering excellent patient care and want to work in a close-knit team, we'd
love to hear from you!
Apply now or contact us for more information.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the
delivery of general practice nursing to the whole population.
As team leader for the Healthcare Assistant, GPA and Phlebotomists, the post holder is accountable for nursing service delivery. The focus of the
role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting
with a long-term condition, and the provision of preventative health care to
the practice population. As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible
for the care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical
decision-making in the management of patients.
They will work collaboratively within the general practice team to meet
the requirements of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures,
and provide leadership as required.
About us
This is a Practice Nurse position in a high performing, well run, innovative, supportive, and small
practice based in the centre of Burscough, Lancashire.
Approximately 3100 Registered Patients
Excellent management of GP & Nursing Appointment Capacity
Delivering Enhanced Services such as Minor
Surgery, Joint Injections, Sexual Health / Coil Services, Anticoagulation (INR)
in addition to providing Point of Care Ultrasound and Phlebotomy
Excellent feedback on Patient Survey, NHS
Choices and CQC Rating of Good
High QoF Achievement
Active member of the Northern Parishes Primary
Care Network (PCN)
Development opportunities in specialist areas of
interests e.g. sexual health, minor procedures, teaching and training
Supportive Administration and Clinical team including Prescribing Pharmacist, GPA, HCA and Phlebotomists
Collaborative working with PCN ARRS roles based
in practice: Physiotherapist, Paramedic and Clinical Pharmacist
General Clinical, Laboratory and Management Tasks
under control with team working.
Use of EMIS, Accurx and the usual Windows Suite.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well being
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition as appropriate
- Work with other health professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including non-drug based treatment methods using a management plan, and in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence based practice and national and practice protocols
- Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- 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 promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of care
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adult and children
- Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling aboard
- Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
Communication
- Demonstrate sensitive communication style to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients 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
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to NSF, 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 practice
- Utilise the audit cycles a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients response to the health care provision and effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the management and review of patient complaints and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework
- Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- 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 regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Management function
- Identify the nursing requirement to meet the practice population need, assessing the impact and implementation of skill-mix in the delivery of care
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information from the team
- Communicate essential financial restraints with the team and discuss with them ideas for effective and efficient working within these constraints
- On going monitoring of HCAs / Phlebotomists work and their developmental needs.
Leadership personal and people development
- Take responsibility for own development learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model
- Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
- Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency and actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services
- Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of GPN services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility
- Work with practice management to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix are available to meet current and future service delivery
- Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards
- Participate in the planning and engagement of practice practice-based commissioning or similar initiatives
- Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate
Team working
- Understand own role and scope, identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessing competence
- Ensure clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient need
- Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team
- 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 legalisation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
- Support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
- 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 to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using the internet , for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team to enhance care
Learning and development
- Act as a mentor for relevant staff , assessing competence against set standards as requested
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Provide and educational role to patients, cares, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
- Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
- Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical practice
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well being
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition as appropriate
- Work with other health professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including non-drug based treatment methods using a management plan, and in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence based practice and national and practice protocols
- Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication regimens, side-effects and interactions
- 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 promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of care
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adult and children
- Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling aboard
- Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
Communication
- Demonstrate sensitive communication style to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate with and support patients 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
- Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
- Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Deliver care according to NSF, 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 practice
- Utilise the audit cycles a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate the patients response to the health care provision and effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Participate in the management and review of patient complaints and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework
- Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- 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 regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Management function
- Identify the nursing requirement to meet the practice population need, assessing the impact and implementation of skill-mix in the delivery of care
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information from the team
- Communicate essential financial restraints with the team and discuss with them ideas for effective and efficient working within these constraints
- On going monitoring of HCAs / Phlebotomists work and their developmental needs.
Leadership personal and people development
- Take responsibility for own development learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model
- Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
- Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency and actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services
- Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of GPN services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility
- Work with practice management to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix are available to meet current and future service delivery
- Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards
- Participate in the planning and engagement of practice practice-based commissioning or similar initiatives
- Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate
Team working
- Understand own role and scope, identify how this may develop over time
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessing competence
- Ensure clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient need
- Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team
- 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 legalisation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
- Support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
- 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 to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Manage information searches using the internet , for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
- Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
- Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team to enhance care
Learning and development
- Act as a mentor for relevant staff , assessing competence against set standards as requested
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Provide and educational role to patients, cares, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
- Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
- Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
Person Specification
Other Skillls and Experience
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Flexibility
- Enthusiasm
- Team player
- Ability to work across boundaries
- Car driver
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse
- Community nursing specialist qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Nurse Prescribing Qualification
- Asthma diploma
- COPD diploma
- Diabetic diploma
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years recent primary and community nursing experience
- Experience of nurse-led management of long term conditions
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Project management
- Working with community development initiatives
- Health-needs assessment
Person Specification
Other Skillls and Experience
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Flexibility
- Enthusiasm
- Team player
- Ability to work across boundaries
- Car driver
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse
- Community nursing specialist qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Nurse Prescribing Qualification
- Asthma diploma
- COPD diploma
- Diabetic diploma
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years recent primary and community nursing experience
- Experience of nurse-led management of long term conditions
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Project management
- Working with community development initiatives
- Health-needs assessment
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).