Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen across two extremely well respected practices in north manchester - The Neville Family Medical Centre and Cheetham Hill Medical Centre - for a practice nurse to join our well established nursing team.
Main duties of the job
An integral part of the practice team, our practice nurses
offer a continuity of care for our patients supporting them with the management
of their long term conditions, as well as assisting in preventative condition
management also.
The role entails:
1.
Chronic Disease Management: Assist
in the management of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension,
and cardiovascular disease.
2.
Health Promotion and Education:
Educating patients about healthy lifestyle choices, preventive measures, and
disease management strategies is a significant aspect of their role.
3.
Screening and Preventive Care: Conduct
various screening tests such as blood pressure checks, cholesterol screening,
cervical smears, and mammograms, as well as facilitation of immunisation
programs, including childhood vaccinations and flu.
4.
Continuing Professional Development: Staying
updated with the latest medical advancements, attending training sessions, and
pursuing continuing education opportunities are essential for GP practice
nurses to maintain their knowledge and skills.
The nursing team is very well supported across the two sites
with three other Nurses, three healthcare assistants, one further trainee
healthcare assistant, as well as a trainee nursing associate.
About us
Although two separate practices, the Neville Family Medial Centre and Cheetham Hill Medical Centre work very closely due to Dr Asad Bokhari (lead GP across both practices) and Mike Neville (Senior Manager across both practices) both lead on the strategy and operations over the two.
Cheetham Hill MC currently has over 19,700 patients; and the Neville FMC currently has just over 5,500 registered patients.
The nursing team is very well supported across the two sites with three other practice nurses, three healthcare assistants, one further trainee healthcare assistant, and one trainee nursing associate.
With a work hard ethic coupled with friendly and supportive atmosphere, our team thrives both for each other as well as for our patients.
The support our nursing team has extends also from 13 GP's, 1 ANP, 3 pharmacists, 2 PA's and over 30 people in the admin and management team across the two sites - meaning that there is always someone there to help.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: PRACTICE NURSE
REPORTS TO: Lead GP (Clinically)
Managing Partner (Administratively)
HOURS: TBC
Job summary:
Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.
The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.
The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately.
Duties and responsibilities:
Management of chronic disease
- Identifying significant abnormalities
- Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals.
Therapeutic monitoring
- Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic patient-centred approach
- Recognising abnormalities
- Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
Patient health checks
- Identifying significant abnormalities
- Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
- Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified.
Risk assessment
- Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g., drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)
Health screening
- Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g., womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
- Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g., smears) and providing advice as appropriate
- Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.
Travel health
- Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
- Identifying problems
- Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.
Immunisation (adult and child)
- Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
- Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
First contact
- Working independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/ recommendations as appropriate.
Ear care
- Providing routine ear care
- Dealing with more complex problems and prescribing if appropriate.
Mental health
- Communicating with key workers
- Administering appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.
Confidentiality:
- While 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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and 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; regulatory / contractual / professional requirements; and good practice guidelines
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens 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 way, safe and free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting 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 workspace 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
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development requirements for PREP are met, 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 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.
- 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 DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: PRACTICE NURSE
REPORTS TO: Lead GP (Clinically)
Managing Partner (Administratively)
HOURS: TBC
Job summary:
Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.
The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.
The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately.
Duties and responsibilities:
Management of chronic disease
- Identifying significant abnormalities
- Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals.
Therapeutic monitoring
- Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic patient-centred approach
- Recognising abnormalities
- Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
Patient health checks
- Identifying significant abnormalities
- Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
- Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified.
Risk assessment
- Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g., drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)
Health screening
- Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g., womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
- Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g., smears) and providing advice as appropriate
- Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.
Travel health
- Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
- Identifying problems
- Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.
Immunisation (adult and child)
- Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
- Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
First contact
- Working independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/ recommendations as appropriate.
Ear care
- Providing routine ear care
- Dealing with more complex problems and prescribing if appropriate.
Mental health
- Communicating with key workers
- Administering appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.
Confidentiality:
- While 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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and 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; regulatory / contractual / professional requirements; and good practice guidelines
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens 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 way, safe and free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting 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 workspace 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
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development requirements for PREP are met, 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 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.
- 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the NMC.
Desirable
- - Previous experience as a practice nurse in a General Practice setting
- - Certified to complete cervical smears
Experience
Essential
- - Experience of working within a nursing team
- - Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- - Experience of working in primary care
- - Experience of working in a GP practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the NMC.
Desirable
- - Previous experience as a practice nurse in a General Practice setting
- - Certified to complete cervical smears
Experience
Essential
- - Experience of working within a nursing team
- - Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
Desirable
- - Experience of working in primary care
- - Experience of working in a GP practice
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
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).