Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE, GMMMT and the BNF.
• Provide vaccination and travel medicine services.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process pathology results as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure read codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Develop, implement, and embed well woman clinics.
• Develop, implement, and embed NHS Health Check clinics.
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
• Maintain baby immunisation results logs.
• Maintain smears results logs.
• Manage emergency drug kit.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Chaperone patients where necessary.
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.).
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
• Effectively utilise the audit cycles.
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines.
• Support other members of the nursing team, providing guidance and support when necessary.
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
• Support and participate in shared learning within the practice.
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate.
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA).

Role Specification:

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Nursing degree or equivalent experience

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence in last 2 years

Post graduate diploma or degree (Primary Care) or Fellowship Programme

NMCs 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations

Experience

Essential

Desirable

6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years

Experience of chronic disease management

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Desirable

Immunisations (flu, routine, childhood, B12, travel)

Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)

Diabetes review

Hypertension

Cardiovascular disease primary prevention

Coronary Heart Disease

Ability to record accurate clinical notes

Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs

Cytology certificates

Travel medicine

Mental Health

ECGs

Venepuncture

New patient medicals

Chaperone procedure

Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly

Asthma

Spirometry

Understands the importance of evidence-based practice

Broad knowledge of clinical governance

Knowledge of public health issues in the local area

Awareness of issues within the wider health arena

Knowledge of health promotion strategies

Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy

General Skills

Essential

Desirable

Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

Strong IT skills

Clear, polite telephone manner

Competent in the use of Office and Outlook

Competent in the use of patient record management systems: EMIS

Competent in Document Management systems: Docman

Competent in other portals: Cytology Management System

Effective time management (Planning & Organising)

Ability to work as a team member and autonomously

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure

Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes

Experience with clinical risk management

Leadership and management skills, as part of a general practice nursing team with delegated accountability and responsibility for patient care

Evidence, research, and development - has an enquiring approach to practice to ensure best quality care is offered within any constraints of the service

Personal Qualities

Essential

Desirable

Polite and confident

Flexible and cooperative

Motivated, forward thinker

High levels of integrity and loyalty

Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations

Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations

Able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient

Commitment to ongoing professional development

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Effectively utilises resources

Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

This job description outlines the roles, duties, and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to detail all specific tasks.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• Nursing degree or equivalent experience
• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence in last 2 years
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Primary Care) or Fellowship Programme
• NMCs 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations

Desirable

• See full job description

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

Premier Health Team

Address

Bridgewater Medical Centre

Henry Street

Leigh

Lancashire

WN7 2PE

Employer's website

https://www.premierhealthteam.org/ (Opens in a new tab)