Job responsibilities
Job
Description
Role
title: General
Practice Nurse Training Post (Northamptonshire)
Hours per week: 37.5
Job type: Fixed term 9 months (possibly to become substantive)
Grade: Agenda
for Change Band 5 (£24,907 PA)
Reports
to: GP partner
/ Senior Nurse for Clinical matters
Practice Manager for organisational
matters
Employer: Contract
of employment with the Practice
Base: The
post will be based at a local Northamptonshire GP practice but flexibility to
travel to the university and other primary care bases for additional experience
will be required
Brief
overview of role
General
Practice Nursing is a hugely rewarding area of nursing. You will help people to
manage their own conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, or cardiovascular
disease. You will help them to stay well and promote healthy lifestyles whilst
also assessing, screening, and treating people from small children to the
elderly.
We
are looking for General Practice Nurses
to join our dynamic forward thinking teams. You dont necessarily need previous experience in General
Practice Nursing as full training will be available for the right candidate.
You will need a valid NMC PIN and you
must already be a registered general nurse to apply (or must have these in
place by the end of August 2020).
These new roles provide a unique opportunity
that is ideal for newly qualified nurses, nurses who are returning to practice
or nurses wishing to transfer into a career in general practice. The role will
include employment from a host practice to develop practical clinical skills
and release 1 day a week to undertake training and development through a
structured training programme in readiness for a career in general practice.
We are supporting these roles through the
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership Training Hub and the posts will be
based at practices across the county.
The post will consist of:
Undertaking
a BSc or PGCert in General Practice Nursing at De Montfort University with
associated learning for 1 day a week for the duration of the 9 months university
programme (university component)
Exposure
to working in General Practice and increasing competence as a new GPN for 4
days a week (clinical component). During these 4 days, there will be practice
supervision as well as service delivery.
The
university component includes a range a range of teaching and learning
strategies and a commitment to self-directed study is essential. Learning
action plans and goals to be achieved will be agreed between the university
staff, the practice staff and the post holder.
Within
the clinical component, specific clinical support and supervision will be
agreed between the practice team and the post holder.
Main responsibilities
University Component:
Teacher-led sessions
Student-led seminars
and presentations
Discussions and
tutorials
Independent study
Focused reflection
A range of
experiential teaching methods
Commitment to engage
in required self-directed study to meet deadlines and assessments as required
and ensure learning in the classroom setting is translated into the workplace
environment
Identify where
insight into specific areas will contribute to learning and negotiate with the
practice team to support
Engage with
university assessors and clinical supervisors to maximise the potential for
learning and development
Be an advocate for
general practice nursing using every opportunity to raise awareness of the
speciality
Clinical Component:
Each Practice host employer will discuss clinical duties
with the post holder specific to their practice. However, it will be expected that:
The post holder will deliver high quality, compassionate
care and display attitudes and behaviours compatible with NHS Values and in
line with the NMC Code of Conduct
Participate in daily
supervision and de-brief with senior supporting nurse and / or GP
Seek appropriate
support to gain insight into specific clinical areas that will contribute to
learning
Participate in
practice based team meetings, multidisciplinary meetings and nurse meetings
contributing to these as appropriate
Engage in reflective
practice, learning from constructive feedback and maximising potential for
learning
Ensure compliance
with mandatory training requirements
