Job responsibilities
SW Healthcare
SW Healthcare is a GP federation
and provider of community-based healthcare services to NHS patients within
South Worcestershire. The organisation utilises the excellent clinical
expertise that already resides within the local NHS environment and harnesses
it with efficient administration pathways to provide
patients with more convenient and accessible services. We hope that by doing
this we will not only deliver pathway improvements to patients but also go some
way to relieving the growing volume pressures that are being experienced within local hospitals and GP practices.
Job Purpose
SW Healthcare is looking to
recruit a Nurse Associate to work across the four GP practices in Malvern Town
PCN . Your role may be focused on a particular cohort of patients for example
one of the roles is in our newly developed care home team or a more general
role working with people of all ages.
The post holder will have
completed their Nurse Associate training and be registered with the NMC able to
work independently under the leadership of a practice nurse.
As a Nurse Associate you will
contribute to most aspects of general practice nursing providing hands - on
person centred care, working as part of a multidisciplinary team your main
duties will cover promoting health and preventing ill health, delivering and
monitoring care, contributing to the delivery of integrated care and improving
the safety and quality of care.
The role offers an excellent next
step for Health Care Assistants looking for career progression who want to move
from task and protocol-based care to delivering more holistic and patient
centred care. Beyond this, the role
provides a good progression route into graduate level nursing.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Promoting health and preventing ill
health
Provide continuing care to patients in Nursing
and Residential Care Homes within Malvern Town PCN
Monitoring and support of the management of patients
with long-term conditions / chronic diseases, using a holistic patient centred
approach
Support the co-ordination and management of
patient cohorts to ensure they receive the appropriate level of care and that
indicators such as QOF are achieved
Working in teams
Chaperone patients when required
Assist in the training and development
of other staff, in particular Healthcare Assistants and Trainee Nursing Associates in line with professional
competencies for the role
Communicate effectively
with other members of the primary health care team across the Network.
Attend relevant meetings as directed.
Providing and monitoring care
Provide continuing care across the primary care population, assigned cohort of the
Networks population or to specific GP practice
populations
Clinical duties in line with competency e.g. Suture/clip removal, basic and complex wound care, ECG. Phlebotomy,
Urinalysis
Warfarin monitoring
Being an accountable professional
Recognise and work within the
limits of your competence
Be responsible for own actions
Engage in reflective practice including
management of self and reflection on own reactions, asking questions and
reflecting on answers given
Use knowledge and experience to make
evidence-based decisions and solve problems.
Act professionally at all times
Improving quality and safety of care
Participate in quality improvement
initiatives
Support and participate in shared
learning across the Primary Care Network
Contributing to integrated care
Support patients to improve and maintain their
mental and physical health and wellbeing signposting to available services that
can support the patients needs
OTHER RESPONSBILITIES
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 careers, 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.
Health
& Safety
The
post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others
health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety
Policy, to include:
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;
Making effective use of training to update
knowledge and skills;
Using appropriate infection control
procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from
hazards;
Reporting potential risks identified.
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;
Personal/Professional
Development
In
addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses
and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development
requirements 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, annual Appraisal 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 Clinical
Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis
reviews
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. He/she will also contribute to the overall team-working of the Practice
putting the needs of the Practice first.
Contribution
to the planning and 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.
Work with the Lead GP(s) to achieve standards
of quality, performance standards, without compromising levels of patient
healthcare.
Contribute towards the development and
implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are/will be
required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by NHS/ DoH/, new
legislation etc.)
Communication
Be able to effectively communicate at all
levels of the organisation to a variety of health professionals, users and
carers, independent and voluntary sector to provide the best outcomes for users
of the services.
Provide
interface between hospital, primary, community and social settings, participate
where appropriate in clinical meetings relating to patient care and outcomes
Communicate effectively with patients and
carers
Be able to keep accurate contemporaneous
documentation, both written and computerised, inpatient records and will need
to be familiar with EMIS Web.
Recognise peoples needs for alternative
methods of communication and respond accordingly
Clinical
Governance
To participate and operate within the clinical
governance framework for the organisation at all times, incorporating service
users and carers, audit, guidelines and risk management.
To actively participate in the practices, becoming familiar with and
abiding by its plans, policies and procedures.
This job description may be reviewed in the light of changing
organisational and service needs. Any changes will be fully discussed with the
post holder. The post holder may also be required to carry out other work
appropriate to the grade of the post.
LOCATION
The role will mostly be based in Malvern Town member practices and will require some travel amongst PCN
member practices and business meeting locations in Worcestershire. The post holder should
be flexible in their working hours which may include some evening and weekend
work.
