PCN Practice Nurse - Kingstanding, Erdington & Nechells PCN

Job responsibilities

Role and Responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• The post holder will act within their professional boundaries to provide caring, compassionate holistic care for patients with a wide range of health needs. They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice
• Provide a FENO Testing service to appropriate patients across the PCN. Full Training for equipment will be provided
• Liaise with Respiratory Leads to improve the management and treatment of patients in this category
• Manage long-term conditions (e.g., asthma, COPD)
• Perform phlebotomy (if required)
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.)
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies gg. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately

Health Promotion & Education:

• Offer lifestyle advice on smoking cessation, weight management, and exercise.
• Educate patients on chronic disease management and self-care strategies.
• Liaise with Health and Well Being Coach where appropriate.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care

Administration & Record-Keeping:

• Maintain accurate patient records using clinical software systems.
• Contribute to local and national practice targets clinical remit (e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme, National benchmarking), complying with local and regional guidance
• Ensure compliance with infection control and health and safety policies.
• Participate in audit, effectively utilising the audit cycle
• Ensuring IPC compliance, undertaking audit as necessary
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Support and participate in shared learning within the organisation
• Develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead within the organisation
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and
• Initiatives where appropriate
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events

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, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.

This will 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
• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
• Reporting potential risks identified
• Waste management, including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection.

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 recognizes 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 which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development:

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

Personal Skills and Qualities

Essential

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and verbally
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent record keeping skills
• Time management skills
• Able to work calmly under pressure
• Ability to work on own initiative
• IT skills (including word processing and database work)
• Committed to quality and patient satisfaction
• Committed to equal opportunities
• Team worker

Other

Essential

• Flexibility & Adaptability
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role
• Access to own transport with business insurance and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
• Committed to working as part of a multidisciplinary, multi-agency primary care team
• Openness to explore alternative working practices
• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situation
• Professional attitude
• Approachable and flexible
• Honest and reliable
• Enthusiastic
• Committed to development & willing to undergo further training as the job develops

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with Nursing and midwifery Council and maintains revalidation in line with NMC requirements
• Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
• Meets NMC revalidation requirements in accordance with the NMC Revalidation booklet
• Holds more than one academic Level 6 diploma or postgraduate certification in long-term conditions care and/or public health initiatives
• Has demonstrable experience in leading long-term conditions management and quality improvement within a PCN;
• Is working at Registered Nurse Level Practice as described in the Primary Care and General Practice Nursing Career and Core Capabilities Framework.

Desirable

• Additional training in chronic disease management, or immunisations

Experience

Essential

• Job plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of supporting quality improvement and assurance initiatives:
• Supports public health and screening programmes, including immunisations, vaccinations, and cervical screening;
• Embeds population health management approaches within general practice, targeting health inequalities and improving access;
• Supports, mentors, and supervises new-to-practice nurses and other healthcare professionals within the PCN
• Works collaboratively across the PCN to enhance integration with community, secondary, and social care services.

Desirable

• Experience of working with Clinical systems for example, System One or EMIS
• Experience of leading long-term condition management across the PCN

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Experience in a primary care, community, or general practice setting
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Competence in using electronic patient record systems
• Strong patient care skills with a focus on empathy and compassion
• Understanding of current issues facing the NHS, general practice and PCNs
• Clinical knowledge and skills including:
• Hypertension
• Asthma
• CHD
• Understand the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and
• understand when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Polite and confident, flexible and cooperative
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area

Desirable

• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations as well as ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations

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).