Trust Primary Care Ltd

Practice Nurse - Newly Qualified / New to Primary Care

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Job summary

This is a 12 month scheme. You will be employed by the training hub on a fixed term 12 month contract with an annual salary of £25,000 (includes access to the NHS pension scheme). During the 12 months you will be placed for two 6 month blocks in different GP practices. These will be practices that are well set up for and approved as centres of excellence in education and training. In the first 6 months of the scheme you will complete a number of short courses to gain practical skills including Basic life support, phlebotomy, vaccinations & Immunisations, wound care, ECG and ear syringing. In second six months you will complete one of the long term conditions (LTC) diplomas with the primary care training centre (Respiratory, diabetes, cardiovascular or womens health). Throughout the 12 months there will be a monthly peer group learning session where the whole group come together to learn and share though action learning sets.

Main duties of the job

To be productive as GP Practice Nurse (GPN) there are a number of practical skills that need to be learnt post qualification. For many GP practices that only have one or two practice nurses the impact on their day to day productivity of employing a nurse new to general practice for the 6 to 12 months it takes to develop those skills along with the time required to mentor and develop that nurse makes it challenging for many practices to take on nurses in this situation. The training hub has developed a training scheme that will bring in a number of new nurses to primary care and provide them with the core skills needed to be a GPN so that they can be employed and immediately productive in a GP practice at the need of the scheme.

About us

You need to be a qualified and registered nurse, ideally newly or recently qualified and be new to primary care. We are looking to recruit a cohort of 12 nurses to be based across West Yorkshire. There will be three placements in each of the 4 areas of Leeds, Bradford & Airedale, Wakefield and Calderdale/Kirklees/Greater Huddersfield. We will try and accommodate nurses with placements as close to home but you need to be prepared to travel across West Yorkshire. We are looking to recruit nurses for a start date on the scheme of the 1st March 2021.

Date posted

17 December 2020

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0320-20-0052

Job locations

Bowling Highfield Medical Practice

Rooley Lane

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD4 7SS

Job description

Job responsibilities

LOCATION: Bradford & Airedale, Leeds, Wakefield & Calderdale/Kirklees/Greater Huddersfield

This is a training post and the the post holder must take responsibility in attending all training courses provided.

To be part of the Practice Health Care team providing high quality and forward thinking nursing care to meet the holistic healthcare needs of the practice population. To work within NMC Code of Conduct and to agreed practice standards and protocols.

The Practice Nurse will have support from their work place mentor to be accountable for their own professional actions.

After relevant training, undertakes procedures to include, venepuncture, glucose tolerance tests, BP checks, urinalysis, peak flow, new patient health checks, pregnancy testing, stitch/clip removal, ear syringing.

Recognises and understands the importance of observing, documenting and communicating the signs and symptoms of child and adult abuse.

Undertakes regular checking of all resuscitation equipment.

Works within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, patient group directions.

Enables, encourages and supports individuals, families and groups to address issues which affect their health and social well-being.

Represents individuals and families interests when they are not able to do so themselves.

Develops and maintains the health promotion material within the practice.

Makes referrals to statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate.

The Practice Nurse has a role in promoting good leadership for all grades of staff

Contributes to the development, monitoring and evaluation of care delivery by the Primary Health Care Team.

Promotes effective communication and relationships within the team.

Partakes in clinical supervision for own development.

Actively participates in clinical and practice meetings.

Develops own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service.

Contributes to practice policy development as required.

Monitors and uses resources appropriately within the team e.g. dressings, vaccines, stationery.

Makes effective use of the clinical system by ensuring the consistent and accurate entering of data and use of Read Codes.

Facilitates the use of up to date information technology in order to collate accurate and timely information as and when required by the Primary Care Trust.

Makes recommendations to raise standards of practice and service delivery.

Frequent exposure to body fluids, blood and wounds.

Occasional exposure to aggressive behaviour.

Potential requirement to travel between sites.

All members of staff are bound by the requirements of the Data protection Act 1998 and any breaches of the Act or of the confidential nature of the work of this post could lead to dismissal.

The post holder must comply at all times with the practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the PCT and practices Risk Incident Reporting System.

The post holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.

The post holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.