Job responsibilities
Please find below our job description training will be given if certain roles are not met
1 Screening
- Undertake opportunistic screening BP checks, height, weight, BMI, urinalysis, smoking status.
2 Health Promotion
- Provide healthy eating advice to individuals.
- Provide smoking cessation advice individually in opportunistic consultations.
- Provide individual advice to patients about increasing activity or exercise.
- Offer advice on recommended safe limits for alcohol consumption.
- Refer as appropriate.
3 Vaccinations and Immunisations
- Administer injections under an individualised prescription or Patient Group Direction.
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
- Provide an adult and childhood immunisation service.
- Develop and work to Patient Group Directions for POMs.
4 Infection Control
- Support patients and lead colleagues in adopting sound infection control measures.
- Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines. This includes :-
- Universal hygiene precautions.
- The collection and handling of laboratory specimens.
- Segregation and disposal of waste materials.
- Decontamination of instruments and clinical equipment.
- Reporting and treatment of sharps injuries.
- Dealing with blood and body fluid spillages.
5 Emergency Management
- Is competent in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques.
6 Child Health Protection
- Recognises the signs, symptoms and categories of child abuse.
- Understands the importance of recognition, observation, documentation and communication.
- Is aware of child health procedures, statutory local procedures and points of referral.
- Has knowledge of roles of other practitioners and agencies.
- Understands basic legal issues around child abuse.
7 Mens Health
- Raise awareness and give basic advice on issues covering :-
- Testicular self-examination.
- Incontinence and prostatic disease.
- Family planning.
- Sexual health.
- Initiate opportunistic consultations with patients to cover issues of mens health.
- Make appropriate referrals.
- Provide NHS Health checks.
8 Family Planning
- Advise patients on available methods of contraception and refer as appropriate.
- Support patients attending for emergency contraception and refer as appropriate.
- Perform interval health checks for patients using hormonal contraception.
- Teach patients correct condom use.
- Teach patients how to reduce risk of sexually transmitted diseases and refer as appropriate.
9 Womens Health
- Advise patients on the national and local cervical cytology and mammography screening programmes.
- Undertake a programme of cervical cytology sampling under supervision until competent.
- Audit a minimum of twenty consecutive smears each year to demonstrate adequate sampling rates.
- Promote breast self-awareness, demonstrate breast self-examination and provide supporting literature.
- Advise patients about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and make appropriate referrals.
- Take swabs for microscopy as directed.
- Give patients basic advice about peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms and make appropriate referrals.
- Advise on the increased peri-menopausal and post-menopausal risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.
- Offer health promotion / lifestyle advice to patients.
- Advise on basic incontinence management and make appropriate referrals.
- Provide NHS Health Checks
10 Travel Health Advice
- Offer a holistic approach to travel health including comprehensive advice for patients prior to travel including :-
- Vaccinations
- Malaria prophylaxis and bite avoidance.
- Safe sex.
- Food hygiene.
- Sun protection.
- First aid and emergency medication.
- Health insurance.
11 Chronic Disease Management
- The practice holds regular specialist practice nurse led chronic disease clinics (e.g. Diabetes & CHD).
- Assist and support with management of above clinics.
12 Wound Management
- Perform wound care using aseptic techniques.
- Undertake uncomplicated dressings, including leg ulcers.
- Suture and clip removal.
13 Minor Illness
- Assess and treat conditions presented by patients.
14 Venepuncture
- Take blood in line with local procedures.
15 Minor Surgery
- Provide support to GPs who perform Minor Surgery and fit IUCDs.
16 Personal and Professional Development
- Assist in clinical audit.
- Act as a mentor to other staff as required.
- Provide chaperone services to other clinicians.
- Work effectively in the team.
- Monitor and maintain the consistency of professional standards set.
- Take appropriate action if standards are not being met.
- Recognise the development needs of others.
- Support other members of the team.
- Participate in evidence based practice.
- Be aware of current evidence based approaches to patient care and demonstrate this in practice.
- Demonstrate clinical expertise in practice.
- Participate in clinical supervision.
- Attend and participate in Practice meetings when required