Bank Practice Nurse - Treatment Room

Primary Care North Cumbria; Whitehaven; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Mansion House Surgery in Whitehaven is seeking an enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join the team on a bank basis. The nurse will specialise in treatment room care, provide vaccinations and wound management, and support other nurses within a friendly, patient-centred GP practice.

The role involves organising and prioritising own workload, delivering care to NHS standards, and participating in health education activities with a forward-thinking multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse with current registration
• Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development
• Minimum 1 year post-registration
• Experience running treatment room clinics preferred
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care
• Respiratory work experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care in the treatment room, including wound care, vaccinations, and venepuncture.
• Support other nurses in the Practice team and participate in screenings and health education.
• Maintain accurate patient records and update computer records using templates.
• Work collaboratively with the nurse manager and clinical team to deliver care.
• Deliver care in line with NSF and NICE guidelines and evidence-based practice.
• Promote patient-centred care and ensure safety and consent in all procedures.

Skills

Teamworking

Health promotion

Clinical governance awareness

Education

Registered first level nurse

CPD commitment

Minimum 1 year post-registration

Tools

EMIS experience

Job description

Mansion House Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Practice Nurse who specialises in treatment room care and treatment. This is a bank vacancy with flexible weekly hours to be agreed.

We are a friendly, supportive, patient-centred and forward thinking GP surgery providing care to over 7,700 patients in the Copeland area. Our team includes three GP partners and three salaried GPs as well as a pharmacist, Care Coordinator, three nurses, three HCAs and three ANPs. Our clinicians are supported by an experienced administration team.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

Provides high-quality nursing care including wound management; administering vaccinations and medications; removal of sutures/staples; ECGs; blood pressure monitoring; urine testing; venepuncture; cytology; catheters and injections.

Support other nurses inthe Practice team

Undertake screening anddiagnostic procedures, promoting and being involved in Health Educationactivity

Receive and refer patients whenappropriate

Update the patients computerrecords by coding activities appropriately and at the time of the consultationusing templates where appropriate. Comply with computer based informationrequirements.

Produce accurate, contemporaneousand complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation,policies and procedures

Prioritise, organise and manageown workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality

Deliver care according to the NSFand the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines andevidence-based care

Understand and apply legal policythat supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults,being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance.

Work as aneffective and responsible team member

Liaise withthe nurse manager on all professional nursing issues.

About us

Overview of your organisation

Mansion House Surgery is a 7,700 patient training practice based in the centre of Whitehaven. The building is a Georgian built town house which has been structurally modified to provide clinical space and facilities. Whitehaven is an historic seaside town with pockets of deprivation which has experienced regeneration developments over the last few years.

Our practice values kindness, approachability, friendliness and compassion alongside high standards of clinical care. Our working environment is supportive and collaborative. We are a training practice and have a diverse clinical team including three Advanced Nurse Practitioners and a Clinical Pharmacist. We also teach medical students and GP Registrars. We work very much as a team and encourage and value everyone's contributions.

The practice has a shared belief in the delivery of high quality, patient centred and evidence based healthcare. There is a strong emphasis on continuity of care and a commitment to continue developing patient services.

We are a practice that performs well in QOF and other national and local agreed services and we currently hold a GOOD rating with the CQC. We are proud of having:

A supportive multi-disciplinary team on site

Highly skilled nursing team

Very good staff retention rates

A North Cumbria wide Ultrasound Service running clinics in our own surgery as well as local community based hospitals

A 24 ECG service for Copeland patients

Job responsibilities

Job summary:

Working underthe direct supervision of the lead practice nurse and strictly in accordancewith specific practice guidelines and protocols, the Practice Nurse willassist the practice clinical team in the provision and delivery of prescribedprogrammes of patient care.

Thepost holder is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effectivenursing services to the whole practice population. As a member of the clinicalnursing team the post holder is accountable for his/her own practice. To workindependently, supported by the clinical team within the practice they willdeliver care within the boundaries of their role, focusing upon supportingpatients to be healthy and specifically monitoring diabetes as a long-term healthcondition.

Key Duties andResponsibilities

Thepost holder will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meetthe needs of patients, supporting the delivery of both drug and non-drug basedtreatment plans following local and national policies and procedures whilstmanaging their own workload to deliver the practice priorities.

The TreatmentRoom nurse provides high-quality nursing care and clinical support within thetreatment room setting to the whole practice population. The role involvesperforming a wide range of nursing procedures, supporting clinicians in minorsurgeries and wound management, administering vaccinations and medications andensuring the safe, efficient and compassionate delivery of patient care. As amember of the clinical nursing team the post holder is accountable for his/herown practice. To work independently, supported by the clinical team within thepractice they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role.

Ensureand maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within thepractice environment and with external stakeholders.

Clinical

Adhere to DHSSPS and NMCguidelines for practice requirements and standards.

Adhere to Practice guidelines,policies and procedures.

Contribute to the development ofthe Practice policies and strategies, where appropriate.

Maintain own professional and personaldevelopment in accordance with the NMC Code (2008), standards and professionalguidelines.

Establish and maintainrelationships based on mutual respect communicating on a regular basis with thepatient, relatives and carers in the provision of care and services.

Support other nurses inthe Practice team

Undertake screening anddiagnostic procedures, promoting and being involved in Health Educationactivity

Receive and refer patients whenappropriate

Update the patients computerrecords by coding activities appropriately and at the time of the consultationusing templates where appropriate. Comply with computer based informationrequirements

Ensure all items of equipment aremaintained in good order, and ensure that all procedures for reporting hazardsor unsafe equipment are known and understood

Ensure economical and careful useof property and resources within the clinical team

Ensure diabetes evidence-basedcare is provided to agreed standards

Participatein developing, implementing and monitoring policies, procedures and protocols.

Support a culture of life-longlearning and reflective practice

Quality

Recognise and work within owncompetence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NursingMidwifery Council (NMC)

Produce accurate, contemporaneousand complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation,policies and procedures

Prioritise, organise and manageown workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality

Deliver care according to the NSFand the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines andevidence-based care

Understand and apply legal policythat supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults,being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance

Develop and maintain a culture ofperson-centred care within the team.

Promote a caring environmentwhere equality and diversity issues are respected and patients and their carersare enabled to be partners in their care.

Help to promote a culture ofcontinuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback andreflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Teamworking

Work as aneffective and responsible team member

Liaise withthe nurse manager on all professional nursing issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse
• Evidence of a commitment to
• continuing professional
• development
• Minimum 1 year post
• registration

Experience

• Previous experience in the
• running of treatment room clinics
• Knowledge of health promotion
• strategies
• Awareness of clinical governance
• issues in primary care
• EMIS experience
• Some experience of Respiratory work would also be an advantage but not essential

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.