General Practice Nurse

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking an exceptional Practice Nurse to manage long-term conditions and lead clinical areas. The ideal candidate will have experience working within the NHS, possess strong clinical leadership skills, and the ability to support their team effectively. Responsibilities include ensuring quality care delivery, mentoring staff, and engaging in quality improvement initiatives. This role offers flexible working conditions and a supportive environment focused on professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working

Protected study leave

6-month mentorship/induction package

Qualifications

• Experience of working within the NHS.
• Experience of nurse led management of long term conditions.
• Audit experience.
• Knowledge of accountability of roles in a nurse led service.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support to the nursing team.
• Improve service delivery through innovative approaches.
• Manage complex patient care and ensure effective communication across teams.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Change management

Cervical cytology

Immunisation and vaccination

Education

Registered Part 1 NMC

Degree Level or equivalent experience

NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional Practice Nurse with extensive experience in Long term Conditions Management. You will work closely with our Quality Lead to ensure the Practice achieves Q.O.F. and other Quality targets whilst also leading in a clinical area of your choosing. As a Practice Nurse you will support other Practice Nurses within the team, Nurse Associates and Clinical Support Workers.

Main duties of the job

This role requires consolidation of specialist knowledge and skills in general practice nursing demonstrating a depth of knowledge, understanding and competence that supports evidenced informed, complex, autonomous and independent decision-making, and care in general practice and related settings. Those new to this role will need a period of preceptorship. This role will require personal resilience, management, clinical leadership and supervision and mentorship of others in the general practice nursing team and providing an effective learning environment for staff and students in the wider team. The role will require an innovative approach in supporting and developing new models and strategies for service delivery, usually incorporating inter-professional and inter-agency approaches to monitor and improve care. General Practice Nurses deliver care to the practice population, but also need to have an understanding of the public health profile and population needs in order to be proactive in ensuring services are, as far as possible, matched to need.

About us

Brownlow Health is a large City Centre organisation in Liverpool with a patient population of 80,000. We have attained outstanding in our most recent CQC inspection and have been shortlisted for five awards in this years General Practice Awards including Nursing Team of the Year

Our large Nursing Team have proactively responded not only to the diverse needs of our patient population but also to the challenges of General Practice nurse recruitment and GP workload. The team have successfully developed a range of new and innovative non-traditional primary care roles which we believe are unique to most General Practices. These have included: Diabetes and Respiratory Specialist Nurse roles, Mental Health Practitioners, Sexual Health Nurses, Homeless in reach nurses and a Nurse led Frailty Team.

We offer our team numerous benefits and put staff well being at the core. We offer flexible working and protected study leave with financial allowance. You will receive a 6-month mentorship/induction package and salary and annual leave in line with Agenda for Change.

Brownlow is an organisation that is committed to equality and diversity, and we strive for our workforce to be representative and inclusive of the complex and diverse community which we are proud to serve.

If you are successful at interview and are registered with any of the Brownlow sites, you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

Job responsibilities

This role requires the ability to work independently and collaboratively, using freedom to exercise judgement about actions while accepting professional accountability and responsibility. This requires:

Enhanced critical thinking and ability to critically analyse a broad range of policies, literature and evidence to support clinical practice.

Ability to analyse service provision in relation to both quality assurance and quality monitoring, and to focus on patient outcomes wherever possible.

Strong clinical leadership of the team and clarity of expectation of team members with respect to quality of care delivery and values inherent in nursing practice. Emotional intelligence to recognise pressures on staff and the development of mechanisms to support and develop staff to recognise the impact of caring for people who may be experiencing complex healthcare issues.

Enhanced knowledge of the local community and needs and resources available, and the ability to signpost people to appropriate resources.

Ability to work collaboratively with others to meet local public health needs for individuals, groups and the wider community. Build strong relationships with the secondary care teams, particularly for patients receiving shared care, to ensure an effective flow of patient information to ensure high-quality care.

Ability to reflect in action and be actively engaged with the NMC revalidation process both for themselves and for others.

Facilitation of Learning:

Actively contributing to a variety of professional networks and sharing learning from these:

Development of effective team systems for on-going supervision and promotion of clinical reflection for all staff, preceptor ship programmes and mentorship.

Identify and support the learning needs of individuals or the team in response to personal development needs identified at appraisal or service need.

Evaluate the impact of educational interventions.

Where appropriate, participate in teaching and student selection in higher education institutions and/or other education organisations.

Develop a positive learning environment for students and the staff team, giving and receiving feedback in an open, honest and constructive manner.

Leadership & Management:

Clinical leadership of the team, recognising the stressors encountered in general practice nursing and developing systems to ensure team members continue to build resilience.

Work effectively across professional and agency boundaries, actively involving and respecting others contributions.

Role modelling of the values expected in Compassion in Practice (2014) and the values and behaviours of effective leaders.

Enhanced and advanced general practice nursing clinical expertise to guide the nursing team in the management of patients with complex needs.

Ability to manage the workload effectively and develop business cases where appropriate in response to changing demands.Display an innovative approach to practice, encouraging other team members and, where possible, patients and service users, to contribute and, where appropriate, instigate and evaluate a managed change process.

Ensuring the team is risk aware when working with patients, and health and safety aware within the surgery. Develop regularly reviewed systems to ensure risk is managed safely and effectively. Develop a learning culture within the immediate team to improve patient safety and ensure staff are supported and can learn from and in future prevent untoward incidents.

Awareness and application of appropriate legislation that informs nursing and healthcare delivery.

Ability to work independently but also to co-ordinate, delegate and supervise team members for a designated group of patients.

Undertaking performance management when appropriate. Management of the nursing team within ethical and policy frameworks and knowledge and application of human resource law to enable effective staff management.

Ensuring care and service delivery meets quality requirements but be actively involved in quality improvement strategies and service development innovations.

Ability to demonstrate political awareness and translate policy into practice, demonstrating knowledge and awareness of healthcare commissioning and contracting mechanisms and systems, awareness of health and social policy contexts and local variations, and be skilled in developing effective external relationships with a variety of health, social and third sector agencies, recognising the importance of working within a governance framework.

Where appropriate take delegated responsibility for the management of a budget that may include the purchasing of assets, equipment or other resources and staff costs.

Where appropriate participate in clinical trials and research projects.

Ensure active management of the workload, taking into consideration public health priorities and local community health needs and changing demographics.

Participate in public health strategies where these are aligned to the practice population and work collaboratively with others to undertake risk stratification, case management and other strategies developed to improve health or avoid hospitalisation.

Evidence, Research & Development:

Ability to access databases and other information sources and critically appraise information.

Contribution to the development of local guidelines and policy locally and regionally, and nationally where appropriate.

Participation in research-related activity such as audit, data gathering and patient feedback.

Sharing of information and practice development through a range of means including writing for publication.

National Institute for Health Research: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/

Information Governance Framework: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/tsd/ig/

Leadership and Management learning activities

Clinical Practice:

Demonstrate specialist competence, innovation and clinical leadership in the assessment, intervention in and delivery of general practice nursing in all contexts appropriate to individuals needs across the whole age range for the general practice population. This requires:

Ability to assess and manage the range of conditions encountered in general practice using a variety of assessment tools and consultation models appropriate to the patient and situation using physical and clinical examination skills to inform the assessment and decision-making for the on-going management of the patient.

Advanced communication skills that include skills of influencing and negotiation to enable information to be delivered in understandable formats for patients and behaviour change supported where necessary.

Effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency team working, alongside the ability to work independently and accept professional accountability and responsibility for the delivery of whole episodes of care, and supporting and developing others in the general practice nursing team to collaborate effectively, ensuring nursing care is guided by precedent and clearly defined policies, procedures and protocols.

Delivery and co-ordination of evidence-informed, person-centred and negotiated care across the age spectrum.

Use of technology to support independence and patient self-care at home to improve self-care and reduce exacerbations

Role modelling and embodiment of non-judgemental, value-based care encompassing the 6Cs44 in practice and expectation and promotion of these values in other team members.

Competence in delivering evidence-informed care across a wide range of minor acute and LTCs, ensuring effective evaluation of therapeutic and other approaches to condition management alongside ability to assess patient concordance.

Confidentiality:

Working within the trust you may gain knowledge of confidential matters which may include personal and medical information about patients and staff. Such information must be considered strictly confidential and must not be discussed or disclosed. Failure to observe this confidentiality could lead to disciplinary action being taken against you.

Codes of Conduct and Accountability:

You are expected to comply with relevant CCG/NHS Merseyside codes of conduct and accountability.

Other job locations:

Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY

Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

Person Specification

Attributes and Behaviours

• A complete finisher.
• Resilience and drive
• Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
• Flexibility
• Resourceful
• Calm and resolute under pressure.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
• Political awareness.
• Full driving licence.

Qualifications

• Registered Part 1 NMC
• Educated to degree Level or equivalent experience
• Successful completion of post registration accredited foundation course in general practice nursing at level 6 or 7 and able to meet RCGP Practice Nurse competencies .
• NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification Practice Nurse

Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS.
• Experience of nurse led management of long term conditions
• Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
• Audit Experience
• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Ability to identify the determinants of health in the local area
• Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance, confidentiality, data protection and Information Governance
• Knowledge of the safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply these

Skills

• Clinical leadership
• Clinical skills e.g cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
• Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
• Communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting

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.