PCN Nursing Associate

Chastleton Medical Group; North East; In loco; GBP 30.000 - 38.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Chastleton Medical Group is inviting applications for a PCN Nursing Associate to join our close-knit practice near Durham. You will support registered nurses to enable focus on more complex clinical care while working across the PCN network.

The role involves delivering high-quality, holistic, person-centred care, maintaining patient records, and contributing to safety and quality improvements within a supportive MDT environment.

Competenze

• Registered nursing associate on the NMC register.
• Two-year Foundation Degree delivered by an NMC-approved provider.
• Experience in primary care is desirable.

Mansioni

• Deliver compassionate care under supervision with focus on complex care tasks.
• Provide holistic, person-centred care and routine patient care.
• Maintain accurate clinical records with SNOMED codes.
• Assist with immunisations, venepuncture, ECGs after training.
• Work within the PCN MDT to integrate nursing associate duties.

Conoscenze

Teamwork

Holistic care

Communication

Clinical observations

Formazione

Nursing Associate registration (NMC)

Foundation Degree (NMC approved)

Strumenti

SystmOne

Descrizione del lavoro

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a PCN Nursing Associate to join ourfriendly and supportive practice team. Chastleton is a long-established,successful training practice with a list size of 10500 patients, set justoutside of Durham city. You will be joining us at an exciting time as we focuson adapting to the current changes within the NHS to provide the highestpossible standard of holistic patient care.

Main duties of the job

ThePCN Nursing Associate works alongside a team within general practice and withinthe Primary Care Network. The post-holder will be an integral part of thegeneral practice team, working as and when required in each organisation andacross the network. The principal task is to support registered nurses toenable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care of patients.

Please see the attached job description and person specification attached for further details.

About us

Chastleton Medical Group is a well established, forward thinking GP practice serving approximately 10,500 patients in the heart of Durham City. We are a paperless SystmOne practice with an excellent reputation for patient care, strong performance and a supportive team culture.

Job responsibilities

Thefollowing are the core responsibilities of the PCN Nursing Associate indelivering health services. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carryout other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload andstaffing levels:

• Deliver high quality,compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical and care tasks underthe direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professionaldependent on PCN) with a focus on promoting good health and independence
• Provide high-qualityholistic and person-centred care to individuals
• Provide routine care topatients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and theNSF
• Provide wound care,dressings and other clinical tasks as required
• Work as part of thePCNs MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
• Improve safety andquality of care at every opportunity
• Contribute to thedelivery of integrated care
• Work with the PCN MDTto ensure the delivery of Nursing Associate duties complements the existingworkforce
• Work with a supervisor to take responsibilityfor developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practiceskills within the workplace and enable the Nursing Associate to dealeffectively with the difficult issues that people present
• Provide support andsupervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprenticesand those on learning assignments/placements as required
• Support registerednurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
• Develop relationshipsacross the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and socialcare including primary care, secondary care and mental health
• Maintain accurate andcontemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data isappropriately recorded with SNOMED codes
• Perform and recordclinical observations, including appropriate coding, such as blood pressure,temperature, respirations and pulse
• After undertakingadditional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and otherrelevant clinical tasks as required by the PCN in line with the competencies ofthe role
• Promote the health andwellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
• Provide wound care(ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients
• Provide support duringminor operations as required
• Advise patients ongeneral healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, includingsignposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community andvoluntary sector services
• Communicate proactivelyand effectively with all MDT colleagues across the PCN, attending andcontributing to meetings as required
• Beaware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhereto practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and SafeguardingChildren
• Process pathologyresults as required
• Enhance own performancethrough continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge andbehaviours to meet the needs of the service
• Contribute to andembrace the spectrum of clinical governance
• Attend a formalappraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once aperformance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on aregular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
• Contribute towards publichealth and screening programmes, including immunisations and vaccinations,including the childhood immunisation programme
• Support and deliverhealth promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery
• Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
• Be an integral part ofthe general practice team, working in each practice and across the PCN, as wellas supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Recognise boundaries ofown practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred
• Demonstrate initiativeand be creative in finding solutions to problems
• Provide supervision tostudent Nurse Associates
• Support in the deliveryof enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN
• Support in themanagement of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in theidentification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents andnear-miss events
• Undertake all mandatorytraining and induction programmes
• Theremay be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will bedependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nursing associate and on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
• Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified in the Nursing Midwifery Standards of proficiency by having undertaken and completed the two-year Foundation Degree delivered by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved provider

Experience

• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in the context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation and how the role may contribute to service development
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of quality initiatives, i.e., benchmarking

Other Requirements

• Occupational Health clearance
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for revalidation
• Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis

Personal Qualities

• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
• Ability to follow legal, ethical and professional policies/ procedures and codes of conduct
• Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centred support in a non-judgemental way
• Understand the requirement for PSDs and associated policy
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Knowledge of IT systems including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to clinical colleagues
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and care providers
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
• Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and wellbeing (Making Every Contact Count)
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Good clinical system IT knowledge
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and healthcare support workers as required within the 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.