Practice Nurse

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced General Practice Nurse to join a dedicated team in a supportive environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to deliver high-quality patient care while promoting health and well-being. You will work collaboratively with a clinical team to enhance patient outcomes and support the professional development of junior staff. With a focus on continuous improvement and innovation, this position is ideal for someone looking to make a meaningful impact in primary care while enjoying a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC with relevant qualifications for general practice nursing.
• Experience in managing chronic diseases and wound care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality nursing care and monitor patient health.
• Support training for junior staff and manage complex care plans.

Skills

General Practice Nursing

Chronic Disease Management

Wound Management

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration

First Degree in Nursing

Tools

EMIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Much Birch Surgery has an exciting opening for an experienced General Practice Nurse to join our team of 3 GPNs and 2 HCAs. We strive for excellent clinical and professional support, a healthy work-life balance and a challenging but rewarding career, whatever your area of interest.

We pride ourselves on excellent patient care, fantastic teamwork and a willingness to look at new ways of working. We also offer career progression opportunities to help you grow and advance, which helps reflect both the practice needs and your continued professional development.

The successful candidate will meet the following :-

• Meet the specific qualification and training requirements as specified in the Nursing Midwifery Standards of proficiency by undertaking the relevant qualification delivered by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - approved provider.
• is registered with the NMC and revalidation is undertaken in line with NMC requirements.

Job summary

Much Birch Surgery has an exciting opening for an experienced General Practice Nurse to join our team of 3 GPNs and 2 HCAs. We strive for excellent clinical and professional support, a healthy work-life balance and a challenging but rewarding career, whatever your area of interest.

We pride ourselves on excellent patient care, fantastic teamwork and a willingness to look at new ways of working. We also offer career progression opportunities to help you grow and advance, which helps reflect both the practice needs and your continued professional development.

The successful candidate will meet the following :-

• Meet the specific qualification and training requirements as specified in the Nursing Midwifery Standards of proficiency by undertaking the relevant qualification delivered by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - approved provider.
• is registered with the NMC and revalidation is undertaken in line with NMC requirements.

*This role is for13 hours per week*

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services:-

• work as part of the practice clinical team to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
• improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity
• contribute to the delivery of integrated care
• provide support and supervision to Training Nursing Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Apprentices, and those on learning assignments/placements as required
• perform and record clinical observations such as required

• provide wound care, flu vaccinations, ECGs, and venepuncture, hypertension reviews, long term conditions childhood immunisations and other relevant clinical care as required, in line with the competencies of the role.
• promote health and well-being to all patients.
• care for individuals with complex conditions such as dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities
• advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services
• maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records
• enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service

About us

We are a rapidly growing GP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care within a sustainable primary care system.

We acknowledge that our primary care system is under pressure, but we believe that we can turn this around by reimagining how primary care is delivered from the ground up by placing a focus on data insights, technology and clinical innovation. Ultimately, we want to improve patient access, patient experience and health outcomes to significantly increase the quality of care for our patients.

The Much Birch GMS contract was novated to the Federation in February 2024, but the practice team remains unchanged as does the identity of the surgery in the local community.

Much Birch is :-

• A busy rural dispensing practice at the heart of the community.
• Located in the village of Much Birch, between Ross-on-Wye and Hereford city.
• Covering an area reaching from the edges of Hereford to Ross on Wye, and extending into the villages of the Golden Valley.
• List size of circa 5,000+ patients.

A supportive clinical team of GPs, ANPs, Paramedics, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Physiotherapist, Social Prescribers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Thepostholder will utilise general practice nursing skills to deliver primarymedical services to Much Birch population. They will provide highquality general practice nursing care as an autonomous practitioner, supportothers in the clinical area and work within their scope of practice.

Thepostholder will demonstrate an enhanced range of skills and experienceas outlined in the Reporttemplate Capability Framework -Skills for Health 2021- and as aPractice Nurse (Enhanced Nurse Level) will deliver the fundamental capabilitiesof General Practice Nursing.

Role Core Competencies

Willrequire a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practicalknowledge, which can be generalist with a special interest and/or havemanagement and leadership responsibilities.

Havespecialist knowledge, skills, and capabilities.

Consultwith patients, their family, and the multi-professional team to undertakeassessments of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans.

Evaluateand analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out andapplying relevant evidence, enhanced techniques, interventions, and equipmentto make clinical decisions.

Deliverenhanced clinical care in the context of continual change, challengingenvironments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidlyevolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge to managecomplex interventions.

Teach andadvise patients and their families on how to manage their condition or supportthe multi-disciplinary team to do so.

Participatein clinical audits and research projects, and implement changes as required,including the development, and updating of practice protocols / guidelines andprocedures locally.

Workwithin national and local protocols where these exist.

Recogniseboundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should bereferred.

Delegatework to other members of the multidisciplinary team and take accountability forthe delegated activity.

Demonstrateinitiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.

Responsibilityfor team performance and service development and consistently undertakeself-development.

The role will also include core expected patientactivities and to oversee and educate staff to deliver and monitor the qualityof nursing delivered. This will include, but is not limited to:

Simple and complex wound management, doppler and compression

Provision, ordering and safe storage of vaccines for all ages inline with national guidance and an up to date knowledge of PGDs.

Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl asprescribed

Undertakingcervical cytology screening

Contraceptioncare and sexual health assessment and signposting

Regularchecks for people with long term conditions this may include diabetes, CHD,heart failure, stroke / TIA, PAD, hypertension, CKD, respiratory care andlearning disabilities.

Supervisionof junior clinical staff and students

Toact as a link worker for an identified population of patients for example thosewith an identified learning disability.

* A full Job Description & Person Specification is attcahed to this advert*

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Effective team player.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Competent use of EMIS, Microsoft office and other IT programmes.
• Able to organise and plan own workload effectively.

Qualifications

Essential

• Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.
• First degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 12 months experience - Registered Level.
• GPN fundamentals qualification or demonstrable equivalent training or experience -includes basics chronic disease review.
• Able to demonstrate appropriate academic modules, learning units and Continuing Professional Development that enable the delivery of general practice nursing at an enhanced level that are aligned to scope of practice, example long term condition management.
• Contraception and sexual health qualification/training.
• Cervical cytology practitioner (with evidence of 3 yearly updates)
• NMC supervisor/assessor (expected for all registered nurses)
• Lower limb tier 2 trained and competent

Desirable

• Independent / Supplementary Nurse Prescribing -V300.
• Immunisations training with annual updates to include COVID and Flu for Adults and Childrens, and Travel Vaccines - Including risk assessment competency for all ages.
• Lower limb tier 2 trained and competent.

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• Organised, friendly, approachable, polite and empathetic.
• Adaptable and comfortable dealing with changing priorities and be a team player.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in primary care as general practice nurse at registered/enhanced level.
• Experience, knowledge and ability to independently deliver nurse led chronic disease management clinics which may include: Asthma,COPD
• Diabetes, Stroke - TIA,PAD, Hypertension, CKD, Learning disabilities, COPD.
• Experience of working in a multi-professional environment.
• Experience, knowledge and ability to independently deliver safe and effective wound management, this will include competency in:
• Undertake Dopplers, Compression, Hosiery.
• Phlebotomy experience.
• Immunisation experience.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Taurus Healthcare Limited

Address

Much Birch Surgery

Much Birch

Hereford

Herefordshire

HR2 8HT

Employer's website

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Depending on experienceNegotiable - Subject to experience