Practice Nurse

Battersea Fields Practice; North Kesteven; Vor Ort; GBP 36.000 - 42.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Battersea Fields Practice is seeking an autonomous Practice Nurse to deliver general nursing services across our patient population. You will work with the Nurse Manager, GP Partners and the wider team to provide evidence-based care and preventative health services.

Key duties include immunisations, patient education, care planning for long-term conditions, and supporting local health initiatives within the practice.

Qualifikationen

• NMC registration is essential for this role.
• Minimum of 1 year nursing experience is preferred.

Aufgaben

• Provide nursing services to the practice population.
• Administer routine immunisations and contribute to immunisation programmes.
• Maintain accurate patient records and contribute to quality governance.
• Support health promotion and patient education activities.
• Participate in team meetings and local care projects.

Kenntnisse

NMC Registered

Nursing experience

Ausbildung

NMC required

Jobbeschreibung

Job Summary

The Nursing team works closely with, and under direction of the Nurse Manager, GP Partners and Practice Manger. As part of the nursing team the post holder is responsible for the delivery of general practice nursing to the whole practice population. The focus of the role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with acute and long-term conditions, and the provision of preventative health care to the practice population. As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible for the care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making in the management of patients. They will work collaboratively within the general practice team to meet the needs of patients and support the delivery of good quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

About us

• To work at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
• To maintain and be responsible for personal professional registration, including revalidation requirements
• To support other members of the practice team in ensuring that all legal and contractual requirements are met, including but not limited to CQC, QOF and other service agreements
• To undertake any other ad hoc duties for the Practice Manager/Practice Nurse Manager
• To work at both sites (3 Austin Road and 33 Sleaford street)

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Clinical practice

• To work as a member of the nursing team in providing nursing services to the practice population
• To use knowledge and skills, underpinned by evidence-based practice, to facilitate access to skilled nursing care within the practice
• To participate in national immunisation and screening programmes
• To safely and effectively administer routine immunisations, offering appropriate information, advice and follow as required
• Promote and deliver safe evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition (with appropriate training and support where needed)
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols
• Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NHS Long Term Plan and Quality Outcome Framework for Mental Health
• Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad
• Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic and planned wound care

Communication

• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
• Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
• Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
• Participate in practice team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda.
• Produce written documents that evidence the contribution of the nursing team to the practice priorities.
• Take minutes of the nursing team meetings and disseminate information to staff.

Delivering a quality service

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
• Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
• Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
• Participate in the review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (ie: significant-event reporting, Make a Difference reporting and Safer Systems Reporting)
• Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
• Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate

Leadership personal and people development

• Take responsibility for own development learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model
• Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
• Participate in planning and implementing changes within specified areas of care and responsibility
• Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards

Team working

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

Management of risk

• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
• Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
• Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
• Support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
• Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
• Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all
• Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

Utilising information

• Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
• Review and process data using accurate SNOMED codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
• Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
• Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
• Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care

Learning and development

• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
• Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning

Equality and diversity

• Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
• Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
• Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
• Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good practice
• Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care

Other

• To work at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
• To maintain and be responsible for personal professional registration, including revalidation requirements
• To support other members of the practice team in ensuring that all legal and contractual requirements are met, including but not limited to CQC, QOF and other service agreements
• To undertake any other ad hoc duties for the Practice Manager/Practice Nurse Manager
• To work at both sites (3 Austin Road and 33 Sleaford street)

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
• Review and process data using accurate SNOMED codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
• Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
• Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
• Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care

Desirable

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC required

Desirable

• Licence/Certification:
• NMC (required)

Experience

Essential

• 1 Year Nursing experience

Desirable

• 1 Year Nursing experience

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