Practice Nurse

NHS; Stockton-on-Tees; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Practice Nurse to join their team in Stockton-on-Tees. The role focuses on chronic disease management, including diabetes and asthma care, and involves providing general nursing services, vaccinations, and health promotion. Candidates must be registered nurses with relevant qualifications and experience in primary care.

Qualifications

• Experience with chronic disease management.
• Experience working autonomously.
• Experience working in Primary Care/General Practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma.
• Provide vaccinations and immunizations.
• Conduct triage assessments and manage treatment plans.

Skills

Chronic Disease Management

Infection Control

Triage Assessment

Health Promotion

Education

Registered Nurse (Nursing & Midwifery Council)

Diplomas in Chronic Disease Management

Tools

SystemOne

Job description

WoodlandsFamily Medical Centre, Stockton-On-Tees, has a vacancy for an experiencedPractice Nurse with Chronic Disease management particularly Diabetes and Asthmato join our busy and friendly Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

Your Practice Nursing dutieswill include but not exhaustive

Chronic disease management

Cytology

Management of Infection Control

Vaccination and Immunisations

Childhood immunisations

Wound Care management

Family Planning

Work within all NICE guidelinesand practice policies

About us

We are a well-establishedPractice based in Stockton-on-Tees. Woodlands Family Medical Centre is situatedin the south of Stockton and forms part of the Stockton Primary Care Network,with a population list size of over 12300, our patients give us excellentfeedback.

The clinical team currentlycomprises of 5 GP Partners, 2 salaried GPs, 5 Practice nurses, 2 Health CareAssistants, 1 Nurse Practitioner.

Woodlands Family Medical Centre are an established GPtraining practice

Job responsibilities

Workingunder the supervision of the Lead Nurse, the Practice Nurse will work as part of the Nursing & Healthcareteam providing General Medical Services to the patients of Woodlands FamilyMedical Centre. Responsibilities are to:

Assess, plan, develop, implementand evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverseeffects on health and well-being

Implement and evaluateindividual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.

Identify, and manage asappropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-termcondition

Advising patients with respectto their continuing nursing and medical needs

Triage (face to face andtelephone) assessment and treat patients wishing to see health careprofessional making and necessary referrals to other members of the primaryhealth care team.

Ensure clinical practice is safeand effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledgelimitations to the team so that referrals can be appropriate.

Ensure all contacts withpatients are recorded as accurately as possible

Prioritise health problems andintervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergencysituations, including initiation of effective emergency care.

Deliver opportunistic healthpromotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals.

Provide information and adviceon prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, sideeffects and interactions.

Support patients to adopt healthpromotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily and encourageprinciples of self-care.

Assess and care for patientspresenting with uncomplicated wounds.

Perform routine procedures likeear syringing, treating wounds and applying or removing dressings.

Taking urine and blood samples,other swabs and specimens.

Support and advise womenrequesting information relating to family planning needs.

Support and manage health needsof women presenting for cervical cytology consultations.

Recognise, assess and referpatients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NationalFramework (NSF) for Mental Health.

Implement and participate invaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.

Undertake community visits forhouse bound patients as identified individually and within own scope ofpractice.

Actively identifying, reporting,and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediatelywhen recognised.

Advise, support and, whereappropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad.

Keeping own work areas andgeneral / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues andhazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, andassuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanlinessacross the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sectormanagers.

Undertaking periodic infectioncontrol training.

Routine management of own team /team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards

Spillage control procedures,management and training.

Decontamination controlprocedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance.

Meetings

It will be necessary to attendand contribute to various Practice meetings.

Training and personaldevelopment

Training requirements will bemonitored by appraisal initially after 6 months and then yearly and will be inaccordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouragedand supported by the practice, where appropriate. It is the individualsresponsibility to remain up-to-date with recent developments.

Maintain continued education byattendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary forprofessional development ensuring requirements are met.

Develop and maintain a PersonalLearning Plan

If it is necessary to expand therole to include additional responsibilities, appropriate training will begiven.

As well as the nursing teamthere is a need to work closely with reception, office and clinical staff toensure smooth running of the practice, reporting any problems encountered tothe relevant person and ensuring everyone is aware of the different roleswithin the nursing team.

There is also the need toestablish and maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies includingsecondary care.

Confidentiality

In the course of seekingtreatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They do so inconfidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacyand act appropriately.

In the performance of the dutiesoutlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staffand other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relatingto the practice as a business organisation. All such information from anysource is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating topatients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of thepractice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with thepractice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protectionof personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post holder will assist inpromoting and maintaining their own and others health, safe and security asdefined in the Practice Health and safety policy, to include:

Using personal security systemswithin the workplace according to practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involvedin work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages thoserisks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of trainingto update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of othersacross the full range of infection control and patient processes

Using appropriate infectioncontrol procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile andsafe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action whereneeded or escalation to responsible management

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support theequality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognisesthe importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistentwith practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity,needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which iswelcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects theircircumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Person/Professional Development

In addition to maintainingcontinued education through attendance at any courses and/or study daysnecessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP aremet, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by thepractice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

Participation in an annualindividual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaininga record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for owndevelopment, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activitiesto others who are undertaking similar work.

Person Specification

Additional criteria

• Knowledge of QOF
• Experience of Infection, Prevention and Control
• Knowledge of SystemOne
• Knowledge of waste management

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Nursing & Midwifery Council)
• Diplomas in Chronic Disease Management

Experience

• Experience with Chronic disease management.
• Experience working autonomously.
• Experience working in Primary Care/General Practice

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.