Practice Nurse

SSP Health; Wigan; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Wigan is looking for a qualified Practice Nurse to deliver health assessments, manage chronic diseases, and conduct health screenings. The ideal candidate will ensure patient confidentiality while complying with health and safety regulations. Applicants must have current UK professional registration and a valid Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Qualifications

• Requires a qualified practice nurse.
• Must have UK professional registration.
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage chronic diseases and develop management plans.
• Conduct health screenings and immunisations.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies.

Skills

Management of Chronic Disease

Health Screening

Immunisation

Effective Communication

Confidentiality

Health & Safety

Education

Qualified Practice Nurse

UK Registration

Job description

Workingin accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provideassessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice topatients.

Thepost-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols andguidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participationwith nurse colleagues and general practitioners.

Thepost-holder will have the required level of training and competence and willwork within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications willuse them appropriately.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role include

• Management of Chronic Disease
• Health Screening
• Travel Health
• Immunisation (adult & children)
• First contact
• Confidentiality
• Health & Safety
• Equality & Diversity
• Personal / professional Development
• Quality
• Communication
• Contribution to the Implementation of Services

About us

Golborne Surgery and Morden Avenue Surgery are part of SSP Health.Our practices benefit from a centralised resource of shared skills, expertise, and support. As a group, we're stronger and more capable of supporting patients at local practices. We are a small practice with a well established long serving team.

Job responsibilities

Management of chronic disease

• Identifyingsignificant abnormalities.
• Diagnosis,monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these asappropriate with the patient and other health professionals.
• Identifyingsignificant abnormalities.
• Obtainingappropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifyingappropriate health promotion issues.
• Working withpatients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential healthproblems are identified.
• Recognising issuesand gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs;domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients;social problems).

Health screening

• Recognising issuesand gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health,sexual health, older people).
• Undertakingmonitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate.
• Providing in-depthmonitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holdersspecialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel health

• Administeringinjections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines.
• Identifyingproblems.
• Provision ofspecialist and evidence-based support to the team.

Immunisation (adult and child)

• Working withpatients with more complex immunisation issues.

First contact

• Workingindependently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/recommendations as appropriate.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust uswith, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their healthand 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 duties outlined in this jobdescription, the post-holder may have access to confidential informationrelating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcareworkers.They may also have access toinformation relating to the practice as a business organisation. All suchinformation from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, otherhealthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged toauthorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and proceduresrelating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range ofpromotion and management of their own and others health and safety andinfection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, thepractice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policyand published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplaceaccording to practice guidelines.
• Awareness of national standards of infection control andcleanliness; regulatory / contractual / professional requirements; and good practiceguidelines.
• Responsible for the correct and safe management of thespecimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correctand clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment(PPE) for the practice, including provision, ordering, availability and ongoingcorrect usage by staff.
• Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice.
• Ownership of infection control and clinically based patientcare protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice.
• Active observation of current working practices across thepractice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs areidentified, escalating issues as appropriate
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities andundertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinicaland patient process.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge andskills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range ofinfection control and patient processes.
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation toinfection control, ensuring that provision of hand-cleansing facilities, wipesetc. are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack offacilities to be escalated as appropriate.
• Safe management of sharps procedures including training,use, storage and disposal.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintainingwork areas in a tidy, clean and sterile way, safe and free from hazards.Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation toresponsible management.
• Actively identifying, reporting and correcting health andsafety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areasgenerally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation toother work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in themaintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business inconsultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers.
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimumtwice annually).
• Routine management of own team / team areas, andmaintenance of work space standards.
• Waste management including collection, handling,segregation, container management, storage and collection.
• Spillage control procedures, management and training.
• Decontamination control procedures, management andtraining, and equipment maintenance.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting thewelfare of children.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holderwill support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers andcolleagues, to include:

• Acting in a waythat recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a waythat is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation.
• Respecting theprivacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in amanner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

In addition tomaintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or studydays necessary to ensure that NMC professional development requirements forPREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programmeimplemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training toinclude:

• Participation inan annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility formaintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holderwill strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other teammembers to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess ownperformance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or undersupervision.
• Contribute to theeffectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and makingsuggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectivelywith individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manageown time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognizethe importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods ofcommunication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holderwill:

• Apply practicepolicies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with othermembers of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect ownwork.
• Participate inaudit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Practice Nurse
• 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 see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).