Practice Nurse - Birmingham Division - Smethwick Medical Centre

Practice Nurse - Birmingham Division - Smethwick Medical Centre

Modality Partnership Birmingham Division has a part-time vacancy (30 hours per week) seeking a skilled and compassionate, experienced & qualified General Practice Nurse to join our healthcare team. As a Practice Nurse, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and assisting in various medical procedures working at Smethwick Medical Centre. If you are passionate about helping others and have a strong knowledge of anatomy, we encourage you to apply. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values.

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering high quality patient care and who are committed to making real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.

Salary for this role is £30,171.13 per annum WTE for newly qualified GPNs, £31,715.86-£37,542.82 per annum WTE depending upon PN experience and £42,294.33 per annum WTE upwards for non-prescriber and experienced GPN.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

• Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
• Employee discounts and benefits scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Education and career pathways
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Flexible working
• Wellbeing support and initiatives

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

The role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with a chronic condition and the provision of preventative health care to the practice population. The postholder will be responsible for the care delivered to their patients, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making in the management of patients.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job; it requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment, and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

About us

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique and are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to enhance patient and staff satisfaction. This role will equip you with a portfolio of nursing in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you have a passion for supporting patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy living and apply principles of self-care. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up while working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge, we welcome your application to join our growing team of like-minded people.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters to manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment; one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Knowledge of management of patients with chronic conditions.
• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in primary care.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
• Knowledge of local and national health policy.
• Wider health economy awareness.
• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
• Knowledge of public health issues.
• Ability to identify determinants of health in the local area.
• Knowledge of public health issues in the area.

Skills

• Clinical leadership skills.
• Clinical skills: cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination, ear care, minor surgery.
• Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle.
• Communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year General Practice Experience.
• Minimum 2 years post-registration experience.
• At least 1 year recent community nursing experience.
• Experience of nurse-led management of chronic conditions.
• Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Experience of quality initiatives such as clinical benchmarking.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Personal Qualities

• Professional approach to work.
• Good telephone manner.
• Strong team player.
• Smart appearance.
• Exercises tact and discretion at all times.
• Demonstrates initiative to handle any unforeseen events during a shift.
• Demonstrates flexibility towards new working practices and working hours.

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.

Depending on experience, the rate of pay is dependent on experience.