Practice Nurse - William Brown Centre

NHS; Peterlee; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS provider in Peterlee is seeking a dedicated Practice Nurse to deliver essential nursing services and support health promotion among patients. The ideal candidate will possess a Registered General Nurse qualification, excellent clinical skills, and relevant experience in primary care, particularly chronic disease management. This role is a key opportunity to contribute to patient well-being within a supportive healthcare team.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years experience in primary care.
• Qualification in chronic disease management.
• Experience in treatment room duties required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver basic nursing services to the practice population.
• Manage treatment plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Support health promotion and self-care strategies.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Health Education

Education

Registered General Nurse

NMC Registration

Tools

Clinical Systems

Vaccination and Immunisation Skills

Job description

The post holder is responsible for thedelivery of basic practice nursing services care to the practice population.Supported by senior nurses within the practice, they will deliver care withinthe boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patients to be healthy,monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities.They will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needsof patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providingnurse leadership as required.

The successfulcandidate will be an exceptional team player with good communication andinterpersonal skills who is enthusiastic and committed to join the team. The ideal candidate will have experience ofprimary care, chronic disease management, diabetes, first contact and telephonetriage.

Candidate mustpossess a practice nurse qualification with at least two years’ experience.Long term conditions experience is desirable.

The successful applicant for this post will bejoining us at a particularly exciting time as we develop and expand our service.

Main duties of the job

• Promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
• Identify, and manage as appropriate, 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
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage self-care
• Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
• Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad

About us

IntraHealth is one of the UK’s leading provider of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.

We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well-established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.

We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and highly motivated Practice Nurse to provide a high quality service to our patients within our William Brown Centre.

Our aim is to provide an excellent standard of primary care whilst supporting personal and professional development.

Job responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for thedelivery of basic practice nursing services care to the practice population.Supported by senior nurses within the practice, they will deliver care withinthe boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patients to behealthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screeningactivities. They will work collaboratively with the general practice team tomeet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures,and providing nurse leadership as required.

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Promotehealth and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health andwell-being
• Implementand evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-termcondition
• Identify,and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk ofdeveloping a long-term condition
• Prioritisehealth problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient incomplex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation ofeffective emergency care
• Work withpatients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Supportpatients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients tolive healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Deliveropportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patientmedicals
• Supportpatients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients tolive healthily, and encourage principles of self-care
• Assessand care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
• Supportand manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
• Implementand participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for bothadults and children
• Advise,support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patientstravelling abroad

Communication

• Utiliseand demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients arefully informed and consent to treatment
• Communicateeffectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternativemethods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding,cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Utilise communicationskills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
• Anticipate barriers to communicationand take action to improve communication
• Act as an advocate whenrepresenting the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others

Delivering a quality service

• Recognise and work withinown competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by theNursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Produce accurate,contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistentwith legislation, policies and procedures
• Prioritise, organise andmanage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• Deliver care according tothe NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelinesand evidence-based care
• Participate in the maintenanceof quality governance systems and processes across the organisation andits activities
• In partnership with otherclinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care,responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
• Support and participate inshared learning across the practice and wider organisation
• Participate in theperformance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback asappropriate
• Work within policiesrelating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse andaddictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate safeguarding children

Learning and Development

• Act as mentor to students,assessing competence against set standards as requested and ifappropriately qualified
• Disseminate learning andinformation gained to other team members in order to share good practiceand inform others about current and future developments
• Assess own learning needsand undertake learning as appropriate
• Make effective use oflearning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluatingtheir effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
• Provide an educationalrole to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment thatfacilitates learning

Team Working

• Understand own role and scopein the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective andresponsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanismsto develop new ways of working
• Delegate clearly andappropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessmentof competence of those taking on delegated duties
• Ensure clear understandingand utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice
• Accept delegation fromother nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-managementstrategies are embedded in own practice
• Work effectively withothers to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting uponcare delivery Participate in team activities that create opportunitiesto improve patient care

Management of risk

• Manage and assess riskwithin the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are inplace to protect staff and patients
• Ensure safe storage,rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Whereappropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control
• Undertake mandatory andstatutory training
• Apply infection controlmeasures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
• Apply policies that reduceenvironmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase accessto health care for all
• Participate in the localimplementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture ofgeneral practice

Managing Information

• Use technology as an aidto management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting andcommunicating information
• Review and process datausing accurate Read codes about patients in order to ensure easy andaccurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
• Manage informationsearches using the internet Understand own and other’s responsibility tothe individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act

Equality and Diversity

• Identify patterns ofdiscrimination and take action to overcome this and promote diversityand equality of opportunity
• Enable others to promoteequality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
• Support people who needassistance exercising their rights
• Monitor and evaluateadherence to local chaperoning policies
• Act as a role model in theobservance of equality and diversity good practice
• Accept the rights ofindividuals to choose their care providers, participate in care andrefuses care
• Assist patients frommarginalised groups to access quality care

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent clinical skills.
• Demonstrate appropriate professional and personal boundaries.
• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Respects the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Experience of relevant clinical systems.
• Skills including : Venepuncture, ECG, wound care , adult /children vaccination and immunisation. Health Education, cervical cytology, ear irrigation, spirometry and NHS health checks.
• Qualification / Experience in running chronic disease management clinics.
• Cryotherapy.

Experience

• At least 1 years experience of working in general practice.
• Experience of treatment room duties required for the post.
• Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
• Experience of quality initiatives such as QOF and KPIs
• Chronic Disease Management experience in 1 or more chronic disease.
• Knowledge of local health issues.
• Awareness of local and national health policy

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse
• Current NMC registration and revalidation with NMC
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Work without direct supervision.
• Qualifications/ experience in Cervical cytology.
• Childhood immunisation and travel vaccination.

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.