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NHS Jobs; Broxbourne; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a General Practice Nurse to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care in a primary care setting. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to promote health, manage long-term conditions, and support self-care for patients.

The role involves vaccinations, family planning support, and adherence counselling in line with national guidelines and local policies. A registered nurse with NHS experience is preferred and the post is on-site in a GP practice.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration and practising certificate.
• Experience in primary care or general practice settings preferred.
• Knowledge of NHS policies, guidelines and vaccination programmes.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate patient treatment plans.
• Promote health and well-being and support chronic disease management.
• Provide information on medications and safety with adherence support.
• Work with the team to meet QoF targets and infection control standards.
• Lead on patient education, vaccinations, and family planning guidance.

Skills

Nursing

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical assessment

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Tools

Electronic health records

Job description

Clinical practice

Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.

Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.

Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including using non-drug-based treatment methods, in line with national and local policies and practice needs.

Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols.

Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments.

Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions.

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

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote them to live healthily and apply principles of self-care.

Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.

Assess, identify, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF for mental health as required.

Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.

Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad.

Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions.

Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic and planned wound care, including compression bandaging.

Working with the partners to meet QoF, ECF and IIF frameworks targets.

Support the Practice with matters relating to infection control.

Support the practice with any additional local or national service provision i.e., Smoking cessation, NHS Health checks, Covid vaccination

Support the practice with any other tasks as deemed necessary.

Communication

Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.

Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.

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 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.

Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.

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 and others workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.

Deliver care as an individual and team according to NSF, NICE guidelines, and evidence-based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery for the nursing team through peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.

Lead on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team.

Implement and review the application of evidence-based practice in nursing.

Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.

Lead the quality agenda in responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.

Lead and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.

Lead in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis).

Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.

Assist in monitoring the performance of the GPN team in accordance with local policies.

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.

Interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

Person 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 staff potential.

Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.

Assist others to make realistic self-assessment of their knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency and actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of service.

Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of GPN services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.

Team working

Ensure clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient need.

Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.

Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.

Participate in the nursing team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.

Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team Work collaboratively with the nursing team to review and action tasks sent to the practice nursing task group.

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 the safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.

Oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements.

Act as a role model to 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 and appropriate software packages as an aid to the planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.

Review and process data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act Learning and development Act as mentor for more junior staff and students, assessing competence against set standards.

Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (eg courses and conferences).

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 and take action to overcome this and promote diversity and equality of opportunity.

Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture.

Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights.

Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies.

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.