Practice Nurse

Job summary

As the team leader for the general practice nursing team, the post holder is accountable for the delivery of Treatment Room Services, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population.

They will lead and manage all the Treatment Room resources, working closely with the GPs and Senior Management Team (SMT) to deliver the practice priorities.

Clinically, the focus of the role is the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients with acute and chronic conditions and management and preventative nursing interventions to all patients.

You will work collaboratively with the whole general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery and procedures and providing leadership and direction for the nursing team.

Main duties of the job

• To help develop the nursing services offered by the practice.

  To provide clinical leadership within the nursing team

  To be responsible for the line management of the treatment room team

  To manage the care of patients with long term health conditions. This may include organisational responsibility for specific disease areas.

  To ensure the effective management of wounds, ensuring ongoing learning and development for the nursing team to improve rates of healing and patient outcomes.

  To work with the nursing admin staff to construct and maintain robust call and recall systems for chronic disease, immunisations, and disease prevention care programmes.

  To provide leadership and support in the relevant practice services e.g. LES, DES and other incentive schemes

  Ensure treatment room compliance and effectiveness (including stock control, ordering and vaccine/cold chain management)

  Subject matter expert for infection control prevention (and responsible for audits and submissions)

  Responsible for the treatment room staff rota and treatment room appointment and clinic templates -working with the operational lead on this.

  Provide pastoral support for staff when required, particularly in relation to issues that affect their ability to work.

• To set up robust nursing protocols where appropriate e.g., childhood immunisations to increase uptake rates.

About us

We are a high achieving QOF practice looking after 20,000 patients across 2 sites. The practices main site is a large purpose built premises that has recently undergone extensive refurbishment.

We have 5 partners and 4 salaried GPs as well as a fantastic team of allied health professionals which include a Pharmacist, Paramedics and Nurse Practitioners and a strong established/ experienced treatment room team.

We have an innovative hybrid appointment system looking separate same day and routine care providing high level of efficiency and satisfaction for GPs as well as continuity of care for patients.

We are a dynamic forward thinking fun practice who are at the centre of primary care development in South Reading. We are a leading practice in the local Alliance and the lead practice for the PCN.

We have a Friendly Efficient Admin support team that work toward helping reducing the administrative burden for our clinical team.