Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

REPORTS TO: LEAD NURSE

ACCOUNTABLE TO: PRACTICE MANAGER

Job Summary:

To provide Primary care nursing services to patients on our practice list, including the assessment, and advice within the professional competence of the post holder, screening and treatment. Extra training will be provided for any new duties undertaken. The post holder will work in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct and in accordance with practice and local guidelines and protocols.

Working in accordance with specific Practice guidelines and protocols, the Practice Nurse will assist the Practice medical team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care.

Key Responsibilities

To undertake general nursing duties within the nursing team, including:

Cervical smears

Contraception advice and pill checks

Treatment room,( which includes Complex dressings & wound care, post op dressings and suture/clip removal, ring pessary insertion & changes, Injections, non-primary care requested ECGs) minor injury. and any other areas that form part of the LCS.

Supporting SMI reviews.

Chronic disease management-LTC- Qof. Which will include Respiratory ( Asthma/COPD),Diabetes, Hypertension.

To work to practice protocols and guidelines

Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring, re-stocking, stock rotation and recording for ordering

Health promotion and/or education

Undertaking specific clinical activities for patients that have been delegated by the GPs

Assisting GPs with procedures when required

Undertaking Clinical Audit

Ensuring that all Infection Control procedures and precautions taken are compliant with the latest guidance.

Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver an effective service to prevent hospital admissions

Routine management of own areas and maintenance of workplace standards.

Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of health promotion and manage their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.

Confidentiality

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Mandatory training ( to be maintained by the post holder)

Other courses relevant to the role.

Communication:

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

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC PIN
• A minimum experience of 2 years working in General Practice.
• Trained to undertake long term condition and QOF reviews, Cervical screening, and immunisations.

Desirable

• Knowledge of SystemOne
• Spirometry trained.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Andaman Surgery

Address

303 Long Road

Lowestoft

Suffolk

NR33 9DF

Employer's website

https://www.andamansurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)