Job summary
We are passionate about good
quality, evidenced based, patient centred care and as such are keen to find the
right person who will thrive in our team.
We therefore welcome applications from those with experience of working
in primary care and those who would like to develop their skills in this
sector. The role could be part or full
time to suit candidate needs. We are
happy to invest in skill development.
Main duties of the job
To
purpose of the Nurse Associate is to work strictly in accordance with specific
practice guidelines and protocols. The Nurse Associate will assist the Practice
Clinical Team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient
care.
Aspects
of work include:
Delivering
evidenced based, person-centred care to patients
Providing
general and specific health screening to the practice patients (within agreed
protocols) with referral to other clinical colleagues as necessary
Undertaking primary care nursing functions, such as
Cervical screening
Health promotion activities
Long term disease management (asthma, COPD, diabetes)
Wound care and compression, including assessment and care planning
Medicines Administration (B12, Flu, Shingles, Pneumonia, Depo
injections)
About us
Shipston Medical Centre provides primary health care services for the
population of Shipston on Stour and the surrounding villages. We have around 11,700 patients and continue
to grow as the population in the area grows.
We are a patient focused and caring organisation which values education
and development, and as such we have a long history of hosting learners and
supporting colleagues in their professional development. Our focus on high quality evidence based care
with compassion has enabled us to achieve and maintain our 'Outstanding' rating
from the CQC.
The Medical Centre team are friendly, helpful and passionate about the care
we provide. Looking after each other is as important as looking after our
patients, and a key element of how we operate.
It is a requirement that employees at the Medical Centre have a complete
course of vaccination against COVID-19
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To deliver evidenced based, person-centred care to patients
- To provide general and specific health screening to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other clinical colleagues as necessary
- To undertake primary care nursing functions, such as cervical screening; health promotion activities, long term disease management (asthma, COPD, diabetes), wound care and compression, including assessment and care planning, medicines administration (B12, Flu, Shingles, Pneumonia, Depo injections)
- Recognise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults and report any problems or raise concerns to the appropriate registered care
- Demonstrate good understanding of principles of consent and ensure valid consent is obtained prior to undertaking nursing and care procedures
OTHER DUTIES
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations.
- To use Arden’s templates where appropriate and ensure all consultations are recorded at the time of event with accuracy and due diligence.
- To act with professionalism and ensuring that ethical conduct is adhered to at all times
- To keep the working area clean, tidy and professional, adhering to infection control guidance and GDPR regulations
- To save and discard patients appropriately (not to leave patients records open when unattended) and record patient consent
- To assist with training for new staff
- To assist with the gathering of statistics and information when required and participate and co-operate with any research projects
- To provide cover for members of the team during periods of sickness and annual leave
- It will be necessary to attend and contribute to various practice meetings as requested.
- The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to changes as deemed necessary
- To ensure all specimens (cytology, blood, urine etc.) are taken in accordance to protocols, recorded into patients records and labelled ready for collection
ADMINISTRATION
- Contributes and participates in audits, evaluation and clinical standard setting within the Practice and/or PCN.
- Accurate and timely summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes in accordance with relevant standards
- Ensure that all practice policies are fully implemented
Work in accordance with all governance and internal systems relating to (but not limited to) the management of clinical data and systems
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Taking responsibility for own development with relevant evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and a Personal Development Plan (PDP).
- Stay up to date through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
- Subject to a performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Work closely with other clinical staff and administrative managers in the setting up and/or improving of practice systems for monitoring/measuring performance against Clinical Governance and Quality Indicator targets
- Work to deliver the NHS contract requirements related to the practice (including the terms of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and locally enhanced services)
GOVERNANCE
- Produce complete and accurate records of patient consultation, in line with best practice, confidentiality, policies and procedures
- Deliver care according to NHS guidance, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
- Take part in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the Practice and its activities.
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
- Work with others on improving the quality of healthcare in response to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events
- Awareness of statutory safeguarding, notification processes and local guidance for children/vulnerable patients, applying relevant policies and legislation to protect them
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by taking action or alerting senior management team if the practice appears to contravene policy, or if there are concerns over any aspect of patient care.
CONFIDENTIALITY
- In the course of 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.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other Healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Not to enter patients records without clinical or administrative need to do so.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role
- Reporting potential risks identified
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To deliver evidenced based, person-centred care to patients
- To provide general and specific health screening to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other clinical colleagues as necessary
- To undertake primary care nursing functions, such as cervical screening; health promotion activities, long term disease management (asthma, COPD, diabetes), wound care and compression, including assessment and care planning, medicines administration (B12, Flu, Shingles, Pneumonia, Depo injections)
- Recognise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults and report any problems or raise concerns to the appropriate registered care
- Demonstrate good understanding of principles of consent and ensure valid consent is obtained prior to undertaking nursing and care procedures
OTHER DUTIES
- Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations.
- To use Arden’s templates where appropriate and ensure all consultations are recorded at the time of event with accuracy and due diligence.
- To act with professionalism and ensuring that ethical conduct is adhered to at all times
- To keep the working area clean, tidy and professional, adhering to infection control guidance and GDPR regulations
- To save and discard patients appropriately (not to leave patients records open when unattended) and record patient consent
- To assist with training for new staff
- To assist with the gathering of statistics and information when required and participate and co-operate with any research projects
- To provide cover for members of the team during periods of sickness and annual leave
- It will be necessary to attend and contribute to various practice meetings as requested.
- The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to changes as deemed necessary
- To ensure all specimens (cytology, blood, urine etc.) are taken in accordance to protocols, recorded into patients records and labelled ready for collection
ADMINISTRATION
- Contributes and participates in audits, evaluation and clinical standard setting within the Practice and/or PCN.
- Accurate and timely summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes in accordance with relevant standards
- Ensure that all practice policies are fully implemented
Work in accordance with all governance and internal systems relating to (but not limited to) the management of clinical data and systems
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Taking responsibility for own development with relevant evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and a Personal Development Plan (PDP).
- Stay up to date through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
- Subject to a performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Work closely with other clinical staff and administrative managers in the setting up and/or improving of practice systems for monitoring/measuring performance against Clinical Governance and Quality Indicator targets
- Work to deliver the NHS contract requirements related to the practice (including the terms of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and locally enhanced services)
GOVERNANCE
- Produce complete and accurate records of patient consultation, in line with best practice, confidentiality, policies and procedures
- Deliver care according to NHS guidance, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
- Take part in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the Practice and its activities.
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.
- Work with others on improving the quality of healthcare in response to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events
- Awareness of statutory safeguarding, notification processes and local guidance for children/vulnerable patients, applying relevant policies and legislation to protect them
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by taking action or alerting senior management team if the practice appears to contravene policy, or if there are concerns over any aspect of patient care.
CONFIDENTIALITY
- In the course of 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.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other Healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Not to enter patients records without clinical or administrative need to do so.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role
- Reporting potential risks identified
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse Associate with NMC registration
Desirable
- Full (UK) Clean Driving Licence
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or Skills Level 2 Maths & English (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own work
- Ability to communicate and listen effectively to all internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Flexible Approach
- Ability to demonstrate compassion and care when dealing with people
Desirable
- Experience working in General Practice or healthcare setting
- Experience of undertaking dressings (including complex, leg ulcer and dopplers)
- Experience of delivering smoking cessation therapy
- Experience of medicines administration (Flu, Shingles, B12, Depo, Pneumonia, Fluenz etc.)
- Supervision of day to day patient management, decision making, co-ordinating, facilitating monitoring and evaluating skills
- Ability to Positively Motivate Others in a Team Setting
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Applications: Word, Outlook, Excel
- Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the English language to communicate effectively with staff and patients
- Knowledge of EMIS clinical computer system
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse Associate with NMC registration
Desirable
- Full (UK) Clean Driving Licence
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or Skills Level 2 Maths & English (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own work
- Ability to communicate and listen effectively to all internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Flexible Approach
- Ability to demonstrate compassion and care when dealing with people
Desirable
- Experience working in General Practice or healthcare setting
- Experience of undertaking dressings (including complex, leg ulcer and dopplers)
- Experience of delivering smoking cessation therapy
- Experience of medicines administration (Flu, Shingles, B12, Depo, Pneumonia, Fluenz etc.)
- Supervision of day to day patient management, decision making, co-ordinating, facilitating monitoring and evaluating skills
- Ability to Positively Motivate Others in a Team Setting
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Applications: Word, Outlook, Excel
- Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the English language to communicate effectively with staff and patients
- Knowledge of EMIS clinical computer system
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
