Job summary
The Practice Nurse will undertake a range of nursing assessments and provide appropriate care and treatment in conjunction with GPs, Nurse Practitioners, and other practice nurses or independently, in line with competence and need. Responsibilities include:
- Maintaining and improving standards of care, identifying patient population needs.
- Applying knowledge related to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
- Delivering therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy.
- Providing education and training on chronic clinical conditions.
- Offering specialist advice to patients and relatives regarding COPD, Asthma, and, where qualified, Diabetes.
- Engaging in further training for role development.
- Practicing within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and maintaining accurate records.
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities
- Meet patients nursing care needs
- Initiate and maintain health screening and promotion clinics.
- Manage chronic disease care.
- Provide nursing advice and support to the practice team.
- Participate and lead on training, including infection control.
- Supporting the practice healthcare assistant.
The practice offers a variety of long term condition clinics and reviews. The nursing team are involved in the "check and test" component of the NCL long term conditions review initiative.
The practice nurse leads on infection control agendas.
Routine Treatment / Clinical Duties:
- Wound management (dressings, suture/clip removal)
- Long term condition reviews
- Learning disabilities health checks
- Physical health checks for patients with severe mental illnesses
- NHS health checks
- Health promotion and lifestyle advice (nutrition, BMI, smoking, exercise)
- Infection control
- Womens' health services including cervical screening and swabs
- Childhood immunisations
- Adult immunisations
- Travel vaccinations
About us
The Keats Group Practice, located in Hampstead, is
seeking an experienced Practice Nurse to lead our busy and friendly practice.
This fixed term contract will be to provide maternity cover for a period of 12 months and requires a commitment of 30 to 37.5
hours per week.
We are searching for someone who is passionate and motivated about General Practice. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional
leadership skills and an ability to guide our team in delivering high-quality,
compassionate care to our patients. Our list size is around 13,500 patients.
Our practice team is made up of over 40 individuals, including 3 GP Partners, Salaried GPs, Practice Nurse, Healthcare Assistant, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, Social Prescriber,
and a large reception and administrative team. We are an established training practice part of an Approved Learning Environment and committed to providing supervision and training to all of our clinical staff.
The practice nursing team are supported by one of the GP partners who provides weekly supervision. There are strong links with nursing colleagues within the local PCN and they meet on a quarterly basis to share learning. As part
of our dedication to continuous improvement, we maintain numerous external connections
and collaborate with PCN and ICB colleagues to further enhance our practice
services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Education & Training
- Provide nursing advice and support to practice team.
- Contribute to awareness, detection, and prevention of chronic diseases.
- Contribute to chronic disease management.
- Advise on health promotion, prevention, and protection.
- Pursue continuous professional development, including in-house training.
- Participate in multidisciplinary education and training.
- Direct, supervise, and mentor junior nursing staff.
- Lead on infection control.
- Participate in annual appraisal.
Main Responsibilities
As above
- Meet patients nursing care needs, including occasional home visits.
- Initiate and maintain health screening and promotion clinics.
Additional Skills:
- Prioritization and balance of administrative and clinical tasks.
- Contribution to practice policies that relate to nursing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective use of resources and decision-making.
- Working knowledge of GP IT software.
Professional Registration
- Maintain annual registration with the NMC.
- Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and professional accountability.
Governance
- 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 other teams on improving the quality of service and patient care, in response to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Manage, review and identify learning from complaints, incidents and near-miss events relating to the practice, team and self.
- 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 acting or alerting senior management team if the practice appears to contravene policy, or if there are concerns over any aspect of patient care.
Confidentiality
- Maintain confidentiality of information, acting within the terms of the Data Protection Act and Caldicott guidance on patient confidentiality at all times.
- Maintain an awareness of the Freedom of Information Act.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
- The post-holder will manage their own and others health & safety and infection control as defined in the Practices Health & Safety Policy, the Practice Health & Safety Manual, and the Practices Infection Control Policy and published procedures.
- Comply with Practice health and safety policies by following agreed safe working procedures.
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
- Keeping work and general areas clean and tidy, and using appropriate infection control procedures to keep work areas hygienic and safe from contamination.
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually).
- Awareness and compliance with national standards of infection control, hygiene, regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
- Reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
Equality And Diversity
- The post-holder will support, promote and maintain the Practice Equality & Diversity Policy.
- No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
- The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Education & Training
- Provide nursing advice and support to practice team.
- Contribute to awareness, detection, and prevention of chronic diseases.
- Contribute to chronic disease management.
- Advise on health promotion, prevention, and protection.
- Pursue continuous professional development, including in-house training.
- Participate in multidisciplinary education and training.
- Direct, supervise, and mentor junior nursing staff.
- Lead on infection control.
- Participate in annual appraisal.
Main Responsibilities
As above
- Meet patients nursing care needs, including occasional home visits.
- Initiate and maintain health screening and promotion clinics.
Additional Skills:
- Prioritization and balance of administrative and clinical tasks.
- Contribution to practice policies that relate to nursing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective use of resources and decision-making.
- Working knowledge of GP IT software.
Professional Registration
- Maintain annual registration with the NMC.
- Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and professional accountability.
Governance
- 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 other teams on improving the quality of service and patient care, in response to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Manage, review and identify learning from complaints, incidents and near-miss events relating to the practice, team and self.
- 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 acting or alerting senior management team if the practice appears to contravene policy, or if there are concerns over any aspect of patient care.
Confidentiality
- Maintain confidentiality of information, acting within the terms of the Data Protection Act and Caldicott guidance on patient confidentiality at all times.
- Maintain an awareness of the Freedom of Information Act.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
- The post-holder will manage their own and others health & safety and infection control as defined in the Practices Health & Safety Policy, the Practice Health & Safety Manual, and the Practices Infection Control Policy and published procedures.
- Comply with Practice health and safety policies by following agreed safe working procedures.
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
- Keeping work and general areas clean and tidy, and using appropriate infection control procedures to keep work areas hygienic and safe from contamination.
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually).
- Awareness and compliance with national standards of infection control, hygiene, regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
- Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
- Reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
Equality And Diversity
- The post-holder will support, promote and maintain the Practice Equality & Diversity Policy.
- No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
- The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Essential
- Qualified and Registered Nurse
- Knowledge of primary care nursing
- Knowledge of assessment and management of chronic illness
- Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
- Knowledge of professional issues and the NMC
Desirable
- Non Medical prescribing qualification
- Experience of undertaking a research project and applying the
- findings to practice
Experience
Essential
- use of EMIS
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to develop strong and effective working relationships
- Able to demonstrate and high level of personal, professional
- accountability and autonomy
- Ability to manage own time effectively
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications
- Essential
- Qualified and Registered Nurse
- Knowledge of primary care nursing
- Knowledge of assessment and management of chronic illness
- Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
- Knowledge of professional issues and the NMC
Desirable
- Non Medical prescribing qualification
- Experience of undertaking a research project and applying the
- findings to practice
Experience
Essential
- use of EMIS
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to develop strong and effective working relationships
- Able to demonstrate and high level of personal, professional
- accountability and autonomy
- Ability to manage own time effectively
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).
Additional information
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).
