Minor Illness Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness; seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs. These patients will have booked appointments at 15 minuteintervals. There is a requirement to see extra or emergency patients. The Minor Illness nurse will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the duty GP before making such referral.

JOB SUMMARY

To provide face to face minor illness management, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing urgent, on the day (Same Day Urgent Care) to the registered patients of Brierley Park Medical Group.

To provide highly skilled evidence based nursing to patients as an essential part of the health care provided by the practice.

To support the development and delivery of policy and procedures, and providing clinical leadership to appropriate others as required.

The role requires you to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency whilst being assisted and supervised by our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and GPs.

DUTIES AND RSPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction GP Partners and will be dependent on current and evolving practice need.

Minor Illness Management:

To demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice.

To participate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (where this is within the scope of practice, competence and confidence)

To discharge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals / external agencies

To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and level of health care needs, according to their level of competency and code of conduct

To work closely with the wider urgent care teams in delivering high quality patient centred clinical care

To support the triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triage and streaming decision making when required

To participate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting to see the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner)

To work in partnership with patients and their carers to assess individual health needs, plan appropriate care and use every appropriate opportunity to promote health and reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease

To be capable and confident in digital consultation where this is required

To work as an autonomous practitioner within appropriate clinical and professional guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional with the NMC or HCPC
• Independent and supplementary non-medical prescriber
• Relevant professional/health degree
• Clinical supervision training and experience
• Post-registration qualification and ongoing CPD in minor illness management
• Patient group directions and associated policy
• Clinical governance issues in primary care
• Management of patients with complex needs
• Significant post registration experience
• Current or very recent primary and community experience
• Nurse / AHP Leadership

Desirable

• Additional qualification in a specific long term condition ideally diabetes
• Mentor/teaching qualification

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

Brierley Park Medical Group

Address

127 Sutton Road

Huthwaite

Sutton in Ashfield

Nottinghamshire

NG17 2NF

Employer's website

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