Lead Practice Nurse - Tiverton

Job responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

Clinical:

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

· To set up robust nursing protocols where appropriate e.g. childhood immunisations in order to increase uptake rates.

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

· To work with the management and recall teams 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

· To undertake all General Practice Nursing duties and to undertake further learning as appropriate to maintain clinical skills and evidence based knowledge

· To implement practice policies and procedures, developing new and updating existing

policies/protocols as agreed.

· To ensure all members of the team are aware of and adhere to

these policies and procedures to ensure the delivery of high quality patient services.

Management of Nursing team:

· To undertake the day to day management of nursing team and contribute to the smooth running of the practice.

· To ensure that existing systems and processes followed by the nursing team are functioning

· efficiently.

· To monitor these systems and make suggestions for improvement.

· To liaise with the patients services manager in timetabling arrangements for all nursing appointments to ensure appropriate levels of cover.

· To prioritise duties of the nursing team and cover at times of unplanned absences.

· To disseminate information to the whole practice team in relation to the nursing team including appointment availability and any agreed system changes.

· To implement the practice complaints procedure, assisting in investigating

· complaints as required..

· To implement the practice confidentiality policy and ensure training for nursing all staff is

· included as part of their induction and that regular updates take place.

Staff Management

· To line manage all members of the nursing team providing support as required

• To organise and attend meetings with nursing team team on a regular basis (a minimum

of one every 4 weeks). The post holder will prepare agendas and distribute

minutes/action points from these meetings.

• To regularly monitor the skills mix and deployment of staff within the team.

To review the roles and responsibilities of all members of the team on a regular

basis.

• To arrange and record holiday absences for all staff and organise appropriate

holiday cover for staff.

• To implement the practice’s appraisal and performance monitoring systems for

reception team.

• Undertake regular one to one meetings with staff to review their development

objectives, performance and any other work based issues.

• To identify, organise and deliver training identified from staff personal development

objectives.

• Evaluate, organise and oversee staff induction and training and ensure that all

Patent services staff are adequately trained to fulfil their role and that their continuing

development is achieved.

• To monitor nursing staff sickness in accordance with the practice sickness policy

and provide timely records to the Practice Manager.

• Manage staffing levels within the agreed budgets.

• To ensure that the whole nursing team participate in audit (clinical and non-clinical), other quality review measures and significant event reviews.

• To lead, with the support of the Practice Manager, on the recruitment and retention

of nursing team staff.

Strategic management and planning

• To adopt a strategic approach to the development and management of nursing team.

• To plan and monitor the services being offered to patients. This will involve working

in conjunction with the senior management team and Practice Manager to ensure the

delivery of specific services.

• To set objectives for the nursing team and evaluate progress, oversee

implementation of objectives and identify any barriers to reaching these objectives.

These objectives will be agreed in line with overall practice objectives.

• Contribute to the preparation and updating of Practice Development Plans and

oversee the implementation of the aims and objectives in relation to the nursing team.

• Foster an environment within the team that supports staff development and

encourages ideas and takes account of staff opinions.

• Working closely with the managers and partners of the practice to ensure that

the practice meets quality indicators and targets (including the Quality and Outcomes

Framework, Care Quality Commission, key performance indicators and other quality

monitoring measures).

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Post Registration Qualifications, Diabetes Management, Asthma

Desirable

• Postgraduate diploma or degree (Primary Care)
• Leadership and management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a Primary Care environment
• Experience of working as a Practice Nurse
• Experience of Chronic Disease Management

Desirable

• Experience of leading a team

Clinical Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• New patient health checks/Urinalysis/BP/Height/Weight
• Chaperone procedure
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Travel medicine
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Asthma/COPD
• Spirometry
• CHD
• LES/DES/QoF/QiF/CQC related clinical and administrative work
• Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
• Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception etc.)
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and to understand when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of Infection Prevention Control including Public Health issues in the local area
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs, PSDs and associated policy
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Professional clear, polite manner

Desirable

• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• EMIS skills Including Ardens Template use

Skills and Personal Attributes

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Professional clear, polite manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Professional, polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Able to communicate effectively and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Effectively utilises resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team

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).