Job responsibilities
Full range of treatment room duties to include:
- Adult and childhood immunisations and vaccinations.
- Cervical smear clinics.
- Dressings.
- Ear assessment and irrigation.
- Doppler assessments.
- Removal of sutures and clips.
- Travel assessments and immunisations.
- Assist in clinical emergencies.
- Undertake chronic disease reviews in Asthma/COPD/Diabetes (with appropriate training).
Professional and Clinical Governance:
- Act as a role model for clinical excellence and professional conduct within the nursing team.
- Always work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Participate in significant event analysis, clinical audits, and risk assessments, using findings to implement improvements in practice.
- Keep up to date with evidence-based practice, guidelines, and developments in both chronic disease management and general practice nursing.
- Contribute to the induction and mentoring of new staff members, sharing knowledge and supporting skill development.
- Attend and actively contribute to practice meetings and training sessions.
Patient-Centred Care:
- Deliver care in a manner that is sensitive to the needs of patients from diverse backgrounds, respecting dignity, privacy, and confidentiality.
- Promote health and wellbeing, empowering patients to make informed decisions about their care.
- Act as an advocate for patients, ensuring they have access to appropriate services and resources.
Communication:
- Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues across the practice and within the wider health and social care network.
- Use clear, compassionate, and effective communication to build rapport with patients and carers, adapting your approach to meet individual needs.
- Support practice initiatives aimed at improving patient engagement and attendance for long-term condition reviews and preventative health measures.
Service Improvement:
- Participate in the review and development of clinical protocols and pathways.
- Contribute ideas for improving efficiency, patient experience, and clinical outcomes.
- Work to ensure compliance with CQC requirements, infection control standards, and other regulatory frameworks.
Continuing Professional Development:
- Take responsibility for maintaining your own clinical competence through regular CPD, training, and professional reflection.
- Keep accurate records of training undertaken and competencies achieved.
- Engage in annual appraisal and personal development planning with the lead practice nurse.
Equality and diversity
- Respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients and carers and colleagues.
- Act in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting these in a way that is consistent with the practices policies and procedures and current legislation.
- Behaving is a manner that is welcoming, non- judgmental and respects the individuals circumstances, priorities, feeling and rights.
Information processes
- Record information and activities undertaken with patients and carers in an accurate and timely fashion using manual or computer systems as appropriate.
- Ensuring that the rights, confidentiality and privacy of the patient are observed at all times.
Health, safety and security
- Use the personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertake them in a way that manages the risks
- Use appropriate infection control procedures and maintain work areas in each clinical room so that they are clean, safe and free from hazards reporting of any potential risks identified, including:
- hand washing
- universal hygiene procedures
- collection and handling of laboratory specimens
- segregation and disposal of waste materials
- decontamination of instruments and clinical equipment
- reporting and treatment of sharps injuries
- dealing with blood and body fluid spillages
- Assist patients and colleagues in adopting sound infection control measures.
- Understands and apply the principles of the cold chain.
- Be aware of statutory child health procedures and statutory local guidance and referral criteria.
- Know the health and safety policies and procedures within the workplace, including fire procedures, maintaining documentation, monitoring and maintaining of equipment and furniture within your area of responsibility.
- Be able to identify the risks to health of microbiological and chemical hazards within the working environment according to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health.
