Job summary
Clayton Medical Centre is seeking a part time Practice Nurse to join our friendly, family Practice to deliver high quality nursing care.
Clayton Medical Centre Serves around 6,000 patients in and around Clayton-le-Moors. We pride ourselves on being a friendly welcoming team, providing a good quality, caring services to our patients and a range of standard NHS and local enhanced services.
Main duties of the job
Responsiblities will include chronic disease management, including COPD, Asthma, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease, cervical screening, childhood vaccinations, delivery of local enhanced services and health promotion.
Ideally you will have a knowledge and understanding of Travel health, dressings and contraceptive services.
You will also be responsible for providing the above services to housebound individuals and therefore need a full UK driving licence, access to your own vehicle and appropriate insurance.
You will need good IT skills in order to maintain appropriate medical records using data entry templates and participate in audits and data collection as necessary.
About us
The Practice team currently consists of: 3 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GP, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 2 Practice Nurses, 1 Assistant Practitioner and 2 Healthcare Assistants. Supporting our Clinical Team are our Senior Administrator, Reception Supervisor, 4 care navigators, 2 Administrators and 1 Prescription Administrator. We are a training practice and regularly welcome FY2, GPST and student nurses as part of their training rotation.
Benefits of the role include:
-Mutually beneficial hours of work
-Competitive annual leave allowance
-Access to the NHS Pension scheme
-High quality training and continued professional development opportunities
-Experience and Supportive team
-The opportunity to be involved in Practice development
For more information about the role, please contact Melanie Crabtree, Practice Manager.
You can also apply with your C.V and covering letter (ensure this describes how you meet the requirements of the role) to: letters.clayton@nhs.net
Closing date for applications: shortlisting will commence when sufficient applications have been received with interview date to be confirmed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Infection Control Lead and work to the IPC policy.
- Undertake Holistic patient assessments with patient and their families.
- Support long term condition management including involvement with quality improvement and assurance initiatives. Teaching patients and families how to manage their condition.
- Support the management of care for frail and housebound patients.
- Support public health screening programmes including immunisation, vaccination, cervical screening and provide opportunistic health promotion advice.
- Support population health management targeting health inequalities and improving access.
- Provide routine nursing care in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and NSF.
- Participate in clinical audit and research projects including supporting development and updating of practice protocols and guidelines.
- Work within national and local protocols.
- Recognise boundaries of practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred.
- Support delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements.
- Be aware of responsibilities under current safeguarding of adults and children policies and adhere to policies and procedures.
- Participate in learning from complaints, incidents and near miss events.
- Undertake all mandatory training and contribute to clinical governance.
- Provide basic wound care in line with local enhanced services.
- Maintain accurate clinical records using data entry templates where available ensuring SNOMED codes are used effectively.
- Contribute to practice targets including QOF and Local Enhanced services.
- Maintain and clean, tidy and effective work area at all times.
- Chaperone patients when requested by GP's, Locums or other nursing staff.
- Support the team with clinical emergencies.
- Liaise with external services to ensure that patients are supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc).
You may be on occasion required to carry out other tasks dependent on factors including workload and staffing levels.
You may on occasion be asked to extend your working day to cover for an absent colleague at short notice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Infection Control Lead and work to the IPC policy.
- Undertake Holistic patient assessments with patient and their families.
- Support long term condition management including involvement with quality improvement and assurance initiatives. Teaching patients and families how to manage their condition.
- Support the management of care for frail and housebound patients.
- Support public health screening programmes including immunisation, vaccination, cervical screening and provide opportunistic health promotion advice.
- Support population health management targeting health inequalities and improving access.
- Provide routine nursing care in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and NSF.
- Participate in clinical audit and research projects including supporting development and updating of practice protocols and guidelines.
- Work within national and local protocols.
- Recognise boundaries of practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred.
- Support delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements.
- Be aware of responsibilities under current safeguarding of adults and children policies and adhere to policies and procedures.
- Participate in learning from complaints, incidents and near miss events.
- Undertake all mandatory training and contribute to clinical governance.
- Provide basic wound care in line with local enhanced services.
- Maintain accurate clinical records using data entry templates where available ensuring SNOMED codes are used effectively.
- Contribute to practice targets including QOF and Local Enhanced services.
- Maintain and clean, tidy and effective work area at all times.
- Chaperone patients when requested by GP's, Locums or other nursing staff.
- Support the team with clinical emergencies.
- Liaise with external services to ensure that patients are supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc).
You may be on occasion required to carry out other tasks dependent on factors including workload and staffing levels.
You may on occasion be asked to extend your working day to cover for an absent colleague at short notice.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working autonomously
- Knowledge of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience managing elderly and or housebound patients.
Desirable
- 2 years post-registration
- Experience with chronic disease management
- Experience of quality initiatives
- An appreciation of the NHS landscape including relationships between the practice, PCN and ICB.
- Working with EMIS Web
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN Qualification
- Current NMC Registration
- Diploma or certificate in long term condition management.
- Child and adult vaccination certification
Desirable
- Cervical Cytology Qualification
- Family planning (women's health) qualification
- Mentor qualification
- Previous general practice experience
Skills, behaviours and Knowledge
Essential
- IT skills (MS Office, internet etc)
- Good clinical system knowledge (ability to record accurate clinical notes)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
- Follow appropriate protocols and policies
- Understand requirements for PGD's and PSD's
- Time management
- Smart, polite and confident
- Planning and organising
- Adaptable
- Using initiative
- Team Working
- Self Motivated
- Flexible
- Confidentiality
- Knowledge of clinical governance and auditing
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Access to own vehicle
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working autonomously
- Knowledge of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience managing elderly and or housebound patients.
Desirable
- 2 years post-registration
- Experience with chronic disease management
- Experience of quality initiatives
- An appreciation of the NHS landscape including relationships between the practice, PCN and ICB.
- Working with EMIS Web
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN Qualification
- Current NMC Registration
- Diploma or certificate in long term condition management.
- Child and adult vaccination certification
Desirable
- Cervical Cytology Qualification
- Family planning (women's health) qualification
- Mentor qualification
- Previous general practice experience
Skills, behaviours and Knowledge
Essential
- IT skills (MS Office, internet etc)
- Good clinical system knowledge (ability to record accurate clinical notes)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
- Follow appropriate protocols and policies
- Understand requirements for PGD's and PSD's
- Time management
- Smart, polite and confident
- Planning and organising
- Adaptable
- Using initiative
- Team Working
- Self Motivated
- Flexible
- Confidentiality
- Knowledge of clinical governance and auditing
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Access to own vehicle
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).