Job summary
We are looking to recruit a motivated and committed Practice Nurse to join our supportive, enthusiastic and friendly team at Eden Court Medical Practice.
Experience in the role of Practice Nurse is essential for this post.
The hours of the post are negotiable for the right candidate with both full and part time hours considered. Salary is comparable to Band 6.
We will offer a competitive salary with excellent terms and conditions which will be discussed at interview. NHS Pension available.
Main duties of the job
Duties to include but not exhaustive:
Management of long term conditions
Cervical cytology
Childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
Phlebotomy
Wound care, including suture removal and dressings
Assisting minor surgery and sexual health clinic
Stock ordering and control
Person specification:
UK registered nurse
Knowledge of Quality Outcome Framework
Must be able to relay clinical information and maintain accurate, comprehensive consultation records
Must have PC skills, ideally be able to use basic word, excel and email. We use SystmOne clinical system.
Able to work in a changing environment and implement change when applicable to provide high quality health care.
Full driving licence
About us
We are a well established training Practice in Castle Vale, Birmingham with four GP Partners, three salaried doctors and junior doctors in training delivering high quality care to 10,600 patients. Our nursing team includes one part time Practice Nurse, one nursing associate and two health care assistants.
We have a wide team of ARRs including Paramedic, Clinical Pharmacist, PA, MSK specialist and Care Co-ordinator.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Eden Court Medical Practice
JOB TITLE: PRACTICE
NURSE BAND 6 EQUIVALENT
REPORTS TO: THE
PARTNERS (Clinically)
THE
PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
Job summary:
The practice nurse will work as part of the
primary healthcare team providing medical services to the patients of practice.
Job responsibilities:
- Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as
directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
- Cytology
- Wound care
- Removal of Sutures
- New Patient Medicals/Urinalysis
- Travel Clinic
- ECGs
- Asthma/Peak Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Long Term Condition Management
- Routine immunisations/Childhood immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being
examined by another clinician
- Assisting GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Willingness to undertake Family Planning diploma desirable but not
essential
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to other nurses
or GPs as appropriate
- Other tasks will include
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as
required
- Chaperoning and assisting patients who are being examined by
another clinician.
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment
rooms
- Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
- Ordering of stock from appropriate companies
- Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records
- A duty to advise Partners/Practice Manager of potential problems
or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or
allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and
other matters. They do so in
confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their
privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description,
the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare
workers. They may also have access
to information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare
workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised
persons, in accordance with practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health &
safety
The post-holder
will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own
and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice
Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the
practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include
(but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to
practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and
cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and
good practice guidelines
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens
process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and
clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
for the practice including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing
correct usage by staff
- Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice
- Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care
protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active observation of current working practices across the
practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,
ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are
identified, escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking
such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and
patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills,
and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to
infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities,
wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment.
Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use,
storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work
areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and
safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally
clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to
other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the
maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in
consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice
annually)
- Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of
work space standards
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation,
container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and
equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and
diversity
The post-holder will support the equality,
diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues by:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights,
interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and
policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients,
carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual,
is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities
and rights.
Personal/Professional
development:
The post-holder will participate in any training
programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training
to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal
and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and
performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are
undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality
within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions,
either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own
and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance
the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet
patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective
communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication
and respond accordingly
Contribution to
the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards
and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
Eden Court Medical Practice
JOB TITLE: PRACTICE
NURSE BAND 6 EQUIVALENT
REPORTS TO: THE
PARTNERS (Clinically)
THE
PRACTICE MANAGER (Administratively)
Job summary:
The practice nurse will work as part of the
primary healthcare team providing medical services to the patients of practice.
Job responsibilities:
- Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as
directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
- Cytology
- Wound care
- Removal of Sutures
- New Patient Medicals/Urinalysis
- Travel Clinic
- ECGs
- Asthma/Peak Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Long Term Condition Management
- Routine immunisations/Childhood immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being
examined by another clinician
- Assisting GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Willingness to undertake Family Planning diploma desirable but not
essential
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to other nurses
or GPs as appropriate
- Other tasks will include
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as
required
- Chaperoning and assisting patients who are being examined by
another clinician.
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment
rooms
- Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
- Ordering of stock from appropriate companies
- Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records
- A duty to advise Partners/Practice Manager of potential problems
or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or
allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and
other matters. They do so in
confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their
privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description,
the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare
workers. They may also have access
to information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare
workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised
persons, in accordance with practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health &
safety
The post-holder
will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own
and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice
Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the
practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include
(but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to
practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and
cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and
good practice guidelines
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens
process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and
clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
for the practice including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing
correct usage by staff
- Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice
- Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care
protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active observation of current working practices across the
practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities,
ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are
identified, escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking
such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and
patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills,
and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to
infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities,
wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment.
Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use,
storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work
areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and
safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally
clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to
other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the
maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in
consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice
annually)
- Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of
work space standards
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation,
container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and
equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and
diversity
The post-holder will support the equality,
diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues by:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights,
interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and
policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients,
carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual,
is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities
and rights.
Personal/Professional
development:
The post-holder will participate in any training
programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training
to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal
and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and
performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are
undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality
within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions,
either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own
and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance
the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet
patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective
communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication
and respond accordingly
Contribution to
the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards
and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Person Specification
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).
