Lead Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role and responsibilities:

• Practice independently in accordance with NMC code of conduct and with reference to practice guidelines, appropriately referring to GPs.
• Maintain accurate documentation of care and utilisation of IT.
• Ensure continuation of own personal and professional development, facilitated by utilisation of clinical supervision networks.
• Practice nurse team leadership.
• Provide focus for nursing expertise within practice, advising nursing staff, appropriate to level of competence.
• Identify training needs of practice nurse team and actively promote life-long learning.
• Carry out annual appraisals, clinical supervision, and competency assessments of practice nurse team.
• Carry out home frailty assessments as per practice guidance and make referrals and care plans as appropriate.
• Share responsibility for ensuring effective inter-practice communication.
• Ensure skills of practice nurse team are appropriately and effectively used to deliver care.
• Ensure care is delivered by practice nurse team members with relevant and appropriate skills.
• Ensure an effective nurse appointment system, in collaboration with the practice manager.
• Ensure that efficient and appropriate stock control is in place.
• Ensure adequate and appropriate practice nurse cover is available within practice.
• Participate in the management review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework.
• Advance clinical nursing practice through the development of shared, evidence-based practice guidelines.
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate new health promotion and chronic disease management services.
• Undertake home visits
• Provide professional advice on practice developments, recommending changes to working practices in line with evidence-based knowledge.
• Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken.
• Lead on infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines.
• Attend Team Leaders meetings regularly.
• Delegate tasks to the Nursing team as appropriate.
• Communicate regularly with other practices in the area to share ideas and good practice.

The post holder is responsible for maintaining their Nursing and Midwifery Registration and Revalidation.

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 strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• 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 recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognize 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.

This job description is intended as a guide to the main duties and responsibilities for the post and should not be considered an exhaustive list.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice.
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes.
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and to understand when to refer to GPs.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Strong IT skills.
• Clear, polite telephone manner.
• 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.

Desirable

• SystmOne user skills
• Quality Outcome Framework (QOF)
• Experience of working in a primary care environment.

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

Mowbray House Surgery

Address

Malpas Road

Northallerton

North Yorkshire

DL7 8FW

Employer's website

http://mowbraygroupsurgeries.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)