Job summary
Full time/ Part time applications considered
Are you ready to take the next step in your Nursing career? Are you passionate about delivering
outstanding care and have proven leadership experience? .. We're waiting to hear
from you!
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated experienced
Nurse to join and lead our friendly and dedicated Nursing team at Newport
Health Centre, Isle of Wight.
The successful candidate will benefit from continual support from our GP Partnership, Practice Leadership and wider practice teams. We offer a collaborative and positive work environment and investment into your own continual development.
This role may also present an ideal opportunity for anyone who has extensive knowledge and Nursing experience within Primary Care and would like to develop their leadership/management skills.
Main duties of the job
This role will be primarily responsible for the delivery of
our Nurse led services within our primary care setting and have responsibility
for the leadership of our Nurse and Healthcare Assistant (HCA) teams. This
includes oversight for several clinical areas such as infection prevention and
control, health prevention and promotion, chronic disease management, as well
as reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedures.
This is a varied/multifaceted, dynamic role where youll be
offered the opportunity to combine your clinical knowledge with your leadership
experience to enhance patient care and make a difference.
Applicants must:
Be a Registered Nurse (NMC registration
required)
Be enthusiastic and committed to providing high
quality patient care with strong communication and administration skills.
Have expertise in long term condition management
Possess a positive proactive attitude
Have a passion to develop others, leading by
best practice
Inspire a positive, safe, forward thinking
environment
Demonstrate successful leadership skills
If you're seeking an environment that values teamwork and
patient centred care, this could be for you!
We'd welcome informal introductions should you have any questions
pre application or if you'd just like to find out a bit more, Please get in touch (Please see contact details)
About us
We are a friendly, dynamic Practice based centrally on the Isle of Wight. We operate across two surgery sites, our Carisbrooke Surgery and our town centre practice at The Dower House, Pyle Street.
We have a large catchment area with a patient list size of approx 25,000. We continually strive to put patients at the heart of everything we do!
We have a diverse, multi-disciplinary team which includes GP Partners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, MSK Practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Chronic Pain Coach, Care Coordinators, a Social Prescriber and many more vital roles to support our community. As a training practice we remain committed to education and development and regularly support training posts.
We consider ourselves a forward thinking, progressive practice and have recently launched our Chat Doc (WhatsApp) service.
Our knowledgeable teams offer a wide range of services supported by our experienced and approachable clinical team who enjoy sharing their skills.
We are proud of our clinical standards, demonstrated by high QOF achievement and Good across CQC domains.
We pride ourselves on being flexible. Our team are actively involved with our Hampshire & IOW ICB, Central & West PCN, LMC and many other local networks.
We have a thriving and effective patient group who take an active role delivering further innovation and improvement where we can continue to enhance the experience of our patients and community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide leadership to the practice nurse team (comprising of practice nurses and HCAs) in collaboration with the general practitioners and wider team to develop an effective, quality driven practice nurse service.
To promote nursing practice underpinned by the development of evidence-based practice guidelines, for shared delivery of care to the whole practice population. Further, to ensure clinical effectiveness by monitoring of key quality markers relating to guidelines.
Role and responsibilities:
Clinical practice:
-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.
- Lead and develop the nursing team
- 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, including PREP requirements
- Ensure quality annual appraisals are completed
- 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 that efficient and appropriate stock control is in place.
- Ensure adequate and appropriate practice nurse cover is available within practice.
Wider primary health care team role
- Advance clinical nursing practice in the wider nursing team through the development of shared, evidence-based practice guidelines.
- Lead the development and monitoring of key quality markers for practice guidelines, thereby promoting clinical effectiveness.
- Actively participate in educational programmes including medical students and GP registrar, in relation to areas of clinical and practice nursing expertise.
- Co-ordinate and administrate monthly nursing focus meetings for wider nursing team.
- Provide a point of contact for nursing expertise for practice partnership and management.
- Plan, develop, implement and evaluate new health promotion and chronic disease management services.
- Provide professional advice on practice developments, recommending changes to working practices in line with evidence-based knowledge.
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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of 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 way, safe and free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting 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, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises 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 that 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, with 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
- 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
To provide leadership to the practice nurse team (comprising of practice nurses and HCAs) in collaboration with the general practitioners and wider team to develop an effective, quality driven practice nurse service.
To promote nursing practice underpinned by the development of evidence-based practice guidelines, for shared delivery of care to the whole practice population. Further, to ensure clinical effectiveness by monitoring of key quality markers relating to guidelines.
Role and responsibilities:
Clinical practice:
-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.
- Lead and develop the nursing team
- 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, including PREP requirements
- Ensure quality annual appraisals are completed
- 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 that efficient and appropriate stock control is in place.
- Ensure adequate and appropriate practice nurse cover is available within practice.
Wider primary health care team role
- Advance clinical nursing practice in the wider nursing team through the development of shared, evidence-based practice guidelines.
- Lead the development and monitoring of key quality markers for practice guidelines, thereby promoting clinical effectiveness.
- Actively participate in educational programmes including medical students and GP registrar, in relation to areas of clinical and practice nursing expertise.
- Co-ordinate and administrate monthly nursing focus meetings for wider nursing team.
- Provide a point of contact for nursing expertise for practice partnership and management.
- Plan, develop, implement and evaluate new health promotion and chronic disease management services.
- Provide professional advice on practice developments, recommending changes to working practices in line with evidence-based knowledge.
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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of 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 way, safe and free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting 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, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises 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 that 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, with 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
- 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
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation
- Assess complex health & wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet specific needs
- Competence in clinical practice associated with the role
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Knowledge/experience of clinical systems (e.g. SystmOne)
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
Desirable
- Awareness of the NHS Long Term Plan and Transforming Nursing Plan to develop a general practice nursing role for the future.
- Competence in clinical practice associated with the role
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement
- Substantial experience (post-registration) working in a healthcare setting supervising and/or mentoring junior staff
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and/or managerial training
- Portfolio of CPD with evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health, either in a paid, unpaid or informal capacity
- Experience of GMS Contract and QOF requirements
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse with current NMC registration and active PIN
- Minimum 3 years experience post registration
- Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice (or equivalent experience i.e project or research)
- Chronic disease management qualifications
- Competence to undertake Asthma, COPD and Diabetic clinics / reviews and hold relevant certificates
- Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
- Demonstrate an understanding of audit
- Understanding of health and safety issues
- Basic/advanced certificate of life support
Desirable
- Health care management/leadership qualification
- Undertaken mentorship training
Personal Attributes and Qualities
Essential
- Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centred support in a non-judgemental way
- Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
- Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
- Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with patients, their families, carers, community groups, partner agencies, workforce and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work from an asset based approach, building on existing community and personal assets
- Able to provide leadership and finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Commitment to collaborative working with all local agencies (including local health networks, voluntary organisations and community groups)
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of, and ability to work to, policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, information governance and health and safety
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation
- Assess complex health & wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet specific needs
- Competence in clinical practice associated with the role
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Knowledge/experience of clinical systems (e.g. SystmOne)
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
Desirable
- Awareness of the NHS Long Term Plan and Transforming Nursing Plan to develop a general practice nursing role for the future.
- Competence in clinical practice associated with the role
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement
- Substantial experience (post-registration) working in a healthcare setting supervising and/or mentoring junior staff
- Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and/or managerial training
- Portfolio of CPD with evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health, either in a paid, unpaid or informal capacity
- Experience of GMS Contract and QOF requirements
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse with current NMC registration and active PIN
- Minimum 3 years experience post registration
- Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice (or equivalent experience i.e project or research)
- Chronic disease management qualifications
- Competence to undertake Asthma, COPD and Diabetic clinics / reviews and hold relevant certificates
- Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
- Demonstrate an understanding of audit
- Understanding of health and safety issues
- Basic/advanced certificate of life support
Desirable
- Health care management/leadership qualification
- Undertaken mentorship training
Personal Attributes and Qualities
Essential
- Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centred support in a non-judgemental way
- Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
- Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
- Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with patients, their families, carers, community groups, partner agencies, workforce and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work from an asset based approach, building on existing community and personal assets
- Able to provide leadership and finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Commitment to collaborative working with all local agencies (including local health networks, voluntary organisations and community groups)
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of, and ability to work to, policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, information governance and health and safety
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
