Job summary
Aintree Park Group Practice is a well established GP
Practice in the north of the the city, and currently looks after in excess of
16000 patients, with a team of well skilled healthcare professionals as well as an administrative support team and
a team of Care Navigators. Supporting
the clinical team is the Practice Manager, Patient Services Manager, IT /Admin
Manager as well as the team of Care Administrators and Care Navigators. The Practice aims to ensure all patients are cared for, treated with dignity and respect and to help promote healthy living and well being.
Ideally you will have experience of working within Primary Care and have an ability to liaise with patients, staff and colleagues at all levels.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population across both practice sites. You will be able to demonstrate safe and competent clinical decision-making with a focus on monitoring of long term conditions and chronic disease management, immunisation programmes, cervical cytology, supporting the learning disability register, health prevention, health promotion and screening activities. The main focus of the role will be long term condition management but assessment of acute minor illness from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing and evaluation of care will also form a key responsibility of this role. The post holder will communicate and work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures and contractual requirements. The post holder will work closely with the lead nurse to plan and implement local and national guidelines, contracts and protocols, assisting in the performance monitoring and development of the service as well as helping to ensure the clinical team maintaining the highest professional standards.
About us
The Practice is made up of 2 Partners, supported by salaried GP's, Advance Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurse and Health Care Assistants.The Practice also has its own Pharmacist, and works closely with other health professionals - physiotherapist, health visitors, midwife, health trainer, all of whom have clinics within the Practice. The Practice has 2 surgeries, one in Orrell Park, Liverpool and the other in Old Roan, Aintree. The post holder would be required to work and travel between sites.
At Aintree Park , we pride ourselves as being one big family, providing each other with the necessary support and guidance to achieve the aims and goals of the Practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Support the nursing team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols and standards, and of local projects or initiatives
- Promote the role of the nursing team in the provision of care
- Participate in practice team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda and participate in nurse team meetings
- Promote a learning environment with a no blame culture
- Take responsibility for delivering long term condition management, GMS contract, Direct Enhanced Services, Locally Enhanced Services, Quality and Outcomes Framework, Liverpool GP Specification and Primary Care Network DES outcomes.
- Support the development and training of others in order to maximise staff potential
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model, delivering a quality service
- Support the planning and management of nursing appointments to maximise the effective use of resource.
Delivery
- Deliver care as an individual and team according NICE guidelines and evidence-based care, assessing effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and leading on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team
- Participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation and assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- Prioritise, organise and manage own and others workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality Implement and review the application of evidence-based practice in nursing
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable children and adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures Team working
- Work as an effective team player, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Contribute to nursing team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
- Contribute nursing view to practice management
- Delegate appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of nurses
- Ensure clear nurse referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs
- Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team
- Participate in research programmes as directed by the management team
Clinical practice
Assess, plan, develop, implement, provide and evaluate treatment programmes including, but not limited to:
- Prioritise health problems, intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- Ability to assess and manage the range of conditions encountered in general practice using a variety of assessment tools and consultation models appropriate to the patient and situation using physical and clinical examination skills to inform the assessment and decision-making for the on-going management of the patient.
- Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs
- Diagnose and treat minor illnesses
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence based practice and national/practice protocols, and work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children including patients travelling abroad
- Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
- Health promotion and well-being plus individual plans for patients with/at risk of a long term condition
- Make professionally autonomous decisions and be accountable for safe, evidence based, cost effective, individualised patient care
- Make appropriate referral to other members of the primary, community and secondary team. Signpost appropriately
- Where the post holder is an independent prescriber: to ensure safe, effective and appropriate medications as defined by current legislative framework and local and practice guidelines
Communication
- Advanced communication skills that include skills of influencing and negotiation to enable information to be delivered in understandable formats for patients and behaviour change supported where necessary.
- Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating, including those receiving bad news
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
- Produce written documents that evidence the contribution of the nursing team to the practice priorities
Management of risk
- Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines, drugs, practice stock and equipment
- Act as a role model to support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
- Apply infection-control measures with in the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice
Utilising information
- Use digital technology as an aid to day to day operations
- Review and process data using accurate Snomed codes to ensure easy accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Adhere to statutory and practice requirements such as Information Governance and Freedom of Information Act
Learning and development
- Undertake an annual appraisal
- Act as a mentor for staff and students when required, assessing competence against set standards
- Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses )
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination and take action to overcome this and promote diversity and equality of opportunity
- Support people who need assistance in exercising rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care
- Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
- Support the nursing team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols and standards, and of local projects or initiatives
- Promote the role of the nursing team in the provision of care
- Participate in practice team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda and participate in nurse team meetings
- Promote a learning environment with a no blame culture
- Take responsibility for delivering long term condition management, GMS contract, Direct Enhanced Services, Locally Enhanced Services, Quality and Outcomes Framework, Liverpool GP Specification and Primary Care Network DES outcomes.
- Support the development and training of others in order to maximise staff potential
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model, delivering a quality service
- Support the planning and management of nursing appointments to maximise the effective use of resource.
Delivery
- Deliver care as an individual and team according NICE guidelines and evidence-based care, assessing effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and leading on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team
- Participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation and assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
- Prioritise, organise and manage own and others workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality Implement and review the application of evidence-based practice in nursing
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable children and adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures Team working
- Work as an effective team player, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
- Contribute to nursing team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
- Contribute nursing view to practice management
- Delegate appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of nurses
- Ensure clear nurse referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs
- Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team
- Participate in research programmes as directed by the management team
Clinical practice
Assess, plan, develop, implement, provide and evaluate treatment programmes including, but not limited to:
- Prioritise health problems, intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- Ability to assess and manage the range of conditions encountered in general practice using a variety of assessment tools and consultation models appropriate to the patient and situation using physical and clinical examination skills to inform the assessment and decision-making for the on-going management of the patient.
- Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs
- Diagnose and treat minor illnesses
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence based practice and national/practice protocols, and work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children including patients travelling abroad
- Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
- Health promotion and well-being plus individual plans for patients with/at risk of a long term condition
- Make professionally autonomous decisions and be accountable for safe, evidence based, cost effective, individualised patient care
- Make appropriate referral to other members of the primary, community and secondary team. Signpost appropriately
- Where the post holder is an independent prescriber: to ensure safe, effective and appropriate medications as defined by current legislative framework and local and practice guidelines
Communication
- Advanced communication skills that include skills of influencing and negotiation to enable information to be delivered in understandable formats for patients and behaviour change supported where necessary.
- Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating, including those receiving bad news
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
- Produce written documents that evidence the contribution of the nursing team to the practice priorities
Management of risk
- Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
- Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines, drugs, practice stock and equipment
- Act as a role model to support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
- Apply infection-control measures with in the practice according to local and national guidelines
- Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice
Utilising information
- Use digital technology as an aid to day to day operations
- Review and process data using accurate Snomed codes to ensure easy accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
- Adhere to statutory and practice requirements such as Information Governance and Freedom of Information Act
Learning and development
- Undertake an annual appraisal
- Act as a mentor for staff and students when required, assessing competence against set standards
- Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses )
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
- Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and diversity
- Identify patterns of discrimination and take action to overcome this and promote diversity and equality of opportunity
- Support people who need assistance in exercising rights
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care
- Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- NMC Adult nursing registration
- Adult nursing qualification
- Qualified to degree level
- Clinical supervision training and experience Independent and/or supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
- Be subject to an enhanced CRB check, the outcome of which must be satisfactory to the practice
- Professional Portfolio
- Holding or working towards qualifications in COPD, asthma, diabetes, CHD, cytology ,family planning
- Be well motivated
- Can work well as a member of team
- Feels comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Appropriately involve other professionals in patient care when required.
- Ability to take a leadership role in managing chronic diseases and QOF/ DES/ GMS
- Ability to work under pressure
- A willingness to learn new skills and be open to suggestions
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years primary or community nursing experience
- Understanding of role of the practice nurse Experience in nurse-led management of chronic conditions including COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, CVD, Hypertension, CCF, CKD
- Ability to assess the needs of patients with learning disability, serious mental illness and dementia
- Experience in managing acute minor illness
- Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Clinical leadership skills
- Skills in management of staff and teams
- Good time management skills, punctual, able to manage and prioritise work load
- Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
- Motivational skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to communicate difficult message to patients and families
- Ability provide telephone advice to patients and occasional home visits where appropriate and within levels of competence.
- Evidence of IT literacy and keyboard skills
- Team leader experience
- Teaching and mentorship experience in a clinical setting
- Knowledge of public health issues
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
Desirable
- Hold a current and full driving license and have access to a car
- High level of self-awareness
- Fit with culture of practice team.
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- Reliability
- Flexibility
- Ability to deal with exposure to distressing circumstances or highly emotional events
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to degree level, in a relevant discipline
- NMC registered
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- NMC Adult nursing registration
- Adult nursing qualification
- Qualified to degree level
- Clinical supervision training and experience Independent and/or supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
- Be subject to an enhanced CRB check, the outcome of which must be satisfactory to the practice
- Professional Portfolio
- Holding or working towards qualifications in COPD, asthma, diabetes, CHD, cytology ,family planning
- Be well motivated
- Can work well as a member of team
- Feels comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Appropriately involve other professionals in patient care when required.
- Ability to take a leadership role in managing chronic diseases and QOF/ DES/ GMS
- Ability to work under pressure
- A willingness to learn new skills and be open to suggestions
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years primary or community nursing experience
- Understanding of role of the practice nurse Experience in nurse-led management of chronic conditions including COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, CVD, Hypertension, CCF, CKD
- Ability to assess the needs of patients with learning disability, serious mental illness and dementia
- Experience in managing acute minor illness
- Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Clinical leadership skills
- Skills in management of staff and teams
- Good time management skills, punctual, able to manage and prioritise work load
- Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination
- Motivational skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to communicate difficult message to patients and families
- Ability provide telephone advice to patients and occasional home visits where appropriate and within levels of competence.
- Evidence of IT literacy and keyboard skills
- Team leader experience
- Teaching and mentorship experience in a clinical setting
- Knowledge of public health issues
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
Desirable
- Hold a current and full driving license and have access to a car
- High level of self-awareness
- Fit with culture of practice team.
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- Reliability
- Flexibility
- Ability to deal with exposure to distressing circumstances or highly emotional events
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to degree level, in a relevant discipline
- NMC registered
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).
