Job responsibilities
The following information contains key areas of the Job Description
- Maintain high standards of care within NMC professional Code of Conduct
- Maintain own clinical/professional expertise by participating in clinical activities.
Clinical Duties to include:
- Lead on agreed clinical areas in relation to QOF, LQC & other Enhanced Services
- Responsible for management of treatment and continuing care for patients on an open access basis.
- Overall responsibility for nursing management of groups of patients, for example, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, including responsibility for developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care as per practice protocols.
- Provide health promotion advice where appropriate with referral to GP as appropriate.
- Administer immunisations of children and adults, for example tetanus boosters, holiday vaccinations, and influenza, pneumococcus.
- Provide cervical smear taking in the practice.
- Support with family planning advice where appropriate and within competence
- Provide health assessment services
- Assist in the teaching of other nurses, GP registrars and HCAs etc.
- Will be involved in selecting, carrying out and interpreting specific tests.
Administration:
- Enter all clinical consultations into clinical system
- Utilise all clinical templates contained in clinical system in line with Practice guidance on best practice
Management:
- Exercise leadership and aim to achieve high morale within the nursing team by efficient management skills, good staff relationships and good clear lines of communication.
- Give support to junior staff.
- Work in liaison with facilitators in identifying individual educational development needs.
- Ensure staff awareness of and conformity with nursing policies and procedures.
- Provide nursing input to any decision making process affecting patient care.
- Oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of drugs, vaccinations, immunisations and clinical stores according to practice and legal requirements.
Leadership Role
- Apply national, local and practice policies, standards and guidance
- Ensure nursing team aware how applying local and practice policies, standards and guidance affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
- Lead in the development and delivery of specialist primary care services e.g Long Term Disease Management
- Ensure National Service Frameworks (e.g CHD, Diabetes, Mental Health) are being delivered
- Lead on Clinical Infection Control working with non-clinical infection control lead to meet the standards required of the practice. Including monthly and annual audits and training of staff (including waste, sharps and hand hygiene, clinical hazards)
- Ensure nursing team aware how applying local and practice policies, standards and guidance affect own work
- Participate in clinical supervision, act as a positive role model and mentor junior staff
Maintenance of Treatment and Examination Rooms:
- Lead on ensuring all equipment is clean, safe and organise sterile supply.
- Lead on ensuring stocks are maintained and order as necessary.
- Lead on cold chain and daily vaccine fridge checks
- Lead on ensuring clinical rooms are complaint with IPC and CQC standards
Safeguarding Responsibilities
- The organisation takes the issues of Safeguarding Children, Adults and addressing domestic violence very seriously. All employees have a responsibility to support the organisation in our duties by:
- Attending mandatory training on Safeguarding children and adults.
- Making sure they are familiar with their and the organisations requirements under relevant legislation.
- Adhering to all relevant national and local policies, procedures, practice guidance and professional codes.
- Reporting any concerns to the appropriate authority.
- Be a member of Practice Safeguarding Team and provide support to Adult and Children Safeguarding Lead (s)
- Review, action and lead on Safeguarding issues where required to do so
- Support the audit, reporting, reviewing documentation and provide administrative support where required in support of Safeguarding management for the practice
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and other health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health and Safety Policy, to include:
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.
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 their 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.