Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being

• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition

• Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition

• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care

• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care • Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals

• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions

• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care

• Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds

• Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs

• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations

•Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children

• Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad

• Promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions

•Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment

• Communicate with and support patients who are receiving ‘bad news’

• 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

• Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens

• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication

• Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment external stakeholders

• Act as an advocate when representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others

•Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality

• Deliver care according to the NSF and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines and evidence-based care

• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation

• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities

• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required

• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate

• Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care

• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation

• Participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events utilising a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis)

• Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate

• Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance

• Work within policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate

• Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time

• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working

• Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties

• Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice

• Accept delegation from other nurses, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice

• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care

• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

•Act as mentor to students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified

• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments

• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

• Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information

• Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Willingness to learn and acquire new skills.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the NHS.
• Evidence of appropriate knowledge base.
• Interest and basic knowledge in longterm conditions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of audit.
• Post registration experience in healthcare environment
• Experience of working in accordance with the NMC Code of professional Conduct

Desirable

• Awareness of the national service framework guidelines.
• Understanding of health and safety issues.
• Practice experience
• Experience of multiskilled approach to Chronic Disease Management
• Uses initiative.
• Gets on well with people at all levels.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse.
• Evidence of Certification and Registration
• Experience of Microsoft Office software
• Experience of dealing with the public/patients

Desirable

• Clinical System skills.
• Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice.
• Basic/advanced certificate of life support.
• Undertaken mentorship training.

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

CCL Solutions Ltd

Address

Core Care Family Practice

Cromwell Primary Care Centre

Cromwell Road, Grimsby

North East Lincolnshire

DN31 2BH

Employer's website

https://www.corecarefamilypractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)