Practice Nurse

Job responsibilities

Woodlands Medical Practice

Practice Nurse Job Description and Person Specification

Role Summary:

Job role is 30 hours ( nagotialble )

• To be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the eligible patient population in accordance with Practice policies and protocols.
• The practice nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as health promotion, long term condition management, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.
• A specialist interest in asthma and COPD is desirable, not essential.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE guidance.
• Provide vaccination and travel advice and vaccinations.
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process pathology results as required
• Provide long term condition clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with current legislation.
• Maintain long term condition registers
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Recognise, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs as appropriate
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Be aware of and follow infection, prevention and control policies
• Deliver cervical screening programme

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• Chaperone patients where necessary
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• Participate in clinical audits
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)

This list is not exhaustive and is subject to review as needed.

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent experience
• Registered Nurse (NMC)

Experience

Essential

• 6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years

Desirable

• Experience of chronic disease management

Clinical Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Immunisations (flu, childhood, B12, travel)
• Women's health (Cervical cytology, contraception,)
• Review and management of all long-term conditions including
• Diabetes, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, primary prevention
• Coronary Heart Disease, COPD, Asthma
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Understanding of Extended brief interventions (NICE guidelines)

Desirable

• Travel Health information
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• New patient registrations
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance and public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena

General Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of patient record management systems: EMIS
• Competent in Document Management systems: Docman
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
• Able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Effectively utilises resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

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).