General Practice Nurse with Interest in Developing Diabetes

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

The Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare team, providing personal medical services to the patients of the Practice.

Job Responsibilities

• Help the Practice develop and deliver specialist primary nurse led services including chronic disease management, specifically Diabetes.
• Initiate the role of diagnosis for patients suspected to have a chronic disease, referring to other clinicians as appropriate
• Manage programs of care for patients with chronic diseases by planning, providing, and evaluating care under agreed guidelines and patient group directions.
• Maintain disease registers in liaison with administrative staff.
• Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed by the senior nursing staff and GPs
• Wound and ulcer care
• Removal of sutures
• New patient medicals / urinalysis
• ECGs
• Asthma / peak flow readings / Spirometry
• Venepuncture
• Hypertension management
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
• Assisting GPs with minor surgery clinics
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture and swabs
• Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate
• Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
• Maintaininggeneral tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
• Maintain stock of waiting room leaflets as instructed by the senior Practice nurse, Practice manager or Partners
• Ordering of health promotion literature
• Ordering of stock from the district hospital
• Ordering of vaccines to maintain stock levels
• Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
• Maintain accurate records
• Advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
• Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required
• Undertake home visits, on occasion, if required for flu or Covid vaccinations
• Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post

Personal/Professional development

The post-holder will be required to work independently

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 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
• Taking responsibility for all mandatory training you are required to undertake

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:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognize 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

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 and the Practice Infection Control Policy. 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
• Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
• Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean, sterile and safe way, free from hazards.
• Actively identifying, reporting and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised and escalation to responsible management
• Undertake all mandatory training when required
• A uniform must be worn and properly fastened at all times

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 recognizes 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 which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Confidentiality

• 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 carer, 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 and not shared with anyone else
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder must not divulge any personal information to patients and must always maintain a professional clinician/patient boundary
• 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
• While 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

Knowledge

Essential

• 1) Competency in basic nursing duties for the post
• 2) Knowledge of patient group directives
• 3) Awareness of clinical governance issues in Primary Care

Desirable

• 1) Diabetes management
• 2) Knowledge and understanding of the range of Primary Care and community services
• 3) Knowledge of Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework (QAIF)

Qualifications

Essential

• 1) Registered General Nurse
• 2) NMC Registered
• 3) Continued professional development evidence

Desirable

• 1) Diabetes / Asthma / peak flow / spirometry qualification (or willing to work towards)
• 2) Cytology
• 3) Travel vaccines

Experience

Essential

• 1) Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• 2) Dealing with the public/patients
• 3) Commitment to professional development and peer group learning

Desirable

• 1) Previous Practice Nurse experience
• 2) Experience of Primary Care
• 3) Using Vision INPS clinical system or another clinical system
• 4) Undertaking clinical audit

Skills & Ability

Essential

• 1) Able to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
• 2) Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
• 3) Able to use own initiative, work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
• 4) Able to work under pressure and in a changing environment

Desirable

• 1) Experience of QAIF
• 2) Able to use Microsoft Office software

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• 1) An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• 2) Pleasant and articulate
• 3) Reliable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).