Job summary
Inspire
Health is looking to appoint a practice nurse to join our very friendly and progressive nursing team which consists of Practice Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants. This post has become available due to retirement. Our team is rare as it is filled with enthusiastic, caring and highly skilled professionals who work incredibly as a team and offer great support to one another. There isn't another like it! As a result it's a very lovely environment to work in despite the pressures faced by primary care.
We would ideally like to recruit a team member with experience of long term condition management in primary care, in particular respiratory knowledge alongside the many specialist clinical skills required as a practice nurse. However, we would be willing to consider training the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
The Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary care
team providing a wide range of nursing care to a mixed population. This will
require a specialist set of skills and knowledge which the successful candidate
will be required to maintain and update to practice safely.
Please read the attached job description and person
specification documents for further information.
About us
Inspire Health is a dynamic health organisation, based in 2
modern premises in central Chesterfield and Hasland.
There are good public transport and road connections to our
sites, all of which are a short drive away from both the M1 motorway and the
Peak District.
Inspire Health is a progressive medical health care
provider, offering excellent NHS service delivery and patient care to diverse
communities across a variety of settings. The group delivers care to in excess
of 20000 registered patients.
Inspire Health is committed to promoting equality of
opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working
environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills,
free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on
merit.
Salary package is competitive and includes:
NHS Pension
6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if less
than full time / under one year contract) and an additional birthday day off after
probationary period completed
Part time, full time and temporary employment types are all considered.
Working days and hours each day to be negotiated. These will be fixed days, Monday to Friday between the hours of 8-6.30pm.
Interviews are planned for the 8th-10th September.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary care team providing a wide range of nursing care to a mixed population. This will require a specialist set of skills and knowledge which the successful candidate will be required to maintain and update to practice safely.
Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary care team providing a wide range of nursing care to a mixed population. This will require a specialist set of skills and knowledge which the successful candidate will be required to maintain and update to practice safely.
Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse (RN / RGN - not Nursing Associate)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willingness to gain qualifications and skills where the applicant does not yet hold these skills if there is a practice need.
Desirable
- General Practice Nurse Qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Spirometry qualified (ideally ARTP registered but not essential)
- Diplomas or evidence of suitable training in long term conditions such as diabetes, asthma and COPD.
- Mentoring / teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision experience
- Child and adult immunisation
- Cervical Screening
- Wound care knowledge and training
- Travel Health training and experience
- Wound care knowledge and training
- Mentoring / teaching experience
- Spirometry assessment, procedure and interpretation
- Contraception and HRT reviews and initiation
- INR / anti-coagulation training and experience
- Venepuncture
- LARC qualification and experience
Wider Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of accountability of own role and within the context of the wider team
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal issues e.g GDPR, confidentiality, health and safety, safeguarding, domestic violence/vulnerable adults
- Knowledge of local and national health policy.
- Knowledge of wider health economy within primary care and NHS.
- Understanding measures that are required to provide appropriate, accessible and sensitive primary health care services
Desirable
- Understanding of QOF (Quality Outcomes Framework)
- Knowledge of national public health issues and local patient population
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Knowledge of patient group directions, patient specific directions and associated policy
- Willing to do home visits for our housebound patients when required. This may be on foot to suitable locations if required and do not have access to a car or a driving licence so that this is shared.
- Clean driving license and car access
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post registration experience or significant experience in a general practice setting prior to completing their nurse training at university if newly qualified.
- Able to work well within a team and a knowledge of team dynamics
- Some experience in the management of patients with chronic diseases such as but not restricted to; diabetes, COPD, asthma, CKD, CVD.
- Recent general practice and /or relevant nursing experience.
- Ability to work across in different settings related to this role as and when required
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic
- Team player
- Flexibility in relation to working hours, sites and duties
Desirable
- Developing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Auditing experience
- Specialist interest in diabetes, COPD or asthma.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse (RN / RGN - not Nursing Associate)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willingness to gain qualifications and skills where the applicant does not yet hold these skills if there is a practice need.
Desirable
- General Practice Nurse Qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Spirometry qualified (ideally ARTP registered but not essential)
- Diplomas or evidence of suitable training in long term conditions such as diabetes, asthma and COPD.
- Mentoring / teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision experience
- Child and adult immunisation
- Cervical Screening
- Wound care knowledge and training
- Travel Health training and experience
- Wound care knowledge and training
- Mentoring / teaching experience
- Spirometry assessment, procedure and interpretation
- Contraception and HRT reviews and initiation
- INR / anti-coagulation training and experience
- Venepuncture
- LARC qualification and experience
Wider Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of accountability of own role and within the context of the wider team
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal issues e.g GDPR, confidentiality, health and safety, safeguarding, domestic violence/vulnerable adults
- Knowledge of local and national health policy.
- Knowledge of wider health economy within primary care and NHS.
- Understanding measures that are required to provide appropriate, accessible and sensitive primary health care services
Desirable
- Understanding of QOF (Quality Outcomes Framework)
- Knowledge of national public health issues and local patient population
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Knowledge of patient group directions, patient specific directions and associated policy
- Willing to do home visits for our housebound patients when required. This may be on foot to suitable locations if required and do not have access to a car or a driving licence so that this is shared.
- Clean driving license and car access
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post registration experience or significant experience in a general practice setting prior to completing their nurse training at university if newly qualified.
- Able to work well within a team and a knowledge of team dynamics
- Some experience in the management of patients with chronic diseases such as but not restricted to; diabetes, COPD, asthma, CKD, CVD.
- Recent general practice and /or relevant nursing experience.
- Ability to work across in different settings related to this role as and when required
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic
- Team player
- Flexibility in relation to working hours, sites and duties
Desirable
- Developing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Auditing experience
- Specialist interest in diabetes, COPD or asthma.
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).
