General Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Clinical practice

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

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 seasonal vaccination and national 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.

Communication

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

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 and with external stakeholders

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

Delivering a quality service

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 (Learning events)

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

Personal and people development

Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients

Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines

Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements

Undertake mandatory and statutory training

Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines

Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all

Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

Utilising information

Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information

Review and process data using accurate Read codes about patients in order to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes

Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition

Understand own and others responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act

Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team

Learning and development

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

Equality and diversity

Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity

Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture

Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights

Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies

Act as a role model in good practice relating to equality and diversity

Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC registered Nurse Degree

Desirable

• Diploma in Long term conditions, diabetes, respiratory

Experience

Essential

• General practice nurse experienced in General treatment room services and management of long-term conditions.

Desirable

• Management and treatment of Long-term conditions
• Women's health
• Men's health

Knowledge, Skills, Aptitudes

Essential

• Excellent verbal communication & interpersonal skills
• Sound knowledge of computer literacy /IT and using TPP and Microsoft teams
• Ability to work with staff of all levels in a positive supportive manner
• Ability to cope manage change
• Good Consultation skills and the use of Ardens templates
• Requirement to work to IPC Infection Prevention control measures
• Up to date with practice policy requirements including working from PSD's.
• Seasonal/National Vaccination/Immunisation programme training
• Cervical smear taker training
• GDPR training
• Child/Adult safeguarding training.
• Wound care training
• Quality & Outcomes framework

Desirable

• Team Lead skills

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

Gresleydale Healthcare Centre

Address

Glamorgan Way

Church Gresley

Swadlincote

Derbyshire

DE11 9JT

Employer's website

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