Job summary
Priory Gardens Surgery is looking to recruit a minor illness nurse to join their clinical team, to providehigh quality practice nursing skills and services, including minor illness, chronic disease management, and health promotion to the practice population. The post-holder will work as an autonomous practitioner providing mentorship to the practice nurses and health care assistants.
Main duties of the job
Our values are: we care. To care means providing outstanding experience, so that all our patients and employees always feel valued and respected.
About us
Priory Gardens Surgery is a GP practice responsible for 18,000 patients via a GMS contract held with BLMK ICB. Under this contract we employ over 50 staff who work together to deliver GP primary care services to our patients. Our staff skills range from partners, salaried GPs, advanced clinicians such ANPs, pharmacists, paramedics, practice nurses, healthcare assistants, along with a large admin team who supports both clinicians and patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the role:
- Identify and undertake specialist nursing tasks, to include minor illness consultations for at least 50 per cent of the working week, chronic disease management, home visits and nurse triage.
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Provide care for patients presenting in the minor illness clinic and those that are housebound with minor illnesses and urgent on the day appointments.
- Provide a first point of contact within the practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Make professionally autonomous decisions.
- Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports.
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.
- Refer to the duty doctor as necessary, take responsibility for the delivery of specialist nursing care to include the management and administration of a chronic disease clinic, for example asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, CHD, anti-coagulation, etc., both in the surgery and to those that are housebound, as appropriate to experience and training.
Please see the attached job description for further detail.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the role:
- Identify and undertake specialist nursing tasks, to include minor illness consultations for at least 50 per cent of the working week, chronic disease management, home visits and nurse triage.
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Provide care for patients presenting in the minor illness clinic and those that are housebound with minor illnesses and urgent on the day appointments.
- Provide a first point of contact within the practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Make professionally autonomous decisions.
- Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports.
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.
- Refer to the duty doctor as necessary, take responsibility for the delivery of specialist nursing care to include the management and administration of a chronic disease clinic, for example asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, CHD, anti-coagulation, etc., both in the surgery and to those that are housebound, as appropriate to experience and training.
Please see the attached job description for further detail.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- Practice nurse experience within a primary care setting.
- Long condition interest
- Minor illness diploma
- Prescriber
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- Practice nurse experience within a primary care setting.
- Long condition interest
- Minor illness diploma
- Prescriber
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).
