Practice Nurse

Job responsibilities

The postholder will utilise general practice nursing skills to deliver primary medical services to Much Birch population. They will provide high quality general practice nursing care as an autonomous practitioner, support others in the clinical area and work within their scope of practice.

The postholder will demonstrate an enhanced range of skills and experience as outlined in the Report template Capability Framework -Skills for Health 2021- and as a Practice Nurse (Enhanced Nurse Level) will deliver the fundamental capabilities of General Practice Nursing.

Role Core Competencies

Will require a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge, which can be generalist with a special interest and/or have management and leadership responsibilities.

Have specialist knowledge, skills, and capabilities.

Consult with patients, their family, and the multi-professional team to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans.

Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced techniques, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions.

Deliver enhanced clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge to manage complex interventions.

Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition or support the multi-disciplinary team to do so.

Participate in clinical audits and research projects, and implement changes as required, including the development, and updating of practice protocols / guidelines and procedures locally.

Work within national and local protocols where these exist.

Recognise boundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred.

Delegate work to other members of the multidisciplinary team and take accountability for the delegated activity.

Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.

Responsibility for team performance and service development and consistently undertake self-development.

The role will also include core expected patient activities and to oversee and educate staff to deliver and monitor the quality of nursing delivered. This will include, but is not limited to:

Simple and complex wound management, doppler and compression

Provision, ordering and safe storage of vaccines for all ages in line with national guidance and an up to date knowledge of PGDs.

Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl as prescribed

Undertaking cervical cytology screening

Contraception care and sexual health assessment and signposting

Regular checks for people with long term conditions this may include diabetes, CHD, heart failure, stroke / TIA, PAD, hypertension, CKD, respiratory care and learning disabilities.

Supervision of junior clinical staff and students

To act as a link worker for an identified population of patients for example those with an identified learning disability.

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Skills

Essential

• Work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Effective team player.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Competent use of EMIS, Microsoft office and other IT programmes.
• Able to organise and plan own workload effectively.

Qualifications

Essential

• Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.
• First degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 12 months experience - Registered Level.
• GPN fundamentals qualification or demonstrable equivalent training or experience -includes basics chronic disease review.
• Able to demonstrate appropriate academic modules, learning units and Continuing Professional Development that enable the delivery of general practice nursing at an enhanced level that are aligned to scope of practice, example long term condition management.
• Contraception and sexual health qualification/training.
• Cervical cytology practitioner (with evidence of 3 yearly updates)
• NMC supervisor/assessor (expected for all registered nurses)
• Lower limb tier 2 trained and competent

Desirable

• Independent / Supplementary Nurse Prescribing -V300.
• Immunisations training with annual updates to include COVID and Flu for Adults and Childrens, and Travel Vaccines - Including risk assessment competency for all ages.
• Lower limb tier 2 trained and competent.

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• Organised, friendly, approachable, polite and empathetic.
• Adaptable and comfortable dealing with changing priorities and be a team player.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in primary care as general practice nurse at registered/enhanced level.
• Experience, knowledge and ability to independently deliver nurse led chronic disease management clinics which may include: Asthma,COPD
• Diabetes, Stroke - TIA,PAD, Hypertension, CKD, Learning disabilities, COPD.
• Experience of working in a multi-professional environment.
• Experience, knowledge and ability to independently deliver safe and effective wound management, this will include competency in:
• Undertake Dopplers, Compression, Hosiery.
• Phlebotomy experience.
• Immunisation experience.

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).