JOB TITLE: Practice Nurse (Fixed term contract)
SALARY: Dependant on experience
HOURS: 30 hours per week
RESPONSIBLE TO: Practice Manager
ACCOUNTABLE TO: Practice Manager and Clinical Lead
JOB SUMMARY:
The post-holder will be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, working within their scope of professional practice to deliver high-quality nursing care to the registered population of The Mosslands Medical Practice.
The Practice Nurse will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based care, health promotion, chronic disease management, vaccination and immunisation programmes, cervical screening, wound care and other nursing interventions that support the health and wellbeing of patients.
The role will contribute to improving patient outcomes, supporting national and local quality initiatives, and delivering high standards of patient-centred care across the practice.
PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES / COMPETENCIES
1. Responsibilities for Patient Care
1.1
To uphold the values of The Mosslands Medical Practice
1.2
In accordance with the practice timetable, work plan and appointment templates, undertake a variety of nursing duties including but not limited to:
· Long-term condition reviews (within competency)
· Cervical cytology
· Childhood and adult immunisations
· Travel vaccinations (where trained)
· Venepuncture
· ECG recording
· Blood pressure monitoring
· Lifestyle advice and health promotion
· Telephone consultations where appropriate Management of clinical correspondence and results within agreed protocols.
· To conduct home visits for patients, on a rota with the nursing team ensuring timely and effective housebound treatments.
· Use critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process to make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
1.3
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing care within professional competence
Support patients to self-manage long-term conditions through education, advice and personalised care planning.
Screen patients for disease risk factors and promote healthy lifestyles.
Provide smoking cessation, weight management and lifestyle advice where appropriate.
Administer medicines and vaccinations in accordance with Patient Group Directions (PGDs), Patient Specific Directions (PSDs) and local policies.
Recognise deteriorating patients and escalate concerns appropriately to a GP or other senior clinician.
Refer patients to other members of the multidisciplinary team or external services in accordance with practice protocols.
Maintain accurate, clear and contemporaneous clinical records in accordance with NMC standards and practice policy.
Undertake telephone and digital consultations where appropriate and within professional competence.
Participate in recall systems and proactive management of patients with long-term conditions.
Support infection prevention and control procedures.
Contribute to the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate nursing services.
Use population health data to identify patients who would benefit from preventative interventions and health promotion activities.
Comply with all relevant practice policies including confidentiality, safeguarding, health and safety, infection control and information governance.
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, collecting data for audit purposes
In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with working along side GPs within primary care
2. Responsibilities for Human Resources
All staff will be familiar with and abide by HR policies and procedures to support the smooth running of the company and will contribute to adequate clinical cover across sites.
3. Responsibilities for physical and financial resources
Support TMMP efforts to maximise practice income through schemes including QOF and Salford Standard
Support TMMP efforts to appropriately control practice and NHS expenditure e.g. cost effective prescribing, appropriate referrals, waste reduction.
4. Communication & Team work
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Engage with Clinical Meetings
- Contribute to good team working and positive working relationships with colleagues in and beyond TMMP
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Use appropriate channels for informal and/or formal feedback to colleagues
Undertake mentorship, teaching and supervision for staff of all levels including doctors, medical students, nurses, student nurses, AHPs and admin staff, assessing competencies against set standards.
5. Planning, organising and improving
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Generate and contribute to ideas for quality improvements (QI)
- Engage with TMMP culture that promotes quality improvements
- Support and engage with the implementation and embedding of positive QI changes
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
6. Partnership Working
Contribute to good team working and positive working relationships with colleagues in and beyond TMMP.
7. Analysis and Data Management
All staff will be familiar with and observe all service processes and protocols relating to accurate data
collection and contribute as necessary to discussions regarding data analysis.
8. Information Management
Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding of patient data
Contribute to excellent Information Governance.
9. Clinical Governance and Performance
A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
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 team’s performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient’s needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Participate in incident reporting and risk management procedures, and contribute to learning and service improvement
11 Decisions, Judgement & Freedom to Act
· will act in accordance with NMC standards
· will act in accordance with advice from medical defence organisation as appropriate
· will act for the Clinician Lead as requested
· be aware of TMMP Grievance and TMMP whistleblowing policy.
12 Physical, Mental & Emotional Demands of the Post
This post can be mentally and emotionally demanding. The nature of this role may include dealing with vulnerable patients, patients with complex needs and/or difficult personal circumstances, exposure to extremes of emotion and psychological distress.
13 Personal & Professional Development
The Mosslands Medical Practice encourages all staff to continually update and develop their skills and knowledge, as this ultimately leads to a more satisfied workforce and therefore better services for our population.
The Mosslands Medical Practice runs a programme of training events at which staff are required to attend and participate.
The Mosslands Medical Practice also have a Personal Development Plan system, in which each individual member of staff can articulate their objectives and aspirations on a regular basis, to develop themselves professionally and personally.
Each member of staff has a responsibility for their own development and that of others.
13.5 Engage with 1-2-1 meetings and NHS and TMMP appraisal processes.
13.6 Contribute to colleague’s appraisal and provide 360 feedback when requested and able.
14 Review
These guidelines are provided to assist in the performance of the contract but are not a firm condition of the contract. This job description will be reviewed as necessary to meet the needs of the service, in consultation with the post holder. This job description is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time in the lights of changing circumstances and in consultation with the job holder. Post-holders are expected to undertake duties that may be reasonably requested of them to maintain excellent quality of patient care and service.
15. Additional expectations
All work and contributions will be delivered within agreed corporate policies, including, but not limited to:
- Clinical Governance Framework
- Safeguarding
- Equality & Diversity
- Health and Safety
- Complaints
- Significant Events
- Risk Management
- Infection Control
- Data protection, Information Governance, Security & Confidentiality
- Standards of Business Conduct & Conflict of Interest
- NHS code of Conduct for NHS Managers
- The 7 principles of public life
- Sustainability
Pay: £16.51-£25.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
