Everest Health Partnership
Contract Type: 1 Year Maternity cover (from October 26)
Hours: 25 hours a week
Pay: £21.66 an hour
Post Title: Practice Nurse
Job Summary
The successful candidate must have previous experience of Practice Nursing and demonstrate an understanding of general practice.
Ideally you will have qualifications and be able to demonstrate competencies in areas of Long term condition management, childhood and baby immunisations, vaccinations, travel, wound care and cervical screening.
Key Responsibilities
- To signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway.
- To refer patients to appropriate care settings, within locally agreed healthcare pathways.
- To discharge or treat, as appropriate and within the practitioners’ scope of practice.
- To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including adverse events.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care
Primary Responsibilities:
- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patient’s health
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide vaccination and travel medicine services
- Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process pathology results as required
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Develop, implement, and embed well woman clinics
- Develop, implement, and embed well man clinics
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results logs
- Maintain smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
Communication
- To maintain accurate and systematic documentation of patient interactions and clinical care provided, including any adverse events, child protection issues or other notifiable matters. Ensuring that documentation is of a high standard reflective of Clinical Practice, adhering to local and national guidelines.
- To liaise and interact with multi-professional teams across organisational boundaries, including primary care, social services and secondary care providers according to patient needs and appropriate care pathways.
- Promote collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all members of the team.
- To maintain communication with all healthcare professionals and outside agencies to ensure seamless, patient-centred service provision.
- 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.
- To assist in maintaining accurate data collection.
Delivering a Quality Service
- To operate as an effective member of the Practice team.
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Health and Care Professionals Council.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous 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 NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
- Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes, including clinical audit, across the organisation and its activities.
- Within the practice, and in partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
- Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of local statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance
Organisational
- To ensure effective time management and prioritisation of workload.
- To ensure the security, safe storage and maintenance of any allocated equipment and goods.
- To ensure practice is within good clinical governance and based on sound up-to- date clinical evidence. Where appropriate, to identify and assess any risks associated with patient care or to oneself and communicate these risks to the appropriate clinical manager.
- Be aware of and adhere to all relevant guidance and legislation relating to: Data Protection, Patient Confidentiality, GDPR, and Data Security
Learning & Development
- Maintain own competences.
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences). Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
- To review and expand the role over time in line with the practice’s needs and the practitioner’s development goals
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility is required, and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.
UK driving license holder – preferable
Please submit current CV with additional supporting information
Pay: Up to £21.66 per hour
Expected hours: 25.0 per week
Benefits:
Experience:
- Nursing & Midwifery Occupations: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
Work Location: In person
