Job Description:
Job summary
Join our happy GP practice team as a practice nurse. Please note, we are looking for a Fully Qualified Practice nurse, with experience within General Practice (Essential).
We are seeking a Practice Nurse for up to 20 hours per week, to be worked over two days at Barton House Medical Practice. The successful post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice. The PN will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly with use of knowledge and competencies as a qualified PN. If you are interested in the position feel free to contact Barton House for an informal chat.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve working as part of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high-quality care. The practice nurse duties will include (amongst others): Chronic disease management Cytology Basic wound care, ECGs, INR monitoring, Routine and childhood immunisations. Following agreed clinical protocols as appropriate. Full list of duties will be included on the job description
Overview of your organisation
We are a rural GP practice, in the beautiful location of Beaminster with a fun, happy, hardworking, and resilient team. We are well supported with strong relationships with the community primary care team including a community rehabilitation team, community matron, district nurses. Our clinical team consists of supportive GP's, ANPs Practice Nurse and Health Care Assistants. With a strong management team who are always on hand to help and advice, as well as a friendly nursing team, administration, reception, and dispensary teams. List size 5100, dispensing practice with 2800 dispensing patients
Fully computerised (System One)
Consistently high QOF achievement
Job Summary
To be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice, and will be expected to deliver health promotion as required and chronic disease management in line with their experience.
Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the practice nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- To work to the IPC policy
- Develop implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health.
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide wound care (ulcer/doppler etc) to patients.
- Processing and requesting pathology services/results as required.
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
- Implementation and evaluating individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
- Ensure read codes are used effectively.
- Assist in maintaining chronic disease registers.
- Chaperone patients where necessary
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs to the GP.
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
- Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- Work as part of the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
- Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
- Work as part of the clinical team providing minor illness service (if in scope of practice)
- Secondary responsibilities
- In addition to the primary responsibilities, the practice nurse may be requested to:
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of vaccines.
- Support members of the nursing team including Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomists with assistance where necessary
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice.
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach, i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse Evidence of post registration study Experience of working in a primary care environment Experience of working as a practice nurse Immunisations & Vaccinations Cervical Screening - Smears Wound care - Dressings, doppler and compressions Dressings including legs and compressions Blood Pressure Monitoring ECG Recording Venepuncture - Blood Taking Travel Immunisations Injections - e.g. B12, Depo-Provera
Desirable criteria
Experience of Chronic disease management, NHS Health Checks, Contraception Support eg pill checks, advice NHS Health Checks
CONFIDENTIALITY
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust the practice with, or allow the practice to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source however stored is to be regarded as strictly confidential and staff should only access information held in the Practice for a valid purpose and only appropriate to their job role and will be required to sign an agreement to this effect.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in the proper course of your employment or as required by legislation.
HEALTH & SAFETY
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety, and security, to include:
· Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks thereby contributing to a safe working environment.
· Using security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
· Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way as to minimise the risk of healthcare associated infection.
· Reporting potential risks identified.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:
· Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
· Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.
· Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, including:
· Active participation in regular individual performance review, including an annual appraisal.
· Taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
· Active participation in training to update knowledge and skills in order to maintain competency, including mandatory training.
QUALITY
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
· Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams/Practices performance.
· Contribute to the achievement of practice contractual obligations and targets.
· Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
· Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
· Support a culture of sharing information, knowledge, and reflective practice.
· Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient’s needs.
· Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.
· Apply Practice policies, standards, and guidance.
COMMUNICATION
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
· Communicate effectively with other team members.
· Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
· Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SERVICES
The post-holder will:
· Apply Practice policies, standards, and guidance.
· Remain up to date with the practice objectives.
· Take a full and active part in the staff meetings offering views and opinions to inform decision- making in the practice.
· Participate in audit where appropriate.
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.
Benefits:
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
