Overview
Job summary
Alexander House Surgery is seeking a motivated and compassionate Nursing Associate to join our friendly and supportive team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care, supporting chronic disease management, promoting health and wellbeing and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team.
The post holder is a Nursing associate registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The post holder will work as part of the general practice nursing team, providing high quality care to patients. The post holder will hold their own clinical caseload to support the needs of patients registered with the Practice and to compliment the needs of the nursing team. This will include undertaking activities as outlined in the current Network Contract and associated direct enhanced services, such as supporting Personalised Care Support Planning and providing cardiovascular health checks.
Working within a Multidisciplinary Team, you will deliver collaborative high quality care adding impact and value to benefit patients, and the General Practice Workforce where appropriate. This may include working collaboratively to organise and facilitate care appropriate to the individual needs of the patient.
Main duties of the job
To support our nursing team, working alongside our registered practice nurse, freeing them up to focus on more complex clinical work. To be able to demonstrate evidenced based practice when undertaking care and delivering Health checks which may be working with patient cohorts who present with i.e., high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, respiratory issues, and foot checks.
- Deliver high standards of nursing care to patients
- Undertake chronic disease management including asthma, COPD, diabetes, and hypertension reviews
- Conduct health promotion and lifestyle advice clinics (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management)
- Carry out NHS health checks and screening programmes
- Assist in infection prevention and control, including maintaining clinical standards and audit processes
- Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records in accordance with NHS and practice policies
- Support GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care
- Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and practice meetings
- Ensure safe management of clinical stock, vaccines, and equipment
- Contribute to safeguarding processes for vulnerable adults and children
- To demonstrate an ability to complete ongoing monitoring, to delegate safely to others and educate with mentoring and supervising others to deliver high quality care templates competently and coherently
- To demonstrate the ability to carry out a full health assessment employing the support from peers as required
- Phlebotomy
- Vaccination and Immunisations recording
About us
Located within a modern three storey Health Centre, Alexander House Surgery a highly regarded, patient-centred practice with a list size of 6100.
The practice is supported by a strong, diverse and experienced team, including:
- 1 Salaried GP
- Clinical Pharmacist
- PCN Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Practice Nurse
- GPA/Trainee nursing Associate
- PCN First Contact Physiotherapist
- Community Link Worker
- Care-Co ordinator
- Care-navigators
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary teams.
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation.
- Demonstrate ability to plan and develop care pathways to meet needs holistically for the patient.
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
Desirable
- Experience of working in General Practice.
- Experience of managing patients in general practice and supporting patient with learning disabilities, severe mental illness, diabetes and those residing in Care Homes.
- Full UK Driving Licence
Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Reliable.
- Enthusiastic and Self-motivated.
- Able to work autonomously.
- Flexible in working arrangements to meet service need.
- Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Able to work at part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
- Ability to be adaptable, apply resilience and work within own professional scope of practice.
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi -disciplinary team.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Maths and English (C and above) or equivalent.
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification.
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
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.
Contract – Permanent
Working Pattern- Full Time
Salary - Negotiable – depending on experience
Employer details
Catherine Burgess- Practice Manager
Alexander House Surgery, Platt Bridge Health Centre, Rivington Avenue, Platt Bridge, WIGAN. WN2 5NG
Employer's website https://www.alexanderhousesurgery.nhs.uk/
For queries about the job please contact:
Catherine Burgess (Practice Manager)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01942 368324
Pay: £27,485.00-£31,157.00 per year
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
