We are currently looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, flexible and reliable Primary Care Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team.We are looking for a Nurse who has previous experience of working in primary care as a Practice Nurse and unfortunately, we are unable to accept any applications who do not have this experience.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Practice Nurse to join our established and collaborative Nursing team at our forward thinking and supportive practice. We have a dynamic team of nurses, healthcare assistants and phlebotomist providing chronic disease management and enhanced services to our 14,500 patient list.
Please see the job specification for further details of requirements. You should be keen to keep yourself updated in the new challenges facing primary care and be prepared to undertake further training as required for the position.
To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.
The duties will include but not limited to day to day primary care nursing such as phlebotomy, ECGs, wound care, adult and child immunisations, B12 injections, BP monitoring as well as Enhanced Practice Nurse skills in chronic disease management, cervical screening and compression dressings.
The post holder has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults in line with the NHS Trusts safeguarding policies and procedures.
They must ensure that they are aware of, and work within, local and national safeguarding legislation, guidance and procedures. The post holder will be required to attend mandatory safeguarding training appropriate to their role and to act at all times to protect the safety and wellbeing of patients, service users and colleges.
Please see Job description and supporting documents for more information.
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, flexible and reliable person to join our lovely team at our semi-rural training practice, a short drive from Bristol.
We are a Park Run practice, interested in the environment and individual wellbeing. We have a garden and an active social team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary:
Able to document contemporaneous Consultations according to
NMC guidelines using EMIS clinical system
Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with
legislation
Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection
procedures, including systems of referral.
Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in
accordance with clinical based evidence
Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines
Request pathology services as necessary
Process pathology results if required
Provide a holistic approach to wound management and
implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines and local
wound protocol
Suture removal
Perform ECGs
Obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or
written)
Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained
Confidentially of information gained at work must be always
preserved
Ensure read codes and templates are used effectively
Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing
long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as
necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
Maintain chronic disease registers
Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and
ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions
Provide vaccination and travel medicine services
Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in
accordance with local and national policies
Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for
cervical cytology smear tests (if carrying out this service)
Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental
health needs
Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to
professional standards
Recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK
guidelines
Able to perform CPR according to current UK guidelines
Secondary:
Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and
well-being programmes
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for
chronic disease patients
Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
Chaperone patients where necessary
Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the
patient is supported appropriately
Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal
of medicines
Support junior members of the nursing team, providing
guidance when 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 learning events
Educational:
Identify personal development and training needs in
conjunction with the Nurse manager and deputy Practice Manager
Participate in clinical supervision and annual appraisals
Support others with their training and development needs
To participate in continuing education and maintain a
contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills
Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
To be familiar with emergency procedures
Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical
governance
Attend team meetings for the purpose of maintaining an informed interest in the work undertaken at the practice and contribute to the
primary healthcare team objectives
Be familiar with and adhere to practice policies and
protocols
Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times
Attend a formal appraisal with their line manager at least
every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress
will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
Personnel:
Maintain good professional relationships
Take reasonable care of their own safety and that of
other persons who may be affected by their act or omission
Co-operation with the practice to ensure all members of the
team adheres to statutory regulations/policies, codes of practice and
departments safety rules
Offer innovative ways of working and opportunities to
facilitate learning
Maintains a caring environment through the support of
colleagues
Take an active involvement in staff meetings
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us
with, or allow us 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 is to be regarded
as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other
healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to
authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures
relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety:
Will implement and lead on a full range of health
promotions. They will manage their own and others health and safety and
infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, and to
adhere to the infection control policy and guidelines. This will include (but
will not be limited to):
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to practice guidelines
Awareness of national standards of infection control and
cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good
practice guidelines
Responsible for the correct and safe management of the
specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and
clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical
and patient process
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
Safe management of sharps procedures
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining
work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health
and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally
clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other
work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance
of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with other sector managers
Undertaking infection control training (minimum
annually)
Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse
Equality and diversity:
Will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients,
carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples
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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings
priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
Will participate in any training implemented by
the practice as part of the employment, such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or
professional development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and
performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are
undertaking similar work
Quality:
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 teams performance
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet
patients needs
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
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
Recognize peoples 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
Discuss with other members of the team how the policies,
standards and guidelines will affect own work
Participate in audit where appropriate
Support the practice in achieving quality indicators and
targets
Standard Requirements:
RGN with current PIN number
To work in accordance with NMC code of conduct
Membership of professional body e.g. RCN/MDU
Appropriate training/experience in chronic disease
management and other training as identified by their manager; evidence of
updates required.
Job description is not exhaustive, you will be required
to carry out other duties required by the practice, on a temporary or
permanent basis.
