Practice Nurse

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Practice Nurse to join our GP practice team. As a Practice Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering a range of high-quality clinical services and supporting the practice in the provision of excellent patient care.

Working as a member of the practice multidisciplinary team, the post holder will ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to the entitled patient population.

Candidates will ideally have previous experience in diabetes management.

Main duties of the job

The Practice Nurse will provide nursing services including but not limited to adult and childhood immunisations, wound care, cervical screening, long-term condition management, medication administration and contraception checks.

The Practice Nurse will be involved in a number of clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, health promotion, as well as actively supporting the practice management team in the reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedure.

About us

East Croydon Medical Centre is centrally located in the fast developing town of Croydon with its many transport links.

The practice care for 28,000 patients from a diverse population.

We are a large, hardworking General Practice with a multi-disciplinary Team which includes Pharmacists, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Physician Associates, GPs, along with a supportive and experienced administrative Team. We enjoy and feel positive about modern General Practice but also strive to ensure a healthy home/work balance. We are active members of our Primary Care Network and support the ethos behind this.

Job responsibilities

Duties and 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:

• Conducting health assessments, screening, and triage services, and providing appropriate follow-up care.
• Undertaking a range of clinical procedures, including wound care, immunisations, cervical screening, and phlebotomy.
• Supporting patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, and COPD.
• Providing health education and promoting preventative care to patients.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date patient records and documentation.
• Supporting the clinical team with administrative tasks and participating in the development and implementation of clinical protocols and guidelines
• Ensuring that all clinical activities are conducted in line with relevant regulations, standards, and guidelines.
• To prescribe medication for patients in accordance with PGDs and own scope of practice
• To review patient medications to enhance compliance
• To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• To support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice).

Immunisations:

• Weekly ordering of vaccines
• Vaccine stocktake and rotation of stock
• Review of QOF targets and working with care coordinator for recalls
• Ensure data loggers and fridge temperature records on Teamnet
• Coding weekly SCID results
• Ensure care coordinators receiving and actioned weekly imms lists
• Flu order
• Organise flu clinics from June
• Update Vaccine cold chain policy annual

Infection Control:

• 3 monthly audit
• Annual audit and update of infection control policy
• Regular infection control updates for staff

Diabetes:

• Working with DWG 6 weekly meetings
• Organise group consultations for patients
• Organise Health promotion sessions for diabetes
• Review Eclipse data and target achievements
• Report back to Practice Manager and partners re achievements
• Ensure annual update training for staff
• Organise diabetes consultant sessions and DSN sessions
• Ensure monthly DESP spreadsheet completed

Asthma:

• Work closely with asthma group
• Plan and support implementation of robust call/recall system with care coordinators
• Ensure annual update training for staff
• Review QOF targets and achievements 3 monthly

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.
• 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.

This job description is not exhaustive and may be adjusted periodically after review and consultation. You will also be expected to carry out any reasonable duties which may be requested from time-to-time.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience in management of long term conditions e.g.
• asthma, COPD, diabetes, CHD
• Experience in cervical cytology
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team
• Experience in using clinical systems and electronic patient records
• Experience using Docman and/or Emis
• Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice
• Interpreting and implementing local and national policy
• agendas for health

Other requirements

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of a Practice Nurse

Skills

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Polite and confident
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations

Clinical knowledge

• Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• New patient medicals
• Understanding the importance of evidence-based practice
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Chaperone procedure
• Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
• Chronic disease management
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance

Qualifications

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery
• Minimum of 2 years experience working as a Practice
• Nurse
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease
• Management)
• Nurse prescriber

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.