Practice Nurse in Hastings

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As a Practice Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care, working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct. You will provide assessment, treatment, screening, and health education to our patients, working independently and alongside our team of nurses and GPs.

Main duties of the job:

• This role is ideal for someone with experience in Smear testing, chronic disease management, Asthma, Diabetes, wound care, health screening, and risk assessment.
• As a clinical member of the team, the successful candidate will be responsible for the safe and effective delivery and future development of the overall service, working towards the achievement of the Practice aims and objectives and supporting the delivery of the Practice business plan.

Job responsibilities:

• Management of chronic disease
• Identifying significant abnormalities.
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals.
• Ensuring that all investigations required for QOF or Enhanced services are carried out and coded efficiently in patient records.
• Carry out appropriate tests i.e Spirometry, reversibility.
• Therapeutic monitoring
• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using a holistic patient-centred approach.
• Recognising abnormalities.
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
• Wound Care and management
• Assessing routine wounds including trauma.
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations e.g. use of Doppler technique.
• Patient health checks
• Identifying significant abnormalities.
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues.
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified.
• Risk assessment
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems).
• Health screening
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer e.g. women's and men's health, sexual health, older people.
• Undertaking monitoring tasks e.g. smears and providing advice as appropriate.
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the postholder's specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.
• Travel health
• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines.
• Identifying problems.
• Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.
• Immunisation - adult and child
• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously.
• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
• Minor operations
• Assisting the general practitioner and/or undertaking some simple procedures.
• Ear care
• Providing routine ear care.
• Dealing with more complex problems and prescribing if appropriate.
• Mental health
• Communicating with key workers.
• Administering appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.
• Phlebotomy
• Provide a safe and comfortable environment for the patient.
• Clear awareness on patient consent.
• Follow practice policy.
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Follow practice policy.
• Awareness of safe and comfortable procedure.
• Cardiovascular/NHS Health Checks
• Awareness of National Framework & local objectives.
• Identifying significant abnormalities.
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues.
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified.
• ECGs
• As per practice policy.
• Blood sugar monitoring
• Assessment.
• Follow practice policy.
• Carry out procedure safely and in line with Infection Control procedures.
• Smoking Cessation
• Carry out reviews following local policy.

Person Specification:

• Experience leading a team
• Experience of one to ones / appraisals
• Experience of managing Infection Control procedures / protocols
• Qualifications
• Understanding of confidential information
• System One IT experience
• 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.