Practice Nurse in Bushey

A great opportunity to work in this busy, innovative and experienced teaching practice. The multidisciplinary team including GPs, ANPs, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Nurses, HCAs, Phlebotomists, all supported by a superb administration and reception team.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder should be an experienced primary care nurse, who will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care.
• They should demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice.
• They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.
• Procedures will include doing smears, immunisations and dressings.

About us:

Led by 6 GP Partners, Manor View Practice is an award-winning practice with a large and vibrant multi-disciplinary team. There is a nurturing working environment offering outstanding support to the clinical team.

Job responsibilities:

• Working 7-8 hours Thursday and Friday.
• To provide basic and higher levels of nursing care as needed for patients.
• To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counterparts, escalating to a GP as necessary and also provide supervision for less qualified nursing colleagues in the practice.
• To do cervical cytology sampling, immunisations as outlined by national programmes and local guidelines, working closely with the nursing, clinical and admin team to create systems to identify patients who are in need of such services and promoting the service hard to reach patients.
• To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.
• To conduct blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, ECG, peak flow and other practice-based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients.
• To carry out health checks in conjunction with national, local and practice initiatives.
• To provide patient health promotion/ disease prevention education and counselling focusing on health behaviour change.
• To provide travel immunisations to patients of the practice.
• To liaise with community nursing colleagues to continue the provision of nursing care in the home if patients are unable to attend the practice and to transfer or share care as appropriate, visiting outside the practice if needed on exceptional circumstances to meet the needs of patients.
• To provide support to the GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as Diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc. by providing specifically defined clinical sessions, working closely with the GP to manage a patient's overall care.
• To promote the health and well-being of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.

Administrative:

• To maintain accurate patient records, entering onto the practice system the appropriate agreed codes, using agreed standards of data entry, templates and protocols, completing all documentation, computerised and paper-based, as is required for good patient care.
• To maintain in cooperation with other nursing and admin colleagues a system of clinical stock and equipment maintenance, calibration, and supply; working closely with the practice manager to ensure cost efficient purchasing of perishable and expensive items.
• To maintain all documentation needed to carry out your clinical duties including PGDs.
• To participate in Infection Control procedures and protocols and their implementation within the practice.

General:

• To maintain your own annual registration with the NMC and adhere to its Code of Professional Conduct.
• Maintain any other required registrations and certifications necessary to fulfil your role.
• To promote a professional approach at all times by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the Practice, setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a whole.
• To maintain your own continuous CPD and ensure a PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development plans.
• To participate in and attend practice meetings and in-house training.
• You may be required to perform other duties from time to time to meet the needs of patients and the practice.

Person Specification:

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Previous experience working in General Practice.
• Cervical cytology (smear taker) qualification.
• Experience in immunisations and vaccinations.
• Experience in injections specific to individualised patients using PSDs.
• Wound care experience.
• Qualified in Phlebotomy.
• At least one year working in primary care in a GP practice.

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.