GP Nurse Practitioner Hatfield

Job summary

Join Our Team as a GP Nurse Practitioner

Are you a passionate, skilled Nurse Practitioner looking to make a real difference in patient care? We are seeking a dedicated GP Nurse Practitioner to join our busy, friendly practice. Hours are flexible, ranging from 20 to 37.5 hours per week. Our surgery is based on one site and we care for over 12,000 patients.

We are an open, friendly and dedicated multi-disciplinary team with a determination to provide excellent Primary Care to our patients as well as supporting, developing, and encouraging our staff.

For more information, please contact Sarah Smith - Practice Manager at sarah.smith18@nhs.net or phone 01707 269091.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of our established nursing team and responsible for providing the delivery of high-quality patient focussed services.

Burvill House GP Surgery is a caring and supportive team. We are a training practice located in the centre of Hatfield. We have a comprehensive and strong team of clinical and clerical support staff. We are an active member of our PCN.

About us

What We Offer:

• A supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team
• Opportunities for professional growth and continuous education
• A diverse patient population with rewarding clinical challenges
• Modern facilities and access to cutting-edge resources
• Competitive salary and benefits package

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments, diagnosis, and management
• Prescribe medications and develop treatment plans
• Provide health education and promote preventive care
• Work closely with GPs, specialists, and other healthcare professionals
• Support chronic disease management and urgent care services

Requirements:

• Registered Nurse Practitioner with current license and certification.
• Experience in primary care or general practice preferred
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong clinical decision-making abilities
• Compassionate, patient-centred approach

We will also consider a nurse who would like to train to be a nurse practitioner.

Job responsibilities

Main job responsibilities:

• Provide general and specific health screenings to the Practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.To include health screening assessments and health education to patients and their families.
• Chronic disease management.Undertake nurse led clinics asthma, COPD and diabetic.
• Ear irrigation
• Dressings and wound management, including suture/clip removal and leg ulcer management.
• To undertake investigation procedures including ECG/ Urinalysis and routine observations when required.
• Childhood and adult immunisations in accordance with national guidelines including childhood vaccines, travel and flu, Vitamin B12 and Zoladex/Decapeptyl and nebido injections. Including home visits if required.
• Womens health including cervical screening, contraception, administering Depo injections, Coil and implant insertions and menopause advice. Completing both Pill checks and HRT checks. Aiding the completion of Post Natal checks also.
• Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness.
• Organise and coordinate the provision of nursing services for the Practice to include the delegation of duties to other members of the Practice nurse team as appropriate.
• Attend meetings and training at Practice and PCN level.
• Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimensincluding blood glucose and ketone measurements and swabs etc. Perform investigatory procedures requested by the GPs.

Administration and professional responsibilities:

• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team.
• Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes.
• Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded and amended.
• Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the Practice Manager.
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit.
• Be an active participant in auditing clinical practice and assisting with the safe running of the practice. To partake in Nurse meetings and practice regular self-reflection, ensuring further training needs and development are addressed.
• Support and help supervise when required, less experienced members of the clinical team.
• Supplies and equipment:Ensure equipment is used and stored as per manufacturers recommendations.
• Liaise with HCA and other Practice Nurses on ordering of stock.
• Ensure all stock is stored correctly in accordance with COSHH regulations.Complete daily safety checks of the clinical spaces, including ensuring the cold chain is always maintained.
• Report any equipment that does not fulfil manufacturers operating criteria to the Practice Manager.

Training and personal development:

• Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with Practice requirements.Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice.It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.
• Participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the introduction of all members of the Practice staff where appropriate.
• Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.
• If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
• Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan.

Liaison:

• Maintain effective liaison with other health care teams concerned with patient care and with all other disciplines within the Practice.

Confidentiality:

• While 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:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
• Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

Thepost-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way 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-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Communication:

The post-holder 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.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse with active NMC PIN
• Independent prescriber
• Recognised qualification to diploma level or above
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development
• DBS check at enhanced level.
• Current UK professional registration

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and The Scope of Professional Practice
• Post registration experience in acute or community settings.

Desirable

• Primary Care experience
• Experience of using EMIS GP clinical system.
• Experience of Microsoft Office software.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Competent in basic nursing duties required for the post. With proof of qualification for relevant advanced Nursing skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Willingness to participate in clinical audits.
• Flexibility.

Desirable

• Chronic disease management:
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• COPD
• Contraception/ Pill checks
• Menopause/HRT checks
• Doppler/ABPI assessment with compression therapy skills for leg ulcer management.

Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm to developing nursing skills.
• An understanding, acceptance, and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality.
• Practice awareness of own limitations in clinical skill, knowledge, and judgement. Ensuring patient safety at all times.
• Ability to use own assessment, clinical analysis and resourcefulness.
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Able to work in a changing environment.
• Able to use own initiative.

Other

Essential

• Commitment to monitoring clinical skills.
• Commitment to own CPD

Desirable

• Car driver/clean licence

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.