Lead Practice Nurse in Royston

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic Lead Practice Nurse to come and work for our small village practice south of Cambridge. Orchard Surgery has a practice list of 8500 patients, 4 GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, 2 practice nurses and 3 health care assistants. We are a friendly, supportive team who go above and beyond for our patients. The clinical team meet daily for coffee and monthly clinical meetings, and are supported by a friendly and experienced administrative team.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based nursing care. You will be expected to work collaboratively with GP Partners and the Practice Manager with responsibility for providing clear leadership to the nursing team. This will ensure a high quality patient centred service. You will be expected to contribute to service development, clinical governance and quality improvement.

About us

We are a small but tight knit team that is supportive, encouraging and enthusiastic with the aim to provide the best possible care to our patients that we can. Many of the team have been at the surgery for a number of years and as such we have developed a close community spirit. We are keen to develop our staff, continuous learning being high on our agenda, along with effective patient management. We are a dispensing practice that includes 2 clinical pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians.

Job responsibilities

• Clinical: Lead the nurse led clinics on diabetes, (and asthma, COPD if keen), provide immunisations, vaccinations, cervical cytology, wound care, responsible for the infection control protocols, prioritise health problems, intervening appropriately, to assist in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care, meet the patients needs presenting for wound care, health promotion and wellbeing plus individual plans for patients with/at risk of a long-term condition.
• Leadership/Managerial: Be the clinical lead in the delivery of Practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority, lead the nursing team in the planning, implementing the local guidance, protocols and standards, participate in team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda and run nurse department meetings, lead on QOF and the delivery for LTC management, maximising income, manage the flu campaign, childhood and adult immunisations, cervical screening etc., attend and participate in Practice Clinical and Educational meetings as required.
• Delivery of a quality service: Plan and manage the nurse appointments and rotas, interpret national strategies and policies in local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice, monitor the performance of the nursing team, prioritise, organise, and manage own and others workload in a way that maintains and promotes quality, lead on infection control within the practice.
• Professional: Maintain NMC registration and CPD, adhere to all mandatory training requirements.

Person Specification

• Minimum 5 years post registration experience.
• Minimum 2 years recent experience in primary care.
• Experience in managing chronic conditions, in particular Diabetes. If not previously, have a willingness to learn.
• Strong understanding of the role of a Practice Nurse in general practice.
• Experience in implementing clinical protocols and guidelines.
• Experience with immunisations, wound care, and cytology.
• Confident in communicating sensitive or complex information to patients and families.
• Strong IT skills including SystmOne.
• Asthma and COPD interest, in addition to diabetes.
• Previous leadership or management role.
• Knowledge of clinical systems.
• Experience in protocol/SOP writing.

Qualifications

• NMC registration.
• Enhanced DBS clearance.
• Specialist qualifications in family planning, diabetes, asthma, CHD, cytology.

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.