Practice Nurse in Salisbury

We are currently looking for a compassionate and motivated individual to join our growing team as a Practice Nurse. The successful candidate will work as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality nursing care to our patient population. They will support the delivery of clinical services within their scope of practice, including health promotion, chronic disease management, screening, immunisations and treatment room duties, while contributing to the ongoing development of patient-centred care across the practice.

Main duties of the job:

• The practice nurse will be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services including health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

Job responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice.
• Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to the patients' health.
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure SNOMED CT codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Chaperone patients where necessary.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Be an extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required.
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF, etc.), complying with local and regional guidance.
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients, etc.).
• Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.

Secondary responsibilities:

• Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle.
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
• Support and participate in shared learning within the organisation.
• Opportunities to develop an area of specialist interest, taking the lead within the organisation.
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate.
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA).
• Develop practice administrative and clinical protocols in line with the needs of the patient and current legislation.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Essential: Experience of working within a General Practice or primary care setting.
• Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
• Experience of working autonomously within own scope of practice while contributing effectively to a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience of delivering treatment room services, including immunisations, vaccinations, cervical screening, wound care and phlebotomy.

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.