Practice Nurse in Northampton

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

A registered nurse with appropriate qualifications is responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.

The practice nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as 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

Strategic management & planning

• Keep abreast of current affairs and identify potential threats and opportunities
• Contribute to Practice strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future Practice development
• Work with Partners and Practice Manager in planning and setting strategic targets
• To undertake required tasks to meet the agreed aims and be wholly responsible for them
• Develop and maintain effective communication both within the Practice and with relevant outside agencies

Primary Responsibilities

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide vaccination and travel medicine services, including childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
• Provide wound care - ulcer /Doppler etc. to patients, including dressings
• Request pathology services as necessary

Process pathology results as required

Provide chronic disease clinics and Maintain skills and an interest in Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke-TIA and Contraception.

• Delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Implement and promote health during NHS Healthchecks
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children and travel
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs to the appropriate services
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines within own scope of practice
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Maintain baby immunisation results records
• Maintain smears results logs
• Maintain emergency drug kit and log sheets
• Manage daily fridge temperatures and log sheets, and be aware of the cold chain procedures
• Secondary Responsibilities
  • Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
  • Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
  • Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
  • Chaperone patients where necessary
  • Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
  • Liaise with external services including specialist nursing teams and agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients)
  • Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual
  • Understand practice and local policies
  • Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
  • Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines
  • Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
  • Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
  • Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
  • 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

  Other tasks will include

  • Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
  • Maintaining Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
  • Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
  • Assisting with the ordering of vaccinations, dressings and equipment to maintain stock levels
  • A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
  • Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
  • A requirement to undertake patient and Care home visits
  • Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post

  Administrative and professional responsibilities

  Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team.

  Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as

  required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team meeting and

  care planning meetings

  Maintain a personal progress and training plan to keep up to date with

  current thinking and developments, as well as identifying own training

  requirements, attending appropriate courses

  Promote evidence-based practice through use of latest research based

  guidelines

  Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality

  assurance strategies such as the use of peer audit and review

  Maintain professional registration, including revalidating as required

  Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct

  Record accurate consultation date in patients records in accordance with

  NMC guidance and other standards

  Administering of injections as per local PGDs

  Reviewing and signing PGS and keep up to date with revisions

  Keep up to date with pertinent health policy and work with the practice

  team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation

  Work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally

  Demonstrate leadership

  Use technology and appropriate software packages as an aid to the

  planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and

  communicating information

  Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good

  practice

  Knowledge and Understanding of Child protection framework/guidelines

  Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate.

  Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the Practice.

  Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.

  Assist in the routine recall of patients with chronic diseases.

  Assist in the formulation of Practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent experience
• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence in last 2 years
• 6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Immunisations (flu, routine, childhood, B12, travel)
• Wound Care / Treatment of small injuries / Removal of sutures & staples
• Womens health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
• Dressings
• Diabetes review
• Hypertension
• Cardiovascular disease primary prevention
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Understanding of Extended brief interventions (NICE guidelines)
• Cytology certificates
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Competent in the use of patient record management systems: SystmOne
• Competent in Document Management systems: Docman
• Competent in other portals: Open Exeter, Coordinate my Care
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure

Desirable

• Post graduate diploma or degree (Primary Care)
• NMCs 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations
• Travel medicine
• Mental Health
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• New patient medicals
• Chaperone procedure
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Asthma
• Spirometry
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Wootton Medical Centre

Address

36-38 High Street

Wootton

Northampton

Northamptonshire

NN4 6LW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.woottonmedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)