The Orchard Medical Centre are looking to recruit a part time, enthusiastic and experienced Health Care Practitioner to join our friendly nursing team within a dynamic and progressive primary care environment. The role involves a range of services including phlebotomy, ECG's, wound care, suture and clip removal, NHS health checks, injections.
This role is for 18 hours and must include a 6.30 finish on a wednesday. This role will also involve working regular saturdays
Main duties of the job
The role involves managing own caseload ofpatients. This will include wound care, removal of sutures and clips,phlebotomy, ECG's, blood pressure, annual health checks.
With correct experience and/or trainingthis can also include hypertension monitoring and ear irrigation.
About us
We work from one site and are based on the outskirts of Bristol. As a valued member of the nursing team, the quality of care that we provide to our patients starts with you. If you are wanting a fresh and exciting challenge within a supportive and friendly practice, please apply today. As a teaching practice we are supportive of personal development.If you would like to meet the team and look around the surgery for an informal visit via an appointment contact
We offer;
**onsite parking**
**working from one site**
**Daily clinical coffee**
Job responsibilities
Line Manager
Nurse Manager
Accountable to
Nurse Manager
18
Job Summary
To be responsible for thedelivery of phlebotomy and other associated tasks, working as part of thepractice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practiceto the entitled patient population. The post holder will work under indirectsupervision of the clinical team and undertake tasks and duties delegated. Theywill work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs ofthe patients, following policies and procedures.
Generic Responsibilities
All staff at The OrchardMedical Centre have a duty to conform to the following:
Equality, Diversity &Inclusion
A good attitude and positiveaction towards ED&I creates and environment where all individuals are ableto achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment is important forthree reasons: it improves operational effectiveness, it is morally the rightthing to do, and it is required by law.
Patients and their familieshave the right to be treated fairly and be routinely involved in decisionsabout their treatment and care. They can expect to be treated with dignity andrespect and will not be discriminated against on any grounds including age,disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy andmaternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Patients have aresponsibility to treat other patients and our staff with dignity and respect.
Staff have the right to be treated fairly inrecruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to work in an environmentwhere diversity is valued and equality of opportunity is promoted. Staff willnot be discriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, gender reassignment,marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion orbelief, sex or sexual orientation. Staff have a responsibility to ensure that you treatour patients and their colleagues with dignity and respect.
Safety, Health, Environmentand Fire (SHEF)
This practice is committed tosupporting and promoting opportunities to for staff to maintain their health,well-being and safety. You have a duty to take reasonable care of health andsafety at work for you, your team and others, and to cooperate with employersto ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. All personnel are tocomply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Environmental ProtectionAct 1990, Environment Act 1995, Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999and other statutory legislation.
Confidentiality
This practice is committed tomaintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permit usto collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health and othermatters, pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have a right toexpect all staff will respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality at alltimes. It is essential that if, the legal requirements are to be met and thetrust of our patients is to be retained that all staff protect patientinformation and provide a confidential service.
Quality & ContinuousImprovement (CI)
To preserve and improve thequality of our output, all personnel are required to think not only of whatthey do, but how they achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, wewill be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way wework. The responsibility for this rests with everyone working within thepractice to look for opportunities to improve quality and share good practice.
This practice continuallystrives to improve work processes which deliver health care with improvedresults across all areas of our service provision. We promote a culture ofcontinuous improvement, where everyone counts and staff are permitted to makesuggestions and contributions to improve our service delivery and enhancepatient care.
Learning and Development
The effective use of trainingand development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with theappropriate skills, knowledge, attitude and competences to perform their role.All staff will be required to partake and complete mandatory training asdirected by the training coordinator, as well as participating in the practicetraining programme. Staff will also be permitted (subject to approval) toundertake external training courses which will enhance their knowledge andskills, progress their career and ultimately, enable them to improve processesand service delivery.
All staff are to recognise thesignificance of collaborative working. Teamwork is essential inmultidisciplinary environments. Effective communication is essential and allstaff must ensure they communicate in a manner which enables the sharing ofinformation in an appropriate manner.
Professional Conduct
At The Orchard medical Centrestaff are required to dress appropriately for their role. Administrative staffwill be provided with a uniform whilst clinical staff must dress in accordancewith their role.
Primary Responsibilities
The following are the coreresponsibilities of the HCP. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carryout other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload andstaffing levels:
It is anticipated HCPs willdevelop skills in respecting patient/clients rights, preferences, choices,culture, identity, communication, Health and Safety and promoting health.
To be aware of maintainingpatient/client confidentiality at all times.
Will not undertake any task orelement of care until he/she has been assessed as competent by an appropriatelytrained registered nurse.
To act as a chaperone asrequired to GPs/Nursing Team.
To maintain standards oforganisation in the treatment, practice and GP rooms.
To assist in general nursingduties on completion of a training programme and the successful assessment of aset standard competency level and under the supervision of Practice NursingTeam, i.e. hypertension, ear syringing, spirometry, dressings, all eligiblevaccinations, delegated activities from specialist clinics e.g. footassessments for diabetes, urine testing, weight/height, blood pressuremeasurements, ECG recording, phlebotomy.
To prepare/assist the GPs inminor surgery/IUD fitting.
To be responsible for thecorrect maintenance, cleaning and disposal of surgical equipment.
To be responsible for there-stocking of all clinical areas and maintaining a stock rotation system.
To ensure that drug/vaccinerefrigerator/s are running at the correct temperature on a daily basis andmaintain the Vaccine Cold Chain.
Be aware and maintainstandards of Infection control.
Instruct patients inappropriate techniques or tasks.
To behave in a professionalmanner at all times, being aware of how attitudes and personal behaviour canimpact on patient/client care and the team as a whole.
To work within amulti-professional team and with patient/client valuing and respectingdiversity, rights and beliefs when different from ones own. To interact in aprofessional manner and effectively within the team.
Report immediately to a memberof clinical staff or Senior Manager any acts of omission or error to safeguardthe interests of the patient/client.
To present her/himself at alltimes in a manner that is open and honest and will work in partnership withpatients, clients, colleagues and the general public to enhance confidence,competence and best practice.
To deal, at all times,politely and respectfully using civilised language and behaviour, with allpatients, client and colleagues. Aggressive, abusive, threatening or violentbehaviour is not accepted.
To present a caring andefficient image and to present her/himself in a reasonable way, with due regardto social acceptability, tidiness and personal hygiene.
To wear the agreed uniform ina clean and presentable condition with safe and suitable footwear. The uniformwill comply with Health and Safety, Infection Control guidelines. Jewellerywill be kept to a minimum.
Maintain accurate clinicalrecords in conjunction with extant legislation
Ensure read codes andtemplates are used effectively
Support the team in dealingwith clinical emergencies
Liaise with external services/ agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerablepatients etc.)
Secondary Responsibilities
In addition to the primaryresponsibilities, the HCP will be requested to:
To identify and liaiseregularly with the Nurse Manager
To take an appropriate levelof responsibility in participating in individual annual performance reviews.
To take responsibility forcompleting and submitting an annual PDP by the appointed date each year
To maintain own clinicaldevelopment by participating within training relevant to their developing role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Experience of working in a primary care environment. Phlebotomy. ECG. Wound Care. Suture and clip removal. Annual health checks.
* Annual hypertension reviews. Ear irrigation. Flu and B12 injections. Compression therapy dressings
Experience
* Experience of working within a nursing team
* Experience in primary care
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.
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