Join our happy GP practice team as a practice nurse.Please note, we are looking for a FULLY QUALIFIED Practice nurse, withexperience within General Practice (Essential).
We are seeking a Practice Nurse for up to 20 hours per week,to be worked over two days, at Barton House Medical Practice. The successfulpost holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreedacceptable limits of practice. The PN will need to prioritise and triage theneeds of patients accordingly with use of knowledge and competencies as aqualified PN. If you are interested in the position feel free to contact BartonHouse for an informal chat.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve working as part of themulti-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high-quality care. The practicenurse duties will include (amongst others): Chronic disease management CytologyBasic wound care, ECGs, INR monitoring, Routine and childhood immunisations.Following agreed clinical protocols as appropriate. Full list of duties will beincluded on the job description
About us
We are a rural GP practice, in the beautiful location ofBeaminster with a fun, happy, hardworking, and resilient team. We are wellsupported with strong relationships with the community primary care teamincluding a community rehabilitation team, community matron, district nurses.Our clinical team consists of supportive GP's, ANPs Practice Nurse and HealthCare Assistants. With a strong management team who are always on hand to helpand advice, as well as a friendly nursing team, administration, reception, anddispensary teams. List size 5100, dispensing practice with 2800 dispensingpatients
Fully computerised (System One)
Consistently high QOF achievement
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the practice nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
* To work to the IPC policy
* Develop implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
* Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health.
* Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
* Provide wound care (ulcer/doppler etc) to patients.
* Processing and requesting pathology services/results as required.
* Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
* Implementation and evaluating individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients.
* Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
* Ensure read codes are used effectively.
* Assist in maintaining 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 to the GP.
* Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
* Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
* Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
* Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
* Work as part of 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.
* Work as part of the clinical team providing minor illness service (if in scope of practice)
* Secondary responsibilities
* In addition to the primary responsibilities, the practice nurse may be requested to:
* Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of vaccines.
* Support members of the nursing team including Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomists with assistance where 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 (RCA)
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Evidence of post registration study
* Experience of working in a primary care environment
* Experience of working as a practice nurse
* Cervical Screening - Smears
* Wound care - Dressings, doppler and compressions
* Dressings including legs and compressions
* Blood Pressure Monitoring
* ECG Recording
* Venepuncture - Blood Taking
* Travel Immunisations
* Injections - e.g. B12, Depo-Provera
* Experience of Chronic disease management, NHS Health Checks, Contraception Support eg pill checks, advice
* NHS Health Checks
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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