To work as part of the primary healthcare/nursing team with responsibility for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population. The focus of the role is the delivery of evidence based practice for patients with long term conditions and management and preventative nursing interventions, delivering this care to patients in a range of clinics offering alternative appointments and times. 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: Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients Identify, manage and support patients as 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 travel medicine services 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 Maintain chronic disease registers Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies 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.) Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate