An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified practicenurse to provide 12 months' Maternity leave cover as part of our friendly and welcoming team. We are looking for anexperienced practice nurse for 25 hours per week over 3 days.
To work within an excellent nursing team comprising a full time senior practice nurse, part time practice nurse and part time assistant practitioner alongside a GP team, various ARRS roles and a supportive reception & administrative team.
The successful candidate should have an academic level 6 diploma in long term conditions and be undertaking the Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing Programme.
They must also be working at registered nurse level practice as described in the Primary Care and General Practice Nursing Career and Core Capabilities Framework. This must include Cytology and child immunisations skills.
Main duties of the job
To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients aswell as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of theprimary healthcare team. The duties willinclude all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced RGN and in addition anyroles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard tocurrent training. The candidates must be appropriately trained and certified to provide Cytology, Smears and Child immunisations.
About us
The practice has over 8000 patients, we work closely with 20 other practices as part of north Liverpool PCN. We offer great development opportunities for our team.
Job responsibilities
Professional:
* Carryout annual reviews for chronic diseases
* Diabetes
* CHD
* Asthma
* COPD
* Heart Failure
* PAD
* CKD
* Mental Health reviews
* Learning Disabilities reviews
* Stroke
* Offer travelhealth advice and vaccinations by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior totravel including; vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sunprotection.
* Offeradvice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines areadministered under patient group directions.
* Runningwell person clinics and health promotion programmes by providing assessmentand lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise. Facilitates change.
* Able todocument Consultations according to NMC guidelines
* Ensuresawareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, includingsystems of referral. Ability torecognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
* Performassessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
* Performvenepuncture when required according to local guidelines
* Able torecognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
* Able toperform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
* Abilityto obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
* Be thelead for, and ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
* Abilityto monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to includerefrigeration, sterilizer and emergency equipment.
* Confidentiallyof information gained at work must be preserved at all times.
Managerial:
* Contributeto the assessment of service needs.
* Assistpatients to identify their health needs.
* Contributea nursing perspective to the practice development plan.
* Manageand organise individual patient consultations.
* Aware ofidentification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.
* Toattend staff meetings.
* Ensureeffective relationships and communications with the practice team andother agencies.
* Support thePractice clinical governance agenda.
* Identifychanges to clinical practice that are required to implement evidence-basedguidelines.
Educational:
* Identifypersonal development and training needs in conjunction with the manager.
* Participatein clinical supervision.
* Supportothers with their training and development needs.
* Toparticipate in continuing education and maintain a contemporary level ofprofessional knowledge and skills.
Personnel:
* Maintaingood relations with the practice team.
* Takereasonable care of his/her own safety and that of other persons who may beaffected by his/her act or omission.
* Co-operationwith the practice to ensure all members of the team adheres to statutoryregulations/policies and codes of practice and safety rules.
* Offerinnovative ways of working and opportunities to facilitate learning.
* Facilitatesa learning environment within the team.
* Maintainsa caring environment through the support of colleagues.
Confidentiality:
* In thecourse of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and othermatters. They do so in confidenceand have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and actappropriately
* In theperformance of the duties outlined in this job description, thepost-holder may have access to confidential information relating topatients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcareworkers. They may also have accessto information relating to the practice as a business organisation.All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictlyconfidential
* Informationrelating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or thebusiness of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordancewith the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality andthe protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety:
The post-holder will be involved in a fullrange of promotion and management their own and others health and safety andinfection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, thepractice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policyand published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
* Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to practiceguidelines
* Awarenessof national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/ contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
* Shared responsibility for the correct and safe management of the specimens process includingcollection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers,storage and transport arrangements
* Assist the Infection Control Lead in the maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practiceincluding provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage bystaff
* Assist the Infection Control Lead in responsibility for hand hygiene across the practice
* Assist the Infection Control Lead in theinfection control and clinically based patient care protocols, andimplementation of those protocols across the practice
* Activeobservation of current working practices across the practice in relationto infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring thatprocedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified,escalating issues as appropriate
* Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in away that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
* Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate andmanage the training of others across the full range of infection controland patient processes
* Assist the Infection Control Lead in the monitoring of practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc aresufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack offacilities to be escalated as appropriate.
* Safemanagement of sharps procedures including training, use, storage anddisposal
* Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in atidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation ofremedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsiblemanagement
* Activelyidentifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards andinfection hazards immediately when recognised
* Keepingown work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areaswithin the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance ofgeneral standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation(where appropriate) with other sector managers
* Undertakingperiodic infection control training (minimum annually)
* Routinemanagement of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work spacestandards
* Wastemanagement including collection, handling, segregation, containermanagement, storage and collection
* Spillagecontrol procedures, management and training
* Decontaminationcontrol procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
* Maintenanceof sterile environments
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights ofpatients, carers and colleagues, to include:
* Actingin a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpretingthem in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,and current legislation
* Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
* Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmentaland respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implementedby the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
* Participationin an annual individual performance review, including takingresponsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/orprofessional development
* Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance anddemonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similarwork
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, andwill:
* Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk
* Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision
* Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activitiesand making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teamsperformance
* Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
* Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder shouldrecognize the importance of effective communication within the team and willstrive to:
* Communicateeffectively with other team members
* Communicateeffectively with patients and carers
* Recognizepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly
Contribution to the implementation of services:
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse
Experience
* 2. Experience
* Experience of working in accordance with the NMC Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses
* Ideally experience of Emis clinical system, although training can be given
* Experience of Microsoft Office software
* Experience of dealing with the public/patients
* Leadership and management experience
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* 3. Knowledge/Skills
* Competent in basic nursing duties required for the post
* Specific nursing skills / qualifications
* oCytology
* oChronic disease reviews
* oMedication reviews
* oTravel clinic advice
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* 4. Qualities/Attributes
* An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
* Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
* Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
* Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
* Pleasant and articulate
* Able to work under pressure
* Able to work in a changing environment
* Able to use own initiative
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* 5. Other
* Flexibility of working hours/ able to work at the desired times
* Experience of 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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