1 General - To provide general nursing care to patients as appropriate - Take and record full medical notes on all consultations using the computer system - Update and amend the medical computer system with details of ailments, treatments and other advice needed to maintain a full summary - To provide advice, consultation and information about general health and minor ailments and to refer to other members of the practice team as necessary - Perform investigations as necessary, e.g phlebotomy, swabs and other specimens including urine testing as appropriate - Perform ear care following current guidelines and signposting appropriately - Apply and change routine dressings as necessary 2 Health Promotion - to provide smoking cessation advice, healthy living, weight management etc - to provide travel advice and administer immunisations as appropriate using current travel immunisation advice guidelines - perform new patient health checks following protocols and template - perform well person checks on registered patients as appropriate - administering infant immunisations 3 Long Term Conditions - perform routine asthma/COPD checks on patients following current guidelines - help to manage call and recall programmes for patients in conjunction with other members of the primary health care team - Offer Spirometry checks in conjunction with HCA - Monitor patients with diabetes, hypertension and heart disease following current guidelines - Manage patients within the remit of the COPD programme providing education, care plans and personal follow up after exacerbations. - Monitor QoF performance (and other relevant performance standards) and support the team in following up non-attenders 4 Well Woman Care - Offer pill checks following current guidelines - Administer depoprovera injections following current guidelines - Perform cervical smears following current guidelines, complete template and manage follow up system - Perform cervical swabs as appropriate - Offer well woman advice, including family planning guidance - Use recall system to manage call and recall for cervical screening 5 Team working - Attend clinical team meetings on a weekly basis - Monitoring and training junior nursing/healthcare assistant staff as appropriate - Supporting other members of the PHCT within your particular areas of expertise especially family planning and respiratory care - Attend in-house staff training sessions (fire, etc) and carry out all necessary mandatory training - Attend Time Out and other appropriate locality events as arranged - Support the monitoring of clinical stock and reordering as necessary 6 Personal development - Participate in the appraisal process - Attend training updates as necessary in order to maintain clinical knowledge and effectiveness - Taking responsibility for identifying and completing a Personal Education Plan in conjunction with clinical supervisor