Practice Nurse - Dover, United Kingdom - Buckland Medical Practice

Description

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and self-motivated Practice Nurse to join our friendly team.

The ideal candidate must be post registration and preferablyhave experience in working in general practice. Preferred skills should includecytology, immunisation and vaccination programme including travel immunisation,wound management, ear syringing, health promotion advice as well as generalduties. However, full training would bemade available for the successful candidate.

The Surgery is supported by an excellent clinical andadministrative team. This is a permanentposition.

We would welcome applications from all sections ofthe community. The candidate will be subject to satisfactory references andsuccessful DBS check.

Salary & hours are negotiable and will be discussed atthe interview

Main duties of the job

Toprovide high quality nursing care to meet the needs of the practice population;which includes treatment, screening, preventative care, patient education,clinical quality systems maintenance; and the supervision of any less qualifiedclinical colleagues, while working in partnership with other clinical,management and administrative colleagues to meet stated practice developmentalgoals.

About us

Buckland Medical Centre is a practicecovering 3 sites with 4 partners, 1 salaried GP 2 full time Practice Nurses, 3HCAs and a number of supporting administration and reception staff. We are a friendly, forward thinking, hard working Practice whichprovides care to 11,000 patients.

We offer a wide range of services. Our clinical system is EMIS Web.

Our Practice is rated Good by CQC.

We have a high QOF achievement

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

It is accepted that all clinical skills and competencies may not be available on joining. Training will be available if available and agreed.

To provide basic and higher levels of nursing care as needed for patients

To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counter-parts, escalating to a GP as necessary and also provide supervision for less qualified nursing colleagues in the Practice.

To do cervical cytology sampling, immunisations as outlined by national programmes and local guidelines, working closely with the nursing, clinical and admin team to crate systems to identify patients who are in need of such services and promoting the service hard to reach patients.

To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance

To conduct and assist GPs in providing LARC services

To assist in the provision of procedures such as minor procedures

To act as a chaperone or similar support for other colleagues as needed

To conduct and supervise if necessary other colleagues in anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, ECG, ABPV, peak flow and other practice based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients.

To provide patient health promotion/disease prevention education and counselling focusing on health behaviour change.

To provide a comprehensive travel advice service and travel immunisations to patients of the practice in accordance with practice protocols

To triage patients in person or over the phone to the appropriate member of clinical staff (doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, counsellors, chemists etc.) with the appropriate skills to meet a patients stated needs

To assist members of the clinical team in providing a seamless service through an illness episode providing specific nursing capabilities and directing the nursing component of any illness episode.

To liaise with community nursing colleagues to continue the provision of nursing care in the home if patients are unable to attend the practice and to transfer or share care as appropriate, visiting outside the practice if needed on exceptional circumstances to meet the needs of patients

To provide support to the GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc.

To promote the health and well being of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of the medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.

To provide support and guidance to patients in times of crisis, breaking bad news where necessary to patients and carers and provide on going support as needed

To counsel patients on the meaning of test results and other medical information, conducting phone and in person consultations; triaging patients to an appropriate clinician, finishing a line of investigation, or arrange additional investigations as appropriate in line with practice guideline and protocols and in partnership with clinical colleagues

To eventually establish and participate in a robust system of clinical audit in partnership with other clinical and administrative colleagues, leading in areas appropriate, such as infection control, to a nursing skill set and supporting in other areas such as medicines management.

Administration

To maintain accurate patient records, entering onto the practice system the appropriate agreed codes, using agreed standards of data entry, templates and protocols, completing all documentation, computerised and paper-based, as is required for good patient care.

To support the SPN in creation, maintenance, documentation and training of others in robust systems of data collection, audit and review of all clinical activities, protocols, care pathways and clinical systems, liaising with fellow colleagues in the practice and in the local and national health system as needed to insure good patient care.

To create and maintain in cooperation with other nursing and admin colleagues a system of clinical stock and equipment maintenance, calibration, and supply; working closely with the Practice Manager and SPN to insure cost efficient purchasing of perishable and expensive items.

To maintain all documentation needed to carry out your clinical duties

To participate in Infection Control procedure and protocols and their implementation within the practice.

General

To maintain your own annual registration with the NMC and adhere to its Code of Professional Conduct.

Maintain any other required registrations and certifications necessary to fulfil your role.

To promote a professional approach at all times by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the practice, setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a whole.

To maintain your own continuous CPD and insure a PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development plans.

To participate in and attend practice meetings and in-house training

Provide appropriate constructive feedback to all members of the team and at times being prepared to challenge your colleagues, clinical and administrative, to maintain high standards of professionalism, patient care, service and excellence, prompting others to fulfil their own explicit and implicit responsibilities to patients and colleagues.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable