Practice Nurse inCambridge inCambridge PUBLISHED
FRI 22 NOV 2024
Bourn Surgery rQod5mOK
In addition to core nursing responsibilities, the Practice Nurse will participate in service enhancement initiatives, local clinical protocols, and safeguarding matters, contributing to the overall development of healthcare services within the practice. The position is part-time, with designated hours on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Thursdays, and emphasises professional development and collaboration within a friendly and dedicated team environment.
Planned interview date: 10th December 2024
Hours: Tuesday and Friday 08:15 18:00, Thursday 08:15 13:00
The role: We are ideally looking for an experienced part-time practice nurse to join our friendly, and dedicated team. We are an experienced training practice and have supported all levels of HCA and nursing team members to progress and are happy to undertake this development again for the right candidate. We would ideally like candidate with experience of supporting womens health clinics and diabetes, or any other chronic disease qualification would be looked upon favourable.
Job Summary:To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team.The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced RGN and any additional roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training
About us
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:
a. To deliver a safe, effective, kind and and responsive nursing service to our patients, always recognising, and within, the confines of your own professional qualifications and capabilities.
b. To assess the needs of patients ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence-based practice.
c. To provide core primary care nursing services to patients, for example, phlebotomy, ECG, BP, cervical smears, suture removal etc
d. To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate for example healthy eating, smoking cessation, alcohol consumption etc
e. Perform holistic assessment of patients attending for ear irrigation
f. To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
g. Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler, etc.) to patients and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines
h. To assess the needs of patients ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence-based practice
i. Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions
j. To provide NHS travel medicine services
k. To implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients that promote health and wellbeing
l. To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health
m. As required and as appropriate to skill set to diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions
n. To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
o. To ensure compliance with the practice chaperone policy
p. To assist GPs with minor surgery or other specialist clinics as required
q. To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
r. To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies, including recognising and manage anaphylaxis and able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation all according to current UK guidelines
s. To recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
t. Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
u. To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
v. To liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
w. To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
x. To understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
Secondary key responsibilities
In addition to the primary key responsibilities, the Practice Nurse may be requested to:
a. Participate in review of nursing protocols as directed by the management team.
b. Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
c. Support and participate in shared learning within the practice in order to improve patient care
d. Contribute to the assessment of service needs and contribute a nursing perspective to the practice development plan
e. Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
f. Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach, i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)
g. Support the practice team with the reviewing and implementation of practice policies and protocols, ensuring conformance to extant legislation
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