Practice Nurse inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED MON 23 DEC 2024

East Leicester Medical Practice are seeking an experienced professional qualified practice nurse to join our practice.

We are keen to identify a new Experienced Nurse to join our dedicated teams of Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants.

We serve 13k patients employing around 45 staff, including 2 Practice Nurses, 3 Health Care Assistances and 1 Phlebotomist.

We are looking for a practice nurse to join our team who is able to work autonomously within their scope of practice and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.

Applicants should have excellent communicational, clinical and organisational skills.

• Management of long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and hypertension,
• Ensuring regular monitoring and patient education of long-term conditions and lifestyle advice
• Support and manage the health needs of women presenting for family planning, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Administer immunisations and vaccinations for adults and children supporting national campaigns (flu, shingles, childhood immunisations)
• provide support, advice and where appropriate vaccinations for patients travelling abroad.
• ear irrigation
• uphold clinical standards and improve patient outcomes

Administer medications in line with Patient Group Directions (PGDs), ensuring safe and legal compliance with prescribing protocols and patient eligibility criteria.

Maintain accurate and up-to-date records andInput patient information, test results, and other relevant data into the electronic health record system (SystmOne).

Complete own referrals and audits where possible.

support administrative tasks required for claims processing when necessary.

Provide information on vaccination benefits and encourage uptake within eligible patient groups.

Create and assess individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients, aimed at enhancing overall health and reducing long-term complications

About us

Job responsibilities:

Providing assessment, screening and treatment services and health education advice

Organise and co-ordinate the provision of nursing services and infection control procedures for the practice with support from the practice and operations managers.

Provide nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or independently to agreed protocols.

Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.

Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as necessary.

Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures

Following appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and despatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment so used. Perform any investigatory procedures requested by the GPs.

Support and maintain infection control policies within the practice for undertaking such procedures

Administrative and professional responsibilities

Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer system as appropriate.

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice.

Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.

Attend and participate in practice meetings as required.

Assist in the formulation of practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols.

Research projects

Co-operate and participate as required in any research projects within the practice.

Liaison

Maintain effective liaison with other agencies and staff concerned with patient care and with all other disciplines within the practice, with appropriate regard to confidentiality.Professional development

Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety policy, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

responsible for your hand hygiene

Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed, and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, certificates of any training should be given to the Practice Manager for photo-coping and entering into your employment file.

Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the practice.

Spillage control procedures, management and training

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

Apply practice policies, standards and guidance

Participate in audit where appropriate

Primary responsibilities

Management of long-term conditions including Chronic disease management such as Asthma, COPD Diabetes

To provide health, wellbeing and lifestyle advice

Observations including ECGS, blood pressures, foot checks urine analysis

Screening including cervical smears

Wound care including dressings and suture removals

Health checks

injections

Vaccinations including child immunisations, travel vaccinations, shingles.