Western Dales Nursing Associate
2 weeks ago
**Job title**: Nursing Associate
**Accountable to**:Western Dales Primary Care Network (PCN)
**Hours per week**: Whole Time (37.5hours)
**Contract**: Permanent
**Pay Scale**: Equivalent Band 4
**Background**:
Western Dales Primary Care Network is a collaboration of three practices; Bentham Medical Practice, Lunesdale Surgery and Sedbergh Medical Practice with a combined population upwards of 20,000. We are looking to expand our nursing team to support the continued delivery of high-quality care both in Practice and the Community aligning to the PCN DES requirements.
**Aims**:
Working within our PCN will reward you with continuity of care for patients, a varied workload, both in Practice and the Community and a supportive working environment.
The following Job Description/Specification and duties may be amended following consultation with PCN management, to facilitate the development of the role and PCN objectives. All interested parties/ personnel should be prepared to accept additional, or surrender existing duties, to enable the efficient running of WDPCN.
**How to apply**:
Applications close: Midnight on Friday 28 June 2024. Acknowledgement of receipt will be sent.
**Key tasks and responsibilities**:
- To work (with MDT support) within own professional boundaries and competencies.
- Take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership, and reflective practice skills
- Delivery (or skills to be developed,) flu vaccinations, B12, ECGs, venipuncture, and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the PCN, in line with the competencies of the role
- Supporting patients, families and carers by providing relevant information on diagnosis, signposting patients to further information or referral to social prescribing link workers etc.
- performing and recording clinical observations and consultations on EMIS WEB such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse
- Recording clinical information accurately and consistently across the PCN practices through recognised templates for data entry.
- discussing and sharing information with registered nurses and or wider clinical team on patients’ health conditions, activities, and responses
- developing an understanding the delivery of care to our patients with complex conditions such as dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities
- Working within Practice and in the Community, including patient's home, care/residential home.
- Embed the core NMC values and expectations of care, compassion, courage, communication, commitment, and competence into everyday practice.
**Communication**:
Internally: Individual Practice & PCN Teams, Clinical Director/ PCN Development Manager
Externally: Patients, Relatives and Carers, Community & Secondary Care Teams, Social services
Attend meetings and provide/deliver documentation in support of planning pathway strategies in delivery of care to patient cohorts and achieving targets.
This Job Description/Specification and duties may be amended following consultation with PCN management, to facilitate the development of the role and PCN objectives. All interested parties/ personnel should be prepared to accept additional, or surrender existing duties, to enable the efficient running of WDPCN.
**Skills and Qualifications**
- Experience of working on own and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Reflective learning; insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload
- Ability to deal with non
- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues across supporting organisations
- Future opportunities to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
- Engage will colleagues and help influence new enhanced ways of working with particular emphasis on digital development
**Confidentiality & Security**:
In performing the duties, the post-holder may have access to confidential information. Staff are therefore required to maintain appropriate standards of confidentiality relating to all aspects of their work, colleagues, practice/PCN business, service users and third-party information and must adhere to policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
The security of access to information is the responsibility of all personnel. Staff must always be vigilant, reporting suspicious activity immediately. Staff must not share passwords or security codes with unauthorised personnel and must
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