Practice Nurse

2 months ago

Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom Leatside Health Centre Full time
Job Title: Practice Nurse

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Practice Nurse to join our team at Leatside Health Centre. As a Practice Nurse, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and contributing to the overall success of our healthcare team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Assess, diagnose, treat, refer, signpost, and discharge patients and service users
  • Provide routine care to patients, as required, in accordance with clinical-based evidence and NICE guidelines
  • Ensure clinical treatment is safe, effective, and conducted within the boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations
  • Undertake telephone triage
  • Ensure personal and professional clinical standards are maintained
  • Adapt styles of communication in order to empower self-management and health education for patients
  • Participate in vaccination programmes, vaccinating patients in the Practice, and/or on home visits
  • Formally and informally, impart knowledge and skills to colleagues, promoting peer review and best practice within the working environment
  • Communicate at all levels within the team, ensuring an effective service is delivered
  • Ensure evidence-based care is delivered at the highest standard, ensuring delivery of the highest quality patient care
  • Work within Practice policies and procedures
  • Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
  • Contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the team, and work colleagues
  • Undertake the collection of pathology specimens, including blood samples, swabs, etc.
  • Perform investigatory procedures as requested by colleagues
  • Establish and maintain good liaison with other Practices, and the wider system, including secondary care
  • Support the clinical team with safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
  • Refer safeguarding concerns, using established safeguarding referral pathways
  • Use appropriate infection control procedures
  • Be aware of safe storage of equipment, and drugs
  • Delegate tasks clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those colleagues taking on the delegated duty
  • Work within Practice policies relating to domestic violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse, and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate
Administration and Professional Responsibilities:
  • Participate in administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice team
  • Ensure accurate and legible notes, of all consultations and treatment, are recorded in the patients' notes
  • Ensure the clinical system is kept up to date with accurate coding
  • Ensure the appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting issues to the relevant person
  • Ensure Collect and maintain statistical information, required for regular and ad hoc reports and audits
  • Attend and participate in Practice meetings, as required
Professional Development:
  • The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, 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 professional development, learning, and performance, by attendance of courses and study days, to ensure registration requirements are met
  • Maintain a Personal Development Plan
  • Demonstrate skills and activities, to others who are undertaking similar work
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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others' health, safety, and security as defined in each Practice Health & Safety Policy, the Practice Health & Safety Manual, and the Practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities, and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way, and free from hazards
  • Actively report health and safety hazards and infection hazards, immediately when recognised
  • Keeping own work areas and general patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role
  • Undertaking periodic infection control training
  • Reporting potential risks identified
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 recognises the importance of people's 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
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 team's performance
  • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies, to meet patients' needs
  • Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources
Communication:

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

  • Communicate effectively with other team members
  • Communicate effectively with patients and carers
  • Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

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