Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to GPs, and other members of the practice and primary care team.
• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans that promote health and well being, and for patients with long term conditions.
• Proactively identify, help in diagnosing and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long term condition.
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribing treatments.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthy, and apply principles of self-care.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Advice, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad.
• Meet the needs of patients presenting with opportunistic wound care.
• Support patients as part of the Minor Injury Service that the practice provides

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered (first level) Nurse
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of post registration education
• Educated at diploma, degree level

Desirable

• Diploma in chronic disease management
• Cervical cytology, family planning, sexual health
• Qualifications/training
• Independent prescribing qualification

Knowledge, skills and attributes

Essential

• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
• Ability to change care management skills to support patients
• Excellent verbal communications skills, able to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
• Good written communication skills, clear concise record
• keeping
• IT skills, Systm One clinical system
• Time management, able to organise workload
• Knowledge of national policy standards which inform and have implications for Practice , NICE, NSF, QOF

Desirable

• Knowledge of local and national health policy
• Wider health economy awareness

Experience

Essential

• Experienced Practice Nurse or a newly qualified nurse with experience of a student nurse placement in Primary Care (training will be provided to the right candidate)
• Experience of nurse-led management of long term conditions
• Experience of developing and implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
• Portfolio evidence of continuous professional development
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as an autonomous practitioner

Desirable

• Multi disciplinary and multi agency working

Other

Essential

• Must be flexible in working hours / able to work at desired times

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Horncastle Medical Group

Address

The Old Vicarage

Spilsby Road

Horncastle

Lincolnshire

LN9 6AL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.horncastlemedicalgroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)