Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide nursing care to patients in participation with GPs or independently, working to agreed protocols. Required skills (or a willingness to be trained) may include the following (but this list is not exhaustive):

• Vaccinations (with additional paediatric vaccination certification an advantage)
• Wound care management (including compression bandaging, in line with current evidence-based guidelines)
• Ear irrigation
• Routine immunisations and vaccinations given under a Patient Group Direction
• Cervical Screening
• Management of Long-Term Conditions such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes
• Contraceptive pill checks / sexual health

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide emergency care to patients as necessary and attend annual Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis training
• Chaperoning and assisting, where appropriate, patients who are being examined.
• Undertake the collection, storage and dispatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment used, as per policy
• Assisting in the implementation and management of appropriate health and safety and infection control policies, as defined in local and national polices
• Contributes to management of stock and ordering stock where required
• Contributes to management of medicines and vaccines as per policy
• To recognise and appreciate that people, both colleagues and service users are different and to act in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences
• To ensure that all mandatory training is completed as appropriate and does not become outstanding

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in teams within a clinical setting
• Willing to undertake training relevant to the position
• Accountable to own professional development and performance and act as a role model to others

Desirable

• Experience within a Primary health care setting
• Experience in resource/medicine management
• Experience of using Microsoft office eg. Word, Excel
• Use of clinical systems software e.g. EMIS
• Experience working with Patient Group Directions
• Experience in mentoring student nurses

Personal Attrivutes

Essential

• Good time management with the ability to organise daily tasks and prioritise time sensitive tasks
• Able to deal with change in a rapidly changing environment
• Personable and approachable
• Hard working, reliable and resourceful
• Trustworthy and reliable
• Accountability of own role within a nurse-led service
• Able to build effective working relationships at all levels

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC PIN
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Qualifications and experience in the management of Long-Term
• Conditions such as asthma, COPD and diabetes

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Enthusiastic and motivated to learn new clinical skills where currently not trained

Desirable

• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in Primary Care
• Knowledge of the local and national health policy and the wider health economy

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

Bridge View Medical

Address

67 Coronation Road

Bristol

BS3 1AS

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://bridgeviewmedical.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

Secretarial

• To provide an efficient copy typing and word processing service for GPs and health professionals as required. This includes the typing/proof reading of letters, reports, patient referrals, minutes, memorandums, etc. in an accurate and quality manner.
• Process and maintain referrals using the E Referral System. Maintain all workstreams within the E Referral system.
• Process patient requests via Klinik
• To establish and maintain filing and administrative systems so that written or computer information is easily accessible and secure.
• Process private work requests.
• To retrieve medical records and process requests for the completion of medical/insurance records/photocopying and Subject Access Requests requests/checking of notes and processing through data processor.
• Raise invoices and receive payments for private work.
• To receive incoming and initiate outgoing telephone calls in order to facilitate timely and appropriate communications with others, taking messages and dealing with appropriate queries.
• To be able to retrieve test results, clinic letters, discharge summaries from appropriate computer systems, or liaise with secondary care staff.
• To assist with the gathering of statistics and information when required.
• To provide cover for members of the secretarial team during periods of sickness and annual leave.
• Maintain adequate supplies of office stationery in order to perform your secretarial duties, informing appropriate member of staff when supplies are low.
• Process requests and queries from all systems used within a clinical setting.
• Process requests and queries received via email.

Organisational

• Working as part of a team, with individual responsibilities of ensuring all secretarial tasks are completed to a high standard of professionalism.
• Organise own day to day tasks.
• Make suggestions for improving working procedures

Communication

• Communicate on a daily basis with GPs, care navigators, other clinical or non-clinical staff, health care professionals and other health centre users.
• Communicate daily with patients, face to face and via clinical platforms.
• Interface between surgery, GPs and social services, secondary health centres and community services.
• To be aware of confidentiality and communicate sensitive information in a discreet and sensitive manner.
• Communicate information, messages, results or requests for follow up appointments to patients in a tactful and clear manner. Ensure patients have understood the information that has been given to them.
• To liaise by telephone with a wide range of outside social care services, secondary health centres and other health care service providers.
• To be aware of confidentiality and communication of sensitive information in a discreet and appropriate manner.
• Deal appropriately with general enquiries and requests for information from patients and other service users.
• Ensure urgent referrals are emailed or sent via eRS the appropriate department.
• Work collaboratively with other team members and able to cover their absences across the business

Education and Research

• To participate in mandatory training, personal development plans to learn new skills as part of self and professional development.

Responsibilities common to all posts:

• To ensure that the services managed by the post holder are delivered to a high standard, and to work with the clinical governance team to ensure that appropriate systems and processes are in place, and to ensure that BVM develop an open, learning culture.
• To take personal responsibilities to ensure equalities approach in managing staff, delivery and commissioning services, as well as promoting good practice in implementing relevant statutory requirements.
• To promote effective public, user, and carer involvement in all elements of work.
• To take responsibility for their ongoing personal and professional development through the individual performance review and development process, in dialogue with their line manager.

To take account of the provisions of the Health and Safety At Work Act and:

• To co-operate and enable BVM to carry out their legal duty with regard to Health and Safety
• To not intentionally or recklessly interfere with anything provided for Health and Safety, or for welfare to work.

Dignity at Work Statement

We are committed to treating all of our staff with dignity and respect. You are responsible for behaving in a way that is consistent with the aims of our Equality and Diversity in Employment Policy. This includes not discriminating unfairly in any area of your work and not harassing or otherwise intimidating other members of staff.

Equality Statement

To act in a way that is consistent with Bridge View Medical procedures and the law relating to equality, diversity and rights, and to treat everyone with whom you come into contact equitably, with respect and without discriminating.

To recognise and appreciate that people, both colleagues and service users are different and to act in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Positive attitude to work
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure
• Trustworthy and reliable
• To be caring and have a warm and friendly nature

Qualifications

Essential

• Maths & English GCSE grade 4 or above / equivalent

Desirable

• Maths & English GCSE grade 5 or above
• A levels or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work independently
• Office experience/ admin experience

Desirable

• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience working with confidential information
• Previous Secretarial experience and training
• Use of clinical systems software e.g. EMIS, Klinik

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good IT skills MS office applications/Outlook
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills
• Problem solving and task management skills

Desirable

• Quickbooks

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Bridge View Medical

Address

Malago Surgery

40 St Johns Road

Bristol

BS3 4JE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://bridgeviewmedical.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Follow local MSK pathways and abide by wider Health care system and refer through appropriate referral systems
• Work independently, with access to supervision, to assess, diagnose, triage, and manage patients, taking responsibility for prioritising and managing a caseload of the PCNs Registered Patients
• Receive patients who self-refer (where systems permit) or from a clinical professional within the PCN, and where required refer to other health professionals within the PCN
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role, using their expert knowledge of movement and function issues, to create stronger links for wider services through clinical leadership, teaching and evaluation
• Develop integrated and tailored care programmes in partnership with patients, providing a range of first line treatment options including self-management, referral to rehabilitation focussed services and social prescribing
• Make use of your full scope of practice, developing skills relating to independent prescribing, injection therapy and investigation to make professional judgements and decisions in unpredictable situations, including when provided with incomplete or contradictory information. You will take responsibility for making and justifying these decisions
• Manage complex interactions, including working with patients with psychosocial and mental health needs, referring onwards as required and including social prescribing when appropriate
• Communicate effectively with patients, and their carers where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding diagnoses, pathology, prognosis and treatment choices supporting personalised care
• Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for own practice, including undertaking regular audit and evaluation, supervision and training;
• develop integrated and tailored care programmes in partnership with patients through:

1. effective shared decision-making with a range of first line management options (appropriate for a patients level of activation)
2. assessing levels of Patient Activation to support a patients own level of knowledge, skills and confidence to self-manage their conditions, ensuring they can evaluate and improve the effectiveness of self-management interventions, particularly for those at low levels of activation
3. agreeing with patients appropriate support for self-management through referral to rehabilitation focussed services and wider social prescribing as appropriate

• Designing and implementing plans that facilitate behavioural change, optimise patients physical activity and mobility, support fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and reduce the need for pharmacological interventions
• Request and progress investigations (such as x-rays and blood tests) and referrals to facilitate the diagnosis and choice of treatment regime including, considering the limitations of these investigations, interpret and act on results and feedback to aid patients diagnoses and management plans
• Accountable for decisions and actions via Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Work across the multi-disciplinary team to create and evaluate effective and streamlined clinical pathways and services;
• Provide leadership and support on MSK clinical and service development across the PCN, alongside learning opportunities for the whole multi-disciplinary team within primary care
• Develop relationships and a collaborative working approach across the PCN, supporting the integration of pathways in primary care;
• Encourage collaborative working across the wider health economy and be a key contributor to supporting the development of physiotherapy clinical services across the PCN;
• Liaising with secondary and community care services, and secondary and community MSK services where required, using local social and community interventions as required to support the management of patients within the PCN; and
• Support regional and national research and audit programmes to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the First Contact Practitioner (FCP) programme. This will include communicating outcomes and integrating findings into own and wider service practice and pathway development
• Any other duties that may arise appropriate to the role.

We encourage early applications, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy and appoint prior to the advertised closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel to meetings outside the practice.
• Participate in appraisal, training and supervision processes;
• Contribute to maintaining safe systems of work and a safe environment;
• All Registered Physiotherapists must maintain a valid HPCP Registration at all times
• Participate in revalidation in line with national and professional requirement
• All Registered Physiotherapists are bound by the HPCP Codes of Professional Conduct and this Job Description should be read in conjunction with the current Code
• Be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continued professional development activities and the maintenance of a portfolio, keeping up-to-date of any developments and bringing them to the attention of the wider team as appropriate.
• Have and maintain indemnity

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of clinical governance and training and an understanding of clinical governance in physiotherapy
• Evidence of CPD and post registration activity through portfolio
• Ability to work effectively within a small organisation and multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills

Desirable

• working towards advanced clinical practitioner status
• previous supervisory experience
• experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders
• cognitive behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches / skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Completed Undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professional Council
• Working towards a Masters Level 7 Qualification in Equivalent Specialist knowledge, skills & Experience
• OR
• Has completed Stage 1 of the FCP Roadmap with GP signoff
• OR
• Has completed the 8 primary care e-learning modules and 3 personalised care modules

Desirable

• 3+ years post graduate experience
• Extended scope skills i.e. diploma / MSc module in injection skills, nonmedical independent prescribing or willingness to train
• Currently enrolled with an NHS England approved FCP education provider to work towards Stages 1 and 2 of the FCP Taught and/or FCP Portfolio route

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working at Level 7 capability in MSK related areas of practice or equivalent
• Demonstrate working at advanced assessment diagnosis and treatment
• Extensive experience working as a Senior Physiotherapist/ Specialist/ Extended Scope Practitioner in the field of MSK

Desirable

• Previously worked within Primary Care, NHS or public-sector environment/team

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrates leadership skills as well as the ability to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities
• Responsive, creative, resilient, able to adapt to change and work in challenging environments
• Empathetic and caring

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

Bridge View Medical

Address

67 Coronation Road

Bristol

BS3 1AS

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://bridgeviewmedical.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)