Job description

Job responsibilities

Staff Nurse - Pre Assessment (Bank) Bristol Hospital | Nursing | Bank Contract | Part Time | Includes Weekend Work | Up to £21 per hour depending on skills and experience Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you. As a Staff Nurse - Pre Assessment at our Bristol Hospital, you'll drive the standard in patient care. You're registered with the appropriate governing body, plus you bring the qualifications and experience that are relevant to your registration, including NMC. You also have post-registration experience. As a Pre-Assessment Staff Nurse, you will:

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• As a Staff Nurse - Pre Assessment at our Bristol Hospital, you'll drive the standard in patient care. You're registered with the appropriate governing body, plus you bring the qualifications and experience that are relevant to your registration, including NMC.

Experience

Essential

• You also have post-registration experience.

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

Nuffield Health

Address

3 Clifton Hill

Bristol

BS8 1BN

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population. As a member of the nursing team, the post holder is accountable for nursing service delivery. Clinically, the focus of the role is the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients with long-term conditions and management and preventative nursing interventions to all patients. As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible for the care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making. They will work collaboratively with the whole general practice team to meet the needs of patients and supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

Assess, plan, develop, implement, provide and evaluate treatment programmes including, but not limited to:

Health promotion and well-being plus individual plans for patients with or at risk of a long term condition

Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs

Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence based practice and national/practice protocols, and work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments

Prioritise health problems, intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care

Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning

Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children including patients travelling abroad

Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care

Communication

Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment

Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating, including those receiving bad news

Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues

Participate in practice team meetings

Delivering a Quality Service

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

Prioritise, organise and manage own and others workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality

Deliver care as an individual and team according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care, assessing effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and leading on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team

Implement and review the application of evidence-based practice in nursing

Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required

Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care

Lead and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation and assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery

Monitor the performance of the GPN team in accordance with local policies

Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable children and adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate

Interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

Leadership Personal and People Development

Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model

Engage within the nursing team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols and standards, and of local projects or initiatives

Promote the role of the nursing team in the provision of care

Team Working

Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working

Delegate appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of nurses

Ensure clear nurse referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs

Prioritise own and others workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team

Lead nursing team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care

Participate in research programmes

Contribute nursing view to practice management

Set specification and quality required from nursing admin support

Management of Risk

Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients

Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines

Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs

Act as a role model to support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements

Apply infection-control measures with in the practice according to local and national guidelines

Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

Utilising Information

Use technology and appropriate software packages as an aid to day to day operations

Review and process data using accurate read codes in order to ensure easy accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes

Adhere to statutory and practice requirements such as confidentiality and Freedom of Information Act

Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care

Learning and Development

Act as mentor for more junior staff and students, assessing competence against set standards

Disseminate learning and information to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences)

Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning

Equality and Diversity

Identify patterns of discrimination and take action to overcome this and promote diversity and equality of opportunity

Support people who need assistance in exercising rights

Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies

Accept the rights if individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care

Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a nursing team

Desirable

• Experience in Primary Care

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

Newthorpe Medical Practice

Address

Harvest Road

Eastwood

Nottingham

NG16 3HU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Providing secretarial/administrative support to a typing, scanning, photocopying, opening and distributing mail as appropriate. Have a detailed understanding of the Trusts Access Policy and other National/Local targets ie. Cancer, RTT, and works to the standard operating procedures developed to support patient pathways.As required to process patients onto EPR for Local Anaesthetic procedures and book patients onto Galaxy at the request of Senior Medical Secretarys. Validate data regarding patient pathways to ensure PTLs are updated on a weekly basis. Use initiative in filtering information and be proactive in dealing with routine matters, seeking support from the Senior Medical Secretary. To audio type, clinical letters and process minutes of meetings as required. Assist with any data collection and entry required. Deal with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives, etc, which may be of a sensitive nature, in a constructive and sympathetic manner, referring to the appropriate person where necessary. To ensure that EPR is updated with patient data when received from patients. Maintain efficient office systems. To ensure accuracy when administering relevant IT systems. The systems will include EPR and/or other local IT systems. Works in close liaison with the Senior Medical Secretary and other secretaries and administrative team to assist in the smooth running of the Medical Teams secretarial and administrative service. Works to the SOPs developed to support patient pathways. The job holder will contribute to the effective and efficient running of the service highlight any areas where efficiency can be realised. The jobholder will support the Medical Team in implementing new ways of working, revised operating procedures and policies alongside general improvements to processes and practice. Such duties at a comparable level of responsibility associated with the work of the post which may vary from time to time.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Previous secretarial/office experience
• Experience of working face to face and/or telephone contact with the general public

Desirable

• Experience of working in NHS

Skills

Essential

• Literacy and Numeracy skills
• Excellent keyboard skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
• Knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office packages, including use of Excel and Power-point, internet, e-mail etc...
• Knowledge of EPR or other Patient Administration System

Desirable

• Medical Terminology

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE standard*
• Audio Typing

Desirable

• Shorthand
• RSA III or equivalent typing/word processing

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

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

SLH

SLH, Little Horton Lane

Bradford

BD9 6RJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Experienced Primary Care Pharmacy Technician will work as an integral member of the PCN pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams, under appropriate clinical supervision. The post holder will use their established technical knowledge, consultation skills and primary care experience to improve the safe, effective and cost-conscious use of medicines across GP practices, care homes and other community settings.

The role is predominantly patient-facing and operational. It includes medicines reconciliation, repeat-prescribing support, high-risk medicine monitoring, patient safety searches, audit and quality improvement, medicines waste reduction, and practical support to help patients use their medicines effectively. The post holder will manage an agreed caseload and work programme with a high degree of day-to-day autonomy, while recognising professional limits and escalating clinical decisions appropriately.

Work within GPhC standards, organisational policies, agreed standard operating procedures and the limits of individual competence.

Work under appropriate clinical supervision to support the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines.

Undertake only those patient-facing and medicines-optimisation activities for which competence has been demonstrated and documented.

Refer prescribing decisions, diagnosis, clinical assessment, complex medication review and other matters outside scope to a clinical pharmacist, GP or other appropriate clinician.

Provide day-to-day peer support and may coordinate delegated workstreams, but the role carries no formal line-management responsibility unless this is separately agreed and documented.

Maintain accurate, timely and contemporaneous records in the relevant clinical system, including actions taken, advice provided and referrals or escalations made.

Hold structured, person-centred conversations with patients, carers and families to support effective and safe medicines use, shared decision-making and adherence.

Provide practical medicines support within competence, including inhaler technique, medicines administration, compliance aids, ordering arrangements and signposting to relevant services.

Identify medicines-related problems, side effects, adherence concerns, safeguarding issues or deterioration, and escalate promptly using agreed clinical pathways.

Support patients to understand changes to medicines following discharge, outpatient appointments or other transitions of care.

Provide relevant public health and lifestyle advice within competence, with particular attention to access needs and health inequalities.

Undertake medicines reconciliation from discharge summaries, clinic letters and other reliable sources in line with local protocols, resolving discrepancies or referring them to an appropriate clinician.

Support reconciliation and medicines synchronisation for new care home residents and patients moving between care settings.

Liaise with community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, care homes, specialist services and patients to obtain information and ensure continuity of supply.

Prioritise urgent or high-risk discrepancies and maintain a clear audit trail of interventions and outcomes.

Support safe, efficient repeat-prescribing workflows, including triage of routine requests, alignment of medicines and referral of clinically complex queries.

Undertake agreed searches and monitoring processes for high-risk medicines, shared-care medicines and patients requiring follow-up, escalating overdue or abnormal results appropriately.

Support the implementation and consistent use of the Electronic Prescription Service and other digital medicines systems.

Help practices improve ordering, return and disposal processes and reduce avoidable medicines waste.

Support implementation of local and national prescribing guidance, formulary decisions and medicines-optimisation initiatives.

Take delegated ownership of defined medicines-optimisation workstreams and contribute to improving systems across practices, reporting progress, risks and recommendations to the Lead Pharmacy Technician.

Contribute to appropriate switching programmes, recalls and medication safety work only within agreed protocols and with suitable clinical oversight.

Undertake patient safety searches, clinical audits and data collection, for example relating to antimicrobial stewardship, high-risk medicines, monitoring, polypharmacy or prescribing indicators.

Support delivery of medicines-optimisation incentive schemes, Quality and Outcomes Framework activity, enhanced services and local PCN priorities.

Identify and report medication incidents, near misses, risks and system weaknesses; contribute to investigation, learning and improvement actions.

Use prescribing and service data to identify variation, monitor outcomes and recommend practical improvements to the Lead Pharmacy Technician and clinical team.

Contribute to the development, review and implementation of standard operating procedures and safe systems of work.

Work closely with clinical pharmacists, GPs, nurses, pharmacy technicians, practice teams and other PCN professionals to co-ordinate care and manage workload safely.

Develop effective links across primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, mental health, social care, care homes and voluntary services.

Participate in relevant practice, PCN and multidisciplinary meetings and communicate clearly about actions, risks and outcomes.

Support integration of the pharmacy team across organisations and contribute to a consistent, equitable service for patients across PCN practices.

Provide day-to-day advice, coaching and training to practice staff within own area of competence; support induction or peer development of less experienced colleagues when requested.

Maintain GPhC registration, continuing professional development and a portfolio of competence relevant to primary care practice.

Participate in clinical supervision, appraisal, objective setting and an agreed personal development plan.

Complete mandatory and statutory training and undertake further development required for enhanced or locally commissioned services.

Keep up to date with medicines legislation, professional guidance, evidence, local formularies and relevant NHS policy.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

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

Headcorn Surgery

Address

Greensand Health Centre

Heath Road

Linton

MAIDSTONE

Kent

ME17 4NU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trusts values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

Person Specification

Education /Qualification

Essential

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
• Evidence of active CPD portfolio
• Relevant Post graduate training

Desirable

• Membership of the British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT)
• Training in appraisal/supervision
• Post graduate qualification in specialist area at a masters or equivalent level in specialist field

Experience

Essential

• Appropriate clinical experience post registration (including experience of working in rehabilitation at Senior level)
• Experience as an OT in at least two of the following areas: People with conditions affecting physical function, cognition, againg
• Being involved with assessment and implementation of minor and major adaptations to a persons home on the grounds of disability
• General rehabilitation and falls management
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of supervising staff and / or students
• NHS experience

Desirable

• Experience of research and clinical audit
• Experience of working with social services
• Experience in setting up and running activity based group programme

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies
• Ability to apply core Occupational Therapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centred, goal setting approach
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning
• Advanced communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
• Skills in supervision and appraisal of assistants, junior therapists & students
• Presentation skills appropriate for teaching of junior staff, students & peers within an in-service training setting
• Computer literacy - Working knowledge of MS Office applications Personal and professional responsibility
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions and applicable rehabilitation
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant NICE and RCOT clinical guidelines
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence-based practice associated with people with physical disabilities
• Knowledge of recent national policies and legislation relating to health and social care provision

Other

Essential

• Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Able to work both independently, and with direct and indirect supervision.
• Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
• Car Driver unless covered by Equality Act 2010
• Willingness to work flexibly at a variety of locations across the division/local area
• Able to be organized, prioritise and manage own time.
• Able to accept advice and feedback and to act upon this

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

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

St Peters Ward, Hemel Hempstead Hospital,

Hillfield Road

Hemel Hempstead

HP2 4AD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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