Practice Nurse; Experienced

Job summary

Midlands Medical Partnership (MMP) is a Birmingham super-partnership currently caring for 72,000 Birmingham Cross-City CCG patients across North and South Birmingham operating out of 11 sites. The partnership was established in April 2009 and continues to grow as a single integrated primary care provider, alongside collaborative working with other similar organisations in our region as part of its strategic forward view.

To provide a high standard of nursing care, health education, screening and immunisation, working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice team on a fixed term contract for 6 months to the South Sites mainly with some travel to the North.

• Providing assessment screening and treatment services and health education advice
• Organise and coordinate the provision of nursing services for the surgery
• Provide nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or independently to agreed protocols
• Provide general and specific health screenings to the surgery patients (within agreed protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary
• Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as necessary

The vision behind the creation of MMP is to improve and develop all that is excellent about traditional GP services local GPs leading and working in local surgeries to provide long-term doctor/patient relationships based on the established values of trust and personalised care, whilst at the same time being part of a larger, more corporate business structure, allowing our practices and patients to benefit from the resources of a larger organisation, enabling us to improve the range and quality of patient services, improve access and patient responsiveness and improve learning across our organisation.

MMPs core purpose is to work within a culture of quality to constantly improve the care and service we give our patients.

This dynamic partnership with a team of over 250 clinicians and staff is managed by a single executive board, with centralised organisational functions, strong leadership and clinical governance structures. The ambition and vision of the partnership is to provide large scale, integrated, multi-speciality care for its patients. Most of our sites are training practices and training in areas of special interest is greatly supported.

• Supplies and equipment – Treatment room and other areas
• In participation with the Site Lead officer, ensure the maintenance of equipment and stock levels relating to patient care
• Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures
• Following appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and despatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc. perform any investigatory procedures requested by the GPs
• Administrative and professional responsibilities
• Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the surgery team
• Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients’ notes on the clinical computer systems as appropriate
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the surgery
• Take the lead in infection prevention and control in the surgery
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports
• Attend and participate in meetings as required
• Assist in the formation of practice philosophy, strategy and policy and develop appropriate protocols
• Maintain a notice board in the waiting room area designated for patient health care education
• Research
• Cooperate and participate as required in any research projects with in the surgery
• Liaison
• Maintain effective liaison with other agencies and staff concerned with patient care
• and with all other disciplines within the surgery, with regard to confidentiality
• Professional development
• Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development
• The post holder will participate…