Practice Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Nursing team at The Chorley Surgery.

We are looking torecruit an enthusiastic, reliable, highly motived Practice Nurse to join our existing team.

As our chosen Practice Nurse it is essential, to have recent experience within Primary Care, be motivated, energised, enthusiastic and relish a challenge. You must be registered with the NMC and have experience of dealing with long term condition management and QOF. Applicants with an interest in Respiratory Management are encouraged to apply.

We are a forward thinking, friendly practice based in the centre of Chorley.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about patient care and who has excellent nursing skills.

This post is 24 hours a week. Salary will depend on qualifications and experience. NHS pension and 6 weeks paid holiday arealso offered.

To work collaboratively with the General Practice Team to meet the needs of our patients, to include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education.

We are a forward thinking, friendly practice based in the centre of Chorley.

Our list size is just over 10,000 and we have a diverse clinical team that helps serve the needs of our patients. These include, GPs, ANPs, Practice Nurses, Nursing Associate, Health Care Assistant, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician,Physiotherapist and Mental Health Worker. We also have a very supportive back office team.

We offer an environment where employee's feel supportive as well as valued.

Duties and Responsibilities of Post

Clinical Practice:

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition as appropriate
• Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions, including non-drug-based treatment methods using a management plan, and in line with national and local policies and practice needs
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for contraception/HRT and cervical cytology consultations
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
• Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad
• Home Visits where required
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice
• Management of monitoring bloods for long term condition and NHS Health Checks. I.e HBA1C and Cholesterol

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

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 workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice
• Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
• Participate in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis)
• Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
• Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
• Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate

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
• Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment,…