Nurse Associate

St John's Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Associate to join our enthusiastic and supportive Practice Team. The successful candidate must be organised, motivated and caring to ensure the highest levels of care are delivered to our patient population through patient assessments, diagnosis and clinical management.

St John's Medical Centre is a large, fast paced GP surgery located in Grantham, offering excellent transport links with easy assess to the A1 and on the mainline for London. Two notable Grammar schools in Grantham are Kesteven and Grantham Girls School and The Kings School. We currently have circa 13,000 patients registered at the Surgery and retained our 'Good' rating in our latest CQC Regulatory Review.

The role is a full time role, working hours to be discussed. Pay is dependant on experience.

To be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practicesmultidisciplinary team who provide care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The Nurse Associate will be responsible for a numberof clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well woman and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

St John's Medical Centre is a large, well established Practice with circa 13,000 patients registered. We are a Training Practice and regularly welcome GP Registrars, Nursing Placements and Work experience from Colleges/ Schools in the local area. In our last CQC Inspection we retained our 'Good' rating.

In working for the Practice, you can benefit from the following:

• Free Staff Parking
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement
• NHS Discounts at Retailers/ Restaurants
• Full training & support

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

• To liaise with the registered GP andother practice based staff in addition to all other providers and servicesutilising, where appropriate a multi-disciplinary approach.
• To implement and review individual care plans, self-management plans ensuring preventative measures are detailed and agree trigger thresholds to contact the surgery.
• Carrying out home-visits to patientswhere an urgent clinical need has been identified including those escalated byEMAS or a member of the Neighbourhood Team.
• Liaise with primary, secondary and specialist care services as required.
• Liaise with GPs,Neighbourhood Team, patients and their carers.
• Maintain accurate and up to date records of patients consultations using relevant software e.g Systm One.
• Complete relevant health checks inline with patient needs.
• The ability to work alone- whenundertaking home visits/ work in the community.
• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
• Implement and evaluate individualtreatment plans for chronic disease patients.
• Identify, manage and support patient sat risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on patients health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical-based evidence, NICE and theNSF.
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppleretc.) to patients.
• Undertake clinical tasks including venepuncture.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process pathology results as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics,delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure read codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Develop, implement and embed wellwoman clinics.
• Develop, implement and embed well manclinics.
• Chaperone patients where necessary.
• Assist GPs with minor surgery when required.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• Implement vaccination programmes foradults.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice.)
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• Share clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and that the task is within the scope of practice of the individual.)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately.

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of working as a Nurse Associate.
• Experience of chronic disease management.

• NMC Registration as a Nurse Associate
• Nurse Associate Foundation Degree
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or…