Lead Practice Nurse

Key Areas of Responsibility Clinical

• 1. Work autonomously as a Senior Nurse within the practice, managing patients and delivering individualised direct patient care.
• 2. Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation, and diagnosis of patients within the agreed scope of your role. The clinical scope of your role will be reviewed at appraisal on an annual basis, based on the Core Capabilities Framework.
• 3. Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral of patients. This includes the management of patients with long term conditions and complex care.
• 4. Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including from the doctor team, nursing colleagues and to manage your caseload and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices
• 5. Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, safety huddles, patient reviews and team meetings
• 6. Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/ advice as per your agreed scope of practice, using agreed protocols of clinical practice and professional guidelines. This service may be provided within an urgent care primary care setting, or routine primary care setting, including in the community or home care settings.
• 7. Within scope of practice and clinical competence request and / or undertake diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations related to plans of care
• 8. Utilise scope of practice to undertake Non-Medical Prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group. Work within Guiseley and Yeadon Medical Practice's policy for Medicines Management
• 9. Utilise your advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality of primary care to provide specialist primary care advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment.
• 10. Provide a seamless, high-quality service from assessment through to diagnosis, treatment, and review, referring to other specialists in the community or secondary care as required. Provide guidance to staff, patients and their families and carers on pathway navigation
• 11. Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service.
• 12. Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients, and their relatives/carers, making reports and liaising as required with medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team both verbally and in writing.
• 13. Use professional judgement to act as an advocate for patients to ensure a patient focused approach to the delivery of care. Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management. Escalate any concerns via the practice management/nursing / professional structures/partnership as required
• 14. Report and raise concerns related to Safeguarding, accessing advice and support as required. Be conversant with Practice policies for safeguarding including the assessment of mental Capacity, and consideration of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) and the application of the principles of Prevent (counter terrorism awareness)
• 15. Ensure effective and accurate verbal or written handover of patients between healthcare professionals.
• 16. Ensure that high standards of all documentation are maintained, with accurate, complete and up-to-date information regarding patient care are kept in accordance with Practice and professional standards.
• 17. Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas. Identifying any skills or training gaps and escalating to the practice manager and partnership or addressing them if within your own team.
• 18. Undertake training to develop further advanced clinical practice roles required by the practice to provide a high standard of patient care.
• 20. Practice within the scope of professional registration

• 1. Provide highly visible and accessible professional leadership and demonstrate expert knowledge and standards of clinical practice in primary care
• 2. Promote interdisciplinary team and collaborative working practices
• 3. Meet regularly with team members as a team and on an individual basis as required to support their personal and professional development
• 4. Promote team working, build rapport and collaborative working practices within the multidisciplinary clinical and management team. Liaise with non-clinical personnel across the organisation and professional groups. Ensuring effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• 5. Act as a clinical role model demonstrating high standards of advanced clinical practice and provide support or advice to other staff when necessary
• 6. Lead and support the development of the role according to changing patients needs, service requirements and evidence base practice.
• 7. Lead and actively participate in practice/local projects, quality initiatives and statutory accreditation…