Practice Nurse

Join our team: Exciting primary care nursing role focusing on long-term condition management in Bracknell.

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If you're available Monday through Friday evenings starting 18:30 & nd Saturdays from 09:00-17:00 this is your chance to make a difference!

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Role Summary

As a practice nurse in our extended service in Bracknell, your primary responsibility is to provide high-quality nursing services to the entitled patient population. In addition, you will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary practice team to ensure that patients receive comprehensive and coordinated care.

Your role will involve delivering care within your scope of practice, which includes several clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, and well women and well man clinics. Additionally, you will support the management team in reviewing clinical policy and procedures to maintain the highest standards of care.

Main duties of the job

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patient's health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required by clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Provide wound care to patients.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, deliver patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records.
• Ensure Stomed codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters following local and national policies.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
• Maintaining smears results in logs.
• Manage emergency drug kit.

Health and Safety

Every employee should take reasonable care for the Health and Safety of themselves and others, including using protective clothing and cooperation with EBPC in meeting its responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work legislation.

In addition, the post holder must be aware of individual responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report, as necessary, any untoward accident, incident or potentially hazardous environment.

EBPC's responsibility is to ensure that staff can work in a safe and conducive working environment.

Responsibilities regarding Health and Safety and staff welfare legislation and best practice are fulfilled throughout their area of responsibility.

In addition, Risk Assessments will be conducted as needed.

Infection Prevention and Control

You will be expected to cooperate with colleagues, contractors, and other healthcare providers involved in patient care directly or indirectly so far as necessary to enable EBPC to meet its obligations under the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

Under Section 11 of the Children Act (2004) and Department of Health guidance 'No secrets' (2000). EBPC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children, Young People and Adults.

All staff working with these groups are expected to share a commitment to this.

To ensure the safety of children, young people, and adults, you must report concerns promptly, according to the agreed policy and procedures.

The Public Protection Procedures will be followed if your conduct regarding safeguarding children, young people or adults is deemed concerning, and the Disciplinary Procedure will be implemented if necessary.

Equality and Diversity

EBPC is committed to the fair treatment of all people, regardless of their gender, race, colour, ethnicity, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, mental health needs, age, domestic circumstances, social class, sexuality, beliefs, political allegiance or trade union.

Confidentiality

The post holder must ensure that personal information for patients, members of staff and all other individuals are kept secure and confidential at all times in compliance with the Data Protection Legislation.

This job description outlines the post's roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is not intended to detail all specific tasks.

Benefits

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On site parking
• Sick pay

Licence/Certification

• NMC (required)
• United Kingdom (required)

Person Specification Personal Qualities

• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
• Able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

General Skills

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Competent in the use of patient record management systems: EMIS
• Competent in Document Management systems: Docman
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and ability to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Leadership and management skills as part of a general practice nursing team with delegated accountability and responsibility for patient care
• Evidence, research and development - has an enquiring approach to practice to ensure the best quality care is offered within any service constraints.

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent experience
• Registered Nurse (NMC)
• Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence in the last two years
• Postgraduate diploma or degree (Primary Care)
• NMC's Academic Assessors, Practice Supervisors and Practice Assessors accreditations

Experience

• Immunisations (flu, routine, childhood, B12, travel)
• Wound Care / Treatment of minor injuries / Removal of sutures & staples
• Women's health (Cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
• Dressings
• Diabetes review
• Cardiovascular disease primary prevention
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Understanding of Extended brief interventions (NICE guidelines)
• Cytology certificates
• Chaperone procedure
• Mental Health
• ECGsVenepuncture
• New patient medicals
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Asthma
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy

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.