Job Description

Job Summary:

To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team working within the practice.

Hours: Saturday 9am-2pm

SCOPE OF THE JOB:

The practice nurse will perform tasks prescribed and delegated by:

GP Partners, working unsupervised to Patient Group Directions

Work to agreed protocols, within an evidence base and within defined competencies.

The practice nurse will assess patients and plan, implement and review treatment programmes for nurse led care

KEY RELATIONSHIPS/CONTACTS

Internal

:

GPs Practice Paramedic Nurse Manager Nursing Team Practice Manager Reception team Administration Team Social prescribing team Physiotherapy Community Midwife Pharmacist & Pharmacy Technician

External

:

Patients, carers, and relatives Practice suppliers (equipment, supplies and services)

DUTIES & Responsibilities

Patient Care

Venepuncture

Urine testing/analysis

Blood pressure monitoring (24 hr bp monitoring with training)

ECG

Height, weight measurement

Removal of sutures/Clips

Take pathology samples from patients for analysis (blood, sputum, urine etc)

Assessment, management, and treatment of conditions within competence and as delegated.

Assessment of wounds/Provision of wound care and delegation to trained HCA

Scalds and burns management

Minor injuries (cuts, dog bites)

Child immunisations

Flu immunisation children and adults

Pneumococcal immunisation

Shingles Immunisations

Vitamin B 12 injections

Provision of nebulizer treatment in the practice under PGD

Complete and support the QOF/QIPP activities

Men and Women's health/lifestyle advice - NHS Health Checks

Support and advice for patients in managing their own disease

Cervical cytology

Swabs

Chaperoning

Supervision and delegation to the HCA

Support and supervision to the practice phlebotomist

Record Keeping & Administration

Make accurate and contemporaneous records of all patient encounters in accordance with practice records, protocols, and coding protocols

Accurately label and document patient samples and submit for collection and analysis

Contribute to nursing team record keeping (clinical, administrative, health and safety related records)

Maintain skills in using patient appointment system

Use of System 1

Maintaining a Safe Clinical Environment

General:

The practice nurse will be aware of and comply with the practice's health and safety policy. This will include: -

Minimising risk to self and others in the workplace

Identifying and reporting hazards/risks and contributing to control measures

Adhering to all relevant policies including infection control and cold chain

Contributing to keeping the working area and patient areas tidy and free from hazards

Using protective equipment and clothing provided and in accordance with the practice's policy

Handling specimens and clinical waste/sharps in accordance with practice policy

Applying correctly spill control and decontamination policies

Ensuring sufficient supplies of all cleansing and infection control materials

Attending regular health and safety training

Specific:

Record fridge temperatures, clean fridges, promptly report temperature variations from standard

Rotate stock according to date, maintain appropriate records and discard out of date stock in accordance with practice protocol

Prepare clinical areas between patients in accordance with infection control procedures including cleaning surfaces and equipment

Dispose of all clinical waste/sharps in accordance with the practice's infection control protocol

Clean/maintain all equipment in accordance with infection control and equipment maintenance policies

Take action to manage spills or decontamination affected areas

Supplies Management:

Check stock in all clinical rooms

Order replacement stock and restock clinical rooms

Order vaccines to maintain stock levels and store according to practice cold chain and storage policies

Maintain accurate stock records, including liaison with Practice Manager by providing order confirmations for invoice checking

Order most economic supplies available and use with economy

Order and maintain stock of health information leaflets and keep displays up to date

Equipment Maintenance and Calibration:

Clean and disinfect some items of equipment and keep a record

Contribute to care and maintenance of equipment

Organise repair and regular maintenance and calibration of equipment, including equipment maintenance/checking/calibration log

Quality:

Provide services to the practice's patient population to the highest possible standard

Work to agreed standards, monitor and maintain the standard of care offered

Take action if standards are not met (self or others)

Contribute to clinical governance activities/clinical audit to ensure continual improvement of service delivery

Contribute to complaints responses/reviews, significant event, peer review and other shared learning activities

Communication:

Advise patients of the practice nurse role, its extent, and limits

Appropriately advise and refer on patients if they require the services of a GP or other clinical team member

Communicate effectively, promptly, and appropriately with patients and team members

Modify method of communication with patients to suit the situation, recognise problems/barriers and act or seek help at an early stage when they arise

Communicate risk to patients and ensure proper consent gained where appropriate

Contribute to practice meetings

Contribution to the implementation of services:

Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work

Participate in audit where appropriate

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The practice nurse will: -

Comply with NMC Code of Conduct and keep registration up to date, documented and checked in the practice on an annual basis

Behave as a positive role model

Prioritise own work and work effectively with others to prioritise team and practice workload

Undertake training needed to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities

Maintain awareness of current evidence-based approaches to patient care and update practice accordingly and in consultation with the team

Attend and contribute to in-house training events

Take responsibility for own development, including maintenance of a personal development plan and record of learning, clinical supervision, staff appraisals, revalidation, giving and receiving feedback, performance, management with the support and supervision of qualified staff

Undertake regular mandatory training (child protection, vulnerable adults, basic life support, moving and handling etc)

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their careers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons, in accordance with practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety

The practice nurse will adhere to infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to): -

Awareness of national standard of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/contractual/professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimen's process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

Management and maintenance of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the practice including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff

Responsible for hand hygiene across the practice

Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes

Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate

Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial/corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training

Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection

Spillage control procedures, management and training

Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance

Maintenance of sterile environments

Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality & Diversity

The practice nurse will comply with the practices equality and diversity policy including: -

Recognising the rights of patients, carers, relatives and colleagues and respecting their needs, beliefs, privacy and dignity.

Not discriminating against patients, carers, relatives or colleagues on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics in the equality act 2010 (or its amendments or later legislation)

Other Duties

The practice nurse may, from time to time, be asked to undertake other reasonable duties, with appropriate training. It is important that all members of staff are prepared to undertake additional or relinquish current duties to maintain service delivery to patients. It is expected that requests from the Nurse Manager /Partners/Practice Manager will not be unreasonably refused

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From 21.30 per hour

Expected hours: 5 per week

Benefits:

Company events Employee discount Employee mentoring programme Free flu jabs Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking
Schedule:

Weekends only
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 30/06/2025