Practice Nurse

Job summary
We are looking to recruit a caring and motivated Practice Nurse who is committed to patient care and willing to further develop our dedicated nursing team. We are ideally looking for a Nurse with a very strong background in Diabetes care and General Practice Nursing.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with our other Practice Nurses and HCA to treat our patients, maintain systems including infection control to meet CQC requirements and influence and implement policy and change in the Practice.

This is a part-time position of 34 hours per week, across four days. Salary is competitive, depending on experience, with access to NHS pension scheme.

Main duties of the job
As part of our nursing team you will be required to adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice

• Provide nursing advice and be a resource of best practice for the team
• Assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate clinical work carried out to ensure effective care delivery in partnership with patients/carers. Promote and advise on healthy lifestyles
• Treatment room duties in line with competency e.g Suture/clip removal, Basic & complex wound care, ECG, Phlebotomy, Urinalysis
• Vaccination under patient group directions and ordering of vaccines, ensuring correct storage
• Monitoring and support of the management of patients with long-term conditions/chronic diseases, with a holistic patient centred approach
• Assist with cervical screening programme
• Administer prescribed drug therapy, ensure safe custody of drugs
• Assist with Warfarin monitoring
• Assist in provision of minor surgery, coil and implant fittings
• Assist with co-ordination of Infection Control policy and audit
• Training and supervision of junior nursing staff
• Continue education/development to benefit service delivery and meet educational requirements
• Ensure confidentiality at all times
• Administer travel vaccines and offer holistic travel advice
• Work with nursing team to ensure clinical areas meet a satisfactory infection control level and remain adequately stocked with consumables
• Other duties as reasonably required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibility, training and scale of the post

About us
Greystone House Surgery is a modern friendly Practice in Redhill, representing one of the three sites which make up The House Partnership between Greystone House Surgery in Redhill, The Moat House Surgery in Merstham, and Caterham Valley Medical Practice in Caterham.

We are a forward thinking, well organized training practice with a high reputation for quality and standards. We encourage and support the personal development of all our staff and are keen to ensure the right person joins our friendly team.

- FourteenPartners across the whole Partnership (5 based at Redhill)
- Purpose built practice
- GMS, 16,000 patients (39,000 across the two site Partnership)
- Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Pharmacists
- Training Practice for Registrars, Foundation Yr 2 GPs, Physician Assistants, Medical students & Nurses
- EMIS Web
- Docman
- Abtrace
- Consistently high QOF achievement
- Member of DHC GP Federation

Job responsibilities
Practice Nurse
Grade: A **ccording to experience**
Accountable to: **GP Partners, reporting to Practice Manager**

JOB PURPOSE
To promote the mental, physical and emotional health of the Practice population
To assess the health needs of the Practice population
To provide and maintain a high standard of care for the Practice population
To be an effective member of the Primary Healthcare Team and to link with other organisations and disciplines in the development of services

DIMENSIONS
Service development
Clinical Practice development
Clinical practice

1. Service development
To work collaboratively with other members of the nursing team to influence and implement policy and change in the Practice
To maintain an awareness of changing services needs within the scope of services in Primary Care, the Trust and Social Services

2. Management
To be responsible for the effective use of resources within the sphere of responsibility
To ensure the maintenance of accurate and up to date manual and electronic records, as well as collecting and recording activity monitoring data, care aims and other contractual requirements

3. Clinical
To adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice
To further develop practice through continuing education which will benefit service delivery and meet educational requirements
To provide nursing advice and to be a resource of best practice for the team
To assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate clinical work carried out to ensure effective care delivery in the partnership with clients and families/carers
To promote and advise on healthy lifestyles
To provide treatment room duties in line with competency e.g. Suture/clip removal, Basic & complex wound care, ECG. Phlebotomy, Urinalysis
To give vaccination as appropriate under patient group directions and to be responsible for the ordering of vaccines and their correct storage
To assist with monitoring and support of the management of patients with long-term conditions / to chronic diseases, using a holistic patient centred approach
To assist with the cervical screening programme
To administer prescribed drug therapy and ensure safe custody of drugs
To assist with Warfarin monitoring
To assist in the provision of minor surgery, coil and implant fittings
To assist with the co-ordination of Infection Control policy and audit.
To Chaperone patients when required
To provide training and supervision to junior members of nursing staff
To ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to patients and information obtained during the course of employment
To participate in the Practice/Trust/s staff development and performance management and supervision systems

OTHER DUTIES
To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibility and scale of the post
To have responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and others in the working environment, to follow safe working practice and to comply at all times with the Trust/Practice health and safety policy and procedures.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NMC Registration

Experience
Desirable

• Complex Woundcare
• Immunisations
• Diabetes care
• Prescribing - not essential
• Respiratory care
• Phlebotomy

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.