Practice Nurse Lead (Advanced Nurse Practitioner)

Medical Staffing is delighted to offer a great opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced Practice Nurse who wishes to develop their career within an exceptional primary care environment.

Why Medical Staffing:

●        Flexibility – Part-time [profession] jobs tailored around you.

●        Revalidation - Access to appraisals and revalidation services.

●        Referral bonus - Bonuses up to £250* for recommending your friends.

●        Training – Access to quality voluntary training services.

●        Support – Dedicated recruitment team to support you.

●        NHS and private - Work across the NHS and private sector.

​Principle Duties and Responsibilities

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Leadership

• Leading a small team of nurses within the larger clinical team in the practice

• Guide your team towards clinical visions of the practice

• Inspire clinical care levels that surpass the practice CQC outstanding levels

• Develop clinical pathways that integrate within the wider practice systems

• Utilise the skills and knowledge of your whole team

• Provide a supportive environment for your team to develop

• Deliverance of practice targets

Clinical Care

• Patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment

• Nursing interventions based on evidence based practice

• On-going assessment, monitoring and evaluation

• Patient education, planning and referral to other sources of care within their scope of practice

• To participate in the audit process, evaluating the service, implementing actionplans and change of practice as necessary

• To organise the planning and implementation of care for patients requiring practice nurse input

• To encourage a healthy lifestyle behaviour as part of the health promotion strategy

• To work in collaboration with other colleagues and as a member of the multidisciplinary team

• To maintain accurate and complete records on SystmOne

• To provide a service that is evidence based and aims to improve the quality of life

• To improve the standards of care by promoting nursing research and developing nursing expertise

• To evaluate the effectiveness of education programmes on an on-going basis

• Able to participate in audit and audit own services and outcomes for patients

• To refer to secondary care as necessary

Professional Accountability

• Actively participates in the management of the clinical decisions for which they are personally accountable

• Professionally accountable to the Partners

Educational

• The setting of realistic educational and treatment goals within your scope of practice

• The assessment and evaluation of learning abilities of patients

• To educate people with LTC’s so that they can manage their health and enable them to learn to live a full active and healthy life

• Involve other relevant people where appropriate in the teaching process

• To act as a resource person for your team

• To respond to the education needs of Practice staff and students

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Risk Management

·         Demonstrate clear understanding of risk including own professional accountability and responsibility, how to minimise risks in order to deliver safe and effective healthcare.

·         Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards, and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

·         Undertake mandatory and statutory training.

·         Apply infection control measures according to guidelines.

Communication

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·         Ensure effective communications with patients especially in providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there may be significant barriers.

·         Communicate effectively with colleagues, both within the organisation and external agencies to ensure gold standard patient care.

Delivering a quality service

·         To promote a culture of openness in line with the Lea Vale integrated governance framework

·         Co-operate with all comments or complaints received and ensure they are dealt with in accordance with the appropriate policies and guidelines

·         Ensure patients’ rights and dignity is maintained at all times and appropriate consent is obtained prior to care delivery.

General - The post holder will:

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Act always in a manner which is consistent with:

·         The NMC competency framework & Code of Conduct

·         The health, safety and security regulations of Lea Vale

·         The smooth running of services

·         The promotion of good patient and colleague relations

·         Complying at all times with any regulations issued by the practice, especially those governing health and safety at work and to ensure that any defects that may affect safety at work, are brought to the attention of the Partners

·         Undertake any other duties at the request of the Partners, which are commensurate with the role of Practice Nurse Lead and as necessary undertake training in line with the development of this position.

·         Ensure that all functions are carried out in a friendly, helpful and professional manner and with due regard for the public image of Lea Vale Medical Group and the reputation of the NHS

·         Generate a strong sense of multi-disciplinary team commitment and a readiness to support others

·         To be accountable for own decisions and actions

This job description reflects the present requirements and objectives of the post as in July 2021 and does not form part of your contract of employment.As the duties of the post change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and will be subject to amendment, in consultation with the post-holder.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

·         Demonstrate leadership behaviour in a variety of settings

·         Evidence of innovation in practice

·         Management of long term conditions

• Ability to work to challenging timescales and produce effective results

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

• Able to inspire and influence others

• Articulate, with high levels of emotional intelligence

• Appreciate the need of culturally diverse and vulnerable patient groups

• Flexible and able to adapt to challenging circumstances

• IT literate, with an ability to analyse clinical date

• Demonstrate high levels of self-awareness i.e. strengths and weaknesses, personal qualities and skills

Desirable

·         Prescriber

·         Minor Illness qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in leadership role

• Leading meetings and/or projects

• Participation in research and audits and disseminating evidence-based practice

·         Autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals

·         Experience of clinical governance management

Desirable

• Primary care experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse

• Advanced nurse practitioner

• Independent nurse prescriber or willingness to work towards

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).

How to apply:

If you’re interested in working with Medical Staffing, apply now and we’ll be in contact shortly to discuss more about the job opportunities we have available.

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