PCN Nursing AssociateNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PCN Nursing Associate to join our friendly and supportive practice team. Chastleton is a long-established, successful training practice with a list size of 10500 patients, set just outside of Durham city. You will be joining us at an exciting time as we focus on adapting to the current changes within the NHS to provide the highest possible standard of holistic patient care.

Main duties of the job

The PCN Nursing Associate works alongside a team within general practice and within the Primary Care Network. The post-holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, working as and when required in each organisation and across the network. The principal task is to support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care of patients.

Please see the attached job description and person specification attached for further details.

Job description

The following are the core responsibilities of the PCN Nursing Associate in delivering health services. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• Deliver high quality, compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional dependent on PCN) with a focus on promoting good health and independence
• Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals
• Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
• Work as part of the PCNs MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
• Improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity
• Contribute to the delivery of integrated care
• Work with the PCN MDT to ensure the delivery of Nursing Associate duties complements the existing workforce
• Work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace and enable the Nursing Associate to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present
• Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required
• Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
• Develop relationships across the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes
• Perform and record clinical observations, including appropriate coding, such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse
• After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the PCN in line with the competencies of the role
• Promote the health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
• Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients
• Provide support during minor operations as required
• Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues across the PCN, attending and contributing to meetings as required
• Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children
• Process pathology results as required
• Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
• Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
• Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
• Contribute towards public health and screening programmes, including immunisations and vaccinations, including the childhood immunisation programme
• Support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery
• Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
• Be an integral part of the general practice team, working in each practice and across the PCN, as well as supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Recognise boundaries of own practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems
• Provide supervision to student Nurse Associates
• Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN
• Support in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events
• Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
• There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

About us

Chastleton Medical Group is a well established, forward thinking GP practice serving approximately 10,500 patients in the heart of Durham City. We are a paperless SystmOne practice with an excellent reputation for patient care, strong performance and a supportive team culture.