GP Practice NurseNHS

Job summary

Practice Nurse (Full time/almost full time - 30 to 37.5 hours)

Are you a caring and experienced Practice Nurse looking for a new opportunity in a friendly and supportive environment?

Paston Surgery is a close-knit GP practice in North Walsham, and we have an exciting opening for a Practice Nurse to join our friendly team. This position is approx. 30 to 37.5hours per week, and we are flexible about how those hours are arranged.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to work with a team that feels like family, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

Were looking for an NMC registered GP Practice Nurse who can bring experience, enthusiasm, and compassion to our team. In this role, you will need to be a team player and:

Help with Chronic Disease Clinics: Support patients with long-term conditions. Ideally to lead on one or more Long Term Conditions.

Provide General Treatment Room Care: Carry out usual practice nurse duties.

You will work as part of a close team, collaborating closely with our GPs, nurse colleagues, healthcare assistants, and administrative staff to ensure the practice runs smoothly. We believe in a true team approach you'll always have friendly colleagues ready to support you on a busy day or when facing a challenge.

We understand that flexibility is important, so we are open to discussing how you'd like to spread working hours across the week.

Job description

Job description

Nursing duties

• Provide nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and local requirements
• Appraise wounds and other minor injuries, administer dressings; refer to a practice doctor or the hospital as appropriate
• Take swabs, cervical smears
• Provide immunisations and injections to children and adults
• Assist with Chronic Disease Management using the principles of MECC to maximise encounters and minimise patient visits
• Take a lead in one or more chronic diseases
• Support the Nursing team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Monitor the blood pressure of patients and consider indications for referral back to the doctor
• Assist with ECGs and report the findings to the doctors
• Assist the phlebotomists with venepuncture
• Insert ring pessaries as directed by the doctor
• Assist with INR clinics, including patient dosing using INRstar when a suitable Health Care Assistant is not available

Chronic Disease Management

• Help maintain chronic disease registers
• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Lead in one or more Chronic Diseases
• Coronary heart disease (CHD)
• Hypertension
• Smoking cessation
• Diabetes
• Management of other "Best Practice" patient registers
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients

General duties

• Maintain high standards of nursing care to patients of the Practice, and to promote good health care
• Assist doctors during their surgeries e.g., chaperone, urgent electrocardiograph (ECG) etc.
• Be responsible for maintaining a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness in the nursing area and of the clinical equipment used
• Monitor and maintain adequate supplies of drugs, clinical items and equipment
• Monitor and maintain emergency drugs bag
• Appropriately recording all treatment undertaken in the patients record on the computer system
• Ensure templates and read codes are used effectively
• Ensure maximisation of QOF, Enhanced Services, IIF and other funding streams
• Obtain and make use of health promotion material in clinics and for display purposes
• Implement new and revised nursing procedures when necessary
• Attend meetings, courses and update days as required
• Use relevant websites for the purposes of supporting the nursing role and giving advice to patients
• Assist in the support of our HCAs
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
• Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
• Keep up to date with training needs, registration, and revalidation

Health Promotion

• Develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Discuss diet, alcohol, smoking, and other health problems with patients
• Family planning
• Travel advice
• Cervical cytology; including monitoring and review of the results
• Assist in different Health Checks

Managerial

• To work with the doctors and Practice Manager to achieve the best possible service to patients
• Ensure that the relevant requirements of the GMS Contract are implemented within the nursing department.
• Monitor, record usage and stock-take vaccines
• Discuss, implement and audit new nursing procedures
• Participate in audit and inspection as required by the GMS Contract, including cervical cytology
• Assist the doctors in the maintenance of relevant and accurate clinical histories
• Assist in overseeing/supervision of Health Care Assistants
• Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)

Communication

• Team player and attention to detail skills are essential
• Help and advise reception/PLT, and other non-clinical, staff on clinical matters
• Advise patients on the telephone
• Liaise with the other members of the primary care teams and primary care networks
• Liaise with clinicians in secondary and intermediate care

Secondary Responsibilities

• In addition to the primary responsibilities, the practice nurse may be requested to:
• Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments
• Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
• Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
• Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
• Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)

About us

About Paston Surgery

Paston Surgery is a well-established, family-friendly GP practice serving over 6,700 patients in North Walsham and the surrounding villages.

We are committed to high-quality patient care and continuous improvement. Paston Surgery is also proud to be a training practice. We regularly host GP medical students from the UEA Medical School and support the development of all our staff.