Practice Nurse
Job Description
Job summary
A Practice Nurse plays a vital role in delivering high-quality patient care in a GP surgery. They support the primary care team in providing preventative care, treatment, and health education while working within agreed protocols and guidelines. The role requires clinical expertise, patient engagement, and collaboration with GPs, healthcare assistants, and other healthcare professionals.
Main duties of the job
About us
The Hill Surgery was established in October 2023 through the merger of two longstanding local practices, Beaconsfield Road Surgery and Harold Road Surgery. Our aim is to provide high-quality, patient-centered care, while integrating the strengths and expertise of both surgeries. We are committed to innovation, accessibility, and continuity of care for our patients, ensuring a modern and responsive approach to healthcare in our community.
They can expect to be treated with dignity and respect and will not be discriminated against on any grounds. Patients have a responsibility to treat other patients and our staff with dignity and respect.
Staff have the right to be treated fairly in recruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to work in an environment where diversity is valued and equality of opportunity is promoted. Staff will not be discriminated against on any grounds. Staff have a responsibility to ensure that they treat our patients and their colleagues with dignity and respect.
Our mission statement
We provide care for our patients, that we would want for ourselves.
Ethos
Personal, professional and individualised care
Philosophy
We work with the patients to empower them to take control and to manage their own health care.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates 460-357BC
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of a practice nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health to implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients that promote health and well-being and ensure the appropriate maintenance and use of chronic disease registers. referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required to maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation To ensure read codes are used effectively by all members of the nursing team
To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence.
To oversee the provision of wound care services to patients To co-ordinate the provision of travel medicine services
To request pathology services as necessary
To implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
Carry out the following procedures
Wound care including compression dressings
Removal of sutures, staples
ECG's
Dopplers both manual and automatic
Venepuncture
spirometry
Ear syringe
LTC reviews Diabetic, COPD, Asthma, etc
record accurate notes and use the correct templates provided
Child immunisations
Travel vaccinations
Family planning including Pill checks
Cervical smears
Competent use of EMIS and Docman
Clear polite manner
Work well as part of a team and autonomously
Punctual and committed
sensitive and empathetic in difficult situations
Flexibility to work outside core hours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Person specification Practice Nurse
- Qualifications Essential
- Registered nurse
- Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease Management)
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience of leading a nursing team in a primary care environment
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Experience of working autonomously
- Experience of infection prevention and control measures
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- New patient medicals
- Chaperone procedure
- Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
- Womens health (cervical cytology, contraception, etc.)
- Understand the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
- Understanding of infection prevention and control measures
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
- Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Occupational health clearance
- Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation
Desirable
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- EMIS user skills
- Effective time management (planning and organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
- Experience with clinical risk management
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and co-operative
- Motivated, forward thinker
- Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilise resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
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).
Employer details
Employer name
The Hill Surgery
Address
The Hill Surgery,
164 Harold Road
Hastings
East Sussex
tn355NH
