Practice Nurse Manager
Job Description
Job summary
We are looking for a proactive and forward-thinking Practice Nurse Manager to support and enhance our team of nurses and HCAs. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team, and will be supported by the GP partners and practice management team to ensure that we are able to deliver outstanding care to our patients.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve management of our nursing team, leading the team, responding to changes in nursing practice.
Clinical responsibilities will include:
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes which promote health and well being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well being.
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patient with a known long term condition
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long term condition as appropriate.
- Lead on wound care management, participate in immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
- Lead on Nursing staff appraisals, day to day management of the nursing team.
- Lead on infection control.
About us
We are a small and friendly GP surgery, based on the outskirts of Chester city centre. We provide care for 8,000 patients and are led by 4 supportive GP partners. Our practice team also includes 2 salaried GPs, 3 ANPs, 1 additional Practice Nurse, 3 HCAs, physiotherapist, dietitian, child and adult mental health practitioners, care co-ordinator, and a large administration team.
We provide a supportive working environment, with a range of team meetings and staff-centred training afternoons. We are a forward-thinking practice, and encourage all members of our team to play a role in our continuous improvement.
Job responsibilities
Management responsibilities
- Enable the nursing team to work effectively and provide a high quality service to patients and to work effectively with other agencies.
- Identify the workforce that is required to provide services to meet the needs of the patient population and negotiate with the practice management team for this workforce
- Monitor and advise on the effective use of physical and financial resources by the practice nursing team
- Enable the practice nursing team to apply and improve clinical governance and risk management systems
- Lead and monitor the development and implementation of policies, standards and guidelines across the practice nursing team
- Analyse, interpret and report data on health and well-being, related needs and service use
- Allocate, co-ordinate, monitor and assess the work of the nursing team and individuals
- Recruit and select staff to meet the health and well-being needs of the practice population
- Supervise and assess staff performance and development
- Offer and provide clinical supervision to other members of the practice nursing team and act as a clinical ''expert''
Clinical responsibilities:
- Identify, assess and diagnose patients with complex health needs across the practice population
- Lead the introduction and use of technical and specialist nursing treatments for patients with complex healthcare needs
- Prescribe products to meet the needs of patients within the practice population
- Lead and develop programmes to improve health and well-being and meet the specific needs of communities, groups and individuals
- Work with others to change policies and improve health and well-being and reduce inequalities
- Lead the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based practice to improve the services offered by the practice nursing team
- Lead the team in quality assurance, development and clinical governance.
- Work with other members of the practice team in the implementation of specific aspects of the NSFs.
- Management of chronic disease
- Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals
- Therapeutic monitoring
- Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments, using an holistic patient-centred approach
- Recognising abnormalities
- Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
- Wound care and management
- Assessing routine wounds including trauma
- Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)
- Patient health checks
- Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified
- Identifying health trends and public health issues and working with the team and others to combat these.
- Risk assessment:
- Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (eg drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)
Health screening
- Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate and working with the patient in deciding on management plans
- Considering the issues in the light of the practice population.
- Travel health
- Provision of specialist and evidence based support to the team
- Working with public health initiatives, ensuring the work of the team is up to date.
- Immunisation (adult and child)
- Working with public health initiatives, ensuring the work of the team is up to date.
- Leading the team in achieving the immunisation guidelines and targets.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 3+ years of primary care nursing experience
- Knowledge of diabetes management
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing
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
HANDBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
Address
Greenway Street
Chester
CH4 7JS
