Practice Nurse

• Routine treatment room GP nurse duties
• Ability to deliver care, without direct supervision
• Competent in Medication Management
• Chronic disease management (desirable)
• Ability to follow the Nursing process-Assessment/Diagnosis/Planning/Implementation/Evaluation
• Maintaining the Patient's dignity and respect at all times

• Undertake appropriate management of long term conditions, screening programmes, immunisation programmes within their level of competency and with adequate and recognised training.
• Chronic disease management (desirable)
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with a patients healthcare.
• Perform home visits where appropriate.
• Responsibility for reviewing and acting on own sample results or those referred onto you from another nurse or associated healthcare professional, or referring to a more senior clinician when appropriate.
• Providing nursing treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or independently, meeting agreed protocols.
• Support and promote the development of team working to ensure a high standard of nursing care within the treatment area.
• Adhere and work to defined polices and protocols, including health and safety, equality and diversity, and confidentiality within the practice
• Assist in the ordering and maintaining of stock
• Be aware of national standards of infection control and good practice guidelines and active observation of current working practices across the practice ensuring that procedures are followed.
• Actively identifying, reporting and correction of health and safety hazards.
• Responsible for the safe use of all diagnostic and treatment equipment, and alert other team members to issues of quality or risk.
• Attend practice meetings whenever possible and those that are mandatory.
• Maintain competency and develop new skills as decided by service requirements.
• Communicate, refer and liaise effectively with other agencies and staff regarding patients well being, with appropriate regard to confidentiality.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Essential

• Chronic disease management especially COPD, diabetes, asthma.
• Assessing, reviewing and developing protocols.
• High level of clinical skills relevant to the role. Vaccinations, phlebotomy, wound care
• An ability to command the respect and trust of your peers.

Desirable

• Demonstrate an understanding of practice processes and change management
• cytology
• Local referral routes.
• Networking skills
• Languages relevant to our community such as urdu, punjabi or bengali