Practice nurse General Practice

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

• To work as a member of the nursing team in providing nursing services to the practice population
• To use knowledge and skills, underpinned by evidence-based practice, to facilitate access to skilled nursing care within the practice
• To participate in national immunisation and screening programmes
• To safely and effectively administer routine immunisations, offering appropriate information, advice and follow as required
• Promote and deliver safe evidence-based care for patients presenting with aural conditions
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition (with appropriate training and support where needed)
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols
• Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NHS Long Term Plan and Quality Outcome Framework for Mental Health
• Advise, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad
• Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic and planned wound care

• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
• Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
• Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues
• Participate in practice team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda.
• Produce written documents that evidence the contribution of the nursing team to the practice priorities.
• Take minutes of the nursing team meetings and disseminate information to staff.

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
• Collaborate on improving the quality of health care in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
• Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
• Participate in the review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (ie: significant-event reporting, Make a Difference reporting and Safer Systems Reporting)
• Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
• Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and refer as appropriate

• Take responsibility for own development learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model
• Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
• Participate in planning and implementing changes within specified areas of care and responsibility
• Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team

• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
• Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
• Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
• Support members of the nursing team to undertake mandatory and statutory training requirements
• Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
• Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all
• Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice

• Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
• Review and process data using accurate SNOMED codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
• Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
• Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
• Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care

• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
• Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning

• Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
• Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
• Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
• Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good practice
• Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care

• To work at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
• To maintain and be responsible for personal professional registration, including revalidation requirements
• To support other members of the practice team in ensuring that all legal and contractual requirements are met, including but not limited to CQC, QOF and other service agreements
• To undertake any other ad hoc duties for the Practice Manager/Practice Nurse Manager
• To work at both sites (3 Austin Road and 33 Sleaford street)

• To work at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
• To maintain and be responsible for personal professional registration, including revalidation requirements
• To support other members of the practice team in ensuring that all legal and contractual requirements are met, including but not limited to CQC, QOF and other service agreements
• To undertake any other ad hoc duties for the Practice Manager/Practice Nurse Manager
• To work at both sites (3 Austin Road and 33 Sleaford street)

Essential

• Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
• Review and process data using accurate SNOMED codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
• Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
• Understand the responsibility of self and others regarding the Freedom of Information Act
• Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care

Desirable

• Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
• Prioritise own workload
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
• Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care
• Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team