Job summary
The Nurse Associate will work as part of the practice nurse team under the guidance of a Registered General Practice Nurse. You will provide and maintain a high professional standard of nursing care adhering to current local and national Nurse Associate will provide holistic and proactive care to patients registered at Affinity care. It is essential the Nurse Associate works within their own level of competency and expand theri role in accordance to Affinity care's requeirements and own scope of professional practice.
Main duties of the job
1. Undertake procedures as stated in the NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates, to include but not limited to; venepuncture, BP management, urinalysis, peak flow, spirometry, new patient health checks, pregnancy testing, stitch/clip removal, ear syringing and wound management.
2. Administer adult and child immunisations and vaccinations in accordance with national and local programmes under patient specific directives.
3. Is competent in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques. Ensures safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs and adequate stock levels are maintained.
4. Offer comprehensive travel health advice for patients prior to travel to include malaria prophylaxis, safer sex, food hygiene, sun protection, first aid and emergency medication, health insurance and vaccinations.
5. Recognise and understand the importance of observing, documenting and communicating the signs and symptoms of child and adult abuse
6. Undertake cytology screening including the audit of patients under the cytology programme.
7. Work within all relevant practice and policies and procedural guidelines infection control, chaperoning, patient specific directions.
8. Participate and support in the management of long-term conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD management, undertake disease management clinics and provide specialist nursing care for the patients or communities that the practice serves.
About us
We are Affinity Care Primary Care Network covering a population of over 64,000 patients over 7 GP practices and 8 sites, all in the Bradford area. Our ethos is to provide patient focused care based on the model of GP-led family orientated general practice tailored to local population needs. Our practices are highly accredited training practices, level 3 research ready sites within an embedded ethos of our learning organisation.
We are a friendly enthusiastic and hard working team with opportunities for career progression and will provide support and development for anyone demonstrating capability, enthusiasm, commitment and strong work ethic.
Benefits include:
9. 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time hours)
10. Birthday Holiday
11. Well-being day
12. NHS pension
Job description
Job responsibilities
13. Participate in programmes of care for all areas of women's health and family planning including providing and supporting care under agreed local/national guidelines, protocols and patient specific directions.
14. Health Promotion
15. Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening.
16. Contribute to profiling of the practice population.
17. Enable, encourage and support individuals, families and groups to address issues which affect their health and social well-being.
18. Represent individuals and families interests when they are not able to do so themselves.
19. Provide healthy lifestyle and smoking cessation advice to individuals and groups.
20. Develops and maintains the health promotion material within the practice.
21. Organisation/Quality
22. Ensure that all Practice Policies are fully implemented.
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24. Deliver care to National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines, CQC Model Framework, NHS/ICB policy and evidence-based care.
25. Cooperate fully and openly with the investigation of patient complaints (or other investigations), including drafting responses to complaints as appropriate.
26. Support and work towards the achievement of national standards ( Quality and Outcomes Framework),local NHS/CCG standards and Practice standards.
27. Professional Role
28. Audit outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary.
29. Undertake annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage.
30. Refer to other members of the extended primary health care team eg chiropodist, dietician, specialist nurses. Contribute to ICB/Service/Team audit and research activity as required.
31. Identify, apply and disseminate research findings relating to specialist practice.
32. Monitors and uses resources appropriately within the team vaccines and clinical stock.
33. Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
34. The nurse associate has a role in promoting good leadership for all staff and will:
35. Contribute to and initiate the development, monitoring and support of care delivery by the Nursing Team.
36. Provide expert clinical advice on educational opportunities that will facilitate the development and support of their specialist knowledge and skills to ensure the development of clinical practice.
37. Encourage and develop teamwork within the practice.
38. Participate in clinical and practice meetings.
39. Partake in clinical supervision for own development.
40. Develop own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service.
41. Responsibility for Information Resources
42. Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring the consistent and accurate entering of data and use of Read Codes.
43. Facilitate the use of up-to-date information technology in order to collate accurate and timely information asand when required by the practice.
44. Make recommendations and raising of practice standards and service delivery.
45. Contribute to a satisfactory call and recall system of patients.
46. Understand and follow the requirements of confidentiality (including the Data Protection Act) and the Freedom of Information Act and to refer on any queries as appropriate.
47. Follow Practice policy regarding the use of email, SystemOne and computer tasks as the main internal method of non-verbal communication and the use of the intranet and the internet as the main source of internal and external information, including the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
48. Foundation Degree - Nurse Associate
49. Registered with the NMC