To assist medical personnel in the care of practice patients to include treatment, preventative care, screening, and patient education.
You will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, following policy and procedures while providing supervision to more junior staff.
Good communications are extremely important within the Practice, with patients and with outside agencies, and you will be expected to help ensure that everyone who comes into contact with it holds the practice in high regard. Absolute discretion is required in protecting patients' confidentiality.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
* To work alongside the clinicians in the provision of patient care.
* Monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health care professionals.
* Undertake annual reviews of patients on relevant chronic disease register.
* Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients (within agreed protocols) and referral to general practitioners as necessary.
* Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as necessary.
* Following appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and dispatch of pathological specimens including but not limited to intravenous blood samples, swabs, and smears, and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment used. Perform any investigatory procedures requested by the GPs.
* To recognise changes in the patients' recordings which must be reported on and acted on.
* To work alongside clinicians in emergency management of patients.
* Enable patients to access appropriate professionals in the practice team.
* Act as a chaperone.
* Clearly present patients' points of view to others.
The above is not an exhaustive list of duties, and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessary if required within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.
About us
We are a three-partner training practice based in the heart of Woodley.
We provide care to around 14,000 patients.
Our team consists of 3 GP Partners, 5 salaried GPs, 3 Practice nurses, 2 HCAs, 3 pharmacists, 1 pharmacy tech, and Health and Wellbeing team. We work closely with our PCN.
Job responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
* Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients' health.
* Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE, and the NSF.
* Provide vaccination and travel medicine services.
* Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients.
* Request pathology services as necessary.
* Process pathology results as required.
* Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
* Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
* Ensure read codes are used effectively.
* Maintain chronic disease registers.
* Develop, implement, and embed well woman clinics.
* Develop, implement, and embed well man clinics.
* Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
* Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
* Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
* Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice).
* Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
* Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
* Maintain baby immunisation results logs.
* Maintain smears results logs.
* Manage emergency drug kit.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC registered.
* Immunisation training.
* Emis knowledge.
Experience
* Experience of working in a nursing team.
* Experience of working in primary care.
* Experience of working in a GP practice.
* CVD.
* Cytology.
* Diabetic reviews.
* ECG.
* Asthma.
* Immunisations.
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.
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