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. Health Promotion Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening. Contribute to profiling of the practice population. Enable, encourage and support individuals, families and groups to address issues which affect their health and social well-being. Represent individuals and families interests when they are not able to do so themselves. Provide healthy lifestyle and smoking cessation advice to individuals and groups. Develops and maintains the health promotion material within the practice. Organisation/Quality Ensure that all Practice Policies are fully implemented. Page 2 of 5 Deliver care to National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines, CQC Model Framework, NHS/ICB policy and evidence-based care. Cooperate fully and openly with the investigation of patient complaints (or other investigations), including drafting responses to complaints as appropriate. Support and work towards the achievement of national standards (e.g. Quality and Outcomes Framework),local NHS/CCG standards and Practice standards. Professional Role Audit outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary. Undertake annual review of patients understanding and ability to self-manage. 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. Identify, apply and disseminate research findings relating to specialist practice. Monitors and uses resources appropriately within the team e.g. vaccines and clinical stock. Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct. The nurse associate has a role in promoting good leadership for all staff and will: Contribute to and initiate the development, monitoring and support of care delivery by the Nursing Team. 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. Encourage and develop teamwork within the practice. Participate in clinical and practice meetings. Partake in clinical supervision for own development. Develop own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service. Responsibility for Information Resources Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring the consistent and accurate entering of data and use of Read Codes. Facilitate the use of up-to-date information technology in order to collate accurate and timely information asand when required by the practice. Make recommendations and raising of practice standards and service delivery. Contribute to a satisfactory call and recall system of patients. 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. 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.