Lead Practice Nurse
Application Deadline: 13 April 2025
Department: Primary Care
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: DMC Crystal Palace Road Medical Centre, SE22 9EP
Reporting To: Ravi Gupta
Description
The Person
Passionate about contributing to DMC’s service development across our Nursing Service Team and more widely across the organisation, enabling you to be involved in the decisions that affect our care delivery.
The Role
The post holder is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population. As the team leader for the nursing team, the post holder is accountable for nursing service delivery.
They will lead and manage all the nursing resource, working closely with the practice management and GPs to deliver the practice priorities. Clinically, the focus of the role is the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients with long-term conditions and management and preventative nursing interventions to all patients.
As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible for the care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making. They will work collaboratively with the whole practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing leadership and direction for the nursing team.
Responsibilities
Core functions, but not limited to:
Clinical duties
* Assess, plan, develop, implement, provide, and evaluate treatment programmes including, but not limited to:
* Health promotion and well-being plus individual plans for patients with/at risk of a long term condition.
* Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs.
* Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence based practice and national/practice protocols, and work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments.
* Prioritise health problems, intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
* Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.
* Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children including patients travelling abroad.
* Meet the needs of patients presenting for wound care communication.
* The post holder will communicate regularly with colleagues, the Partners and Doctors within the surgery, the Practice Nursing Team, attached staff, patients, members of the general public and a range of external agencies.
* 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, including those receiving “bad news”.
* Participate in practice team meetings, delivering the nursing agenda and run nurse department meetings.
* Produce written documents that evidence the contribution of the nursing team to the practice priorities.
Non-Clinical duties
* 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 and other’s workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
* Deliver care as an individual and team according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care, assessing effectiveness of care delivery through peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation and leading on the maintenance of quality governance systems for the nursing team.
* Implement and review the application of evidence-based practice in nursing.
* Lead and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation and assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.
* Monitor the performance of the PN team in accordance with local policies.
* Work within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable children and 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 staff potential.
* Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of practice nursing services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.
* Lead the nursing team in the planning and implementation of local guidelines, protocols and standards, and of local projects or initiatives.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
* Registered nurse
* Experience of working in a primary care environment
* Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
* Experience of chronic disease management
* Experience of working autonomously
* Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
* Strong IT skills
* Clear, polite telephone manner
* Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
* Effective time management (planning and organising)
* Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
* Commitment to ongoing professional development
Other Requirements
* Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
* Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
* Occupational health clearance
* Driving Licence – if the role requires you to travel via car
Desirable
* Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease Management)
* Nurse prescriber
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