Job summary
Modality Partnership Walsall Division are seeking a skilled and compassionate, experienced General Practice Nurse to join our healthcare team working at one of the sites within the Modality Walsall Division. As a Practice Nurse, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and assisting in various medical procedures. If you are passionate about helping others and have a strong knowledge of anatomy, we encourage you to apply. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering high quality patient care and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from:
* Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
* Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
* Employee discounts and benefits scheme
* Employee assistance programme (EAP)
* Education and career pathways
* Enhanced Family friendly policies
* Flexible working
* Wellbeing support and initiative
If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
Main duties of the job
The role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with a chronic condition, and the provision of preventative health care to the practice population, for the care delivered to their patients, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making in the management of patients.
About us
We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of nursing in primary care with career advancing opportunities.
All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.
Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.
Date posted: 12 November 2024
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £15.40 to £23.81 an hour Depending upon experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: E0281-24-0212
Job locations
* Harden & Blakenall Family Practice, 79 Thames Road, Walsall, WS3 1LZ
* Collingwood Family Practice, Collingwood Drive, Birmingham, B43 7NF
* Forrester Street Surgery, Forrester Street, Walsall, WS2 9PL
* Berkley Practice, Churchill Road, Walsall, WS2 0BA
* Keys Family Practice, Field Street, Willenhall, WV13 2NY
* Darlaston Family Practice, Pinfold Street, Darlaston, WS10 8SY
* New Invention Health Centre, 66 Cannock Road, Willenhall, West Midlands, WV12 5RZ
* St. Johns Medical Centre, High Street, Walsall Wood, Walsall, WS9 9LP
* Pleck Health Centre, 16 Oxford Street, Walsall, WS2 9HY
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for supporting patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily and apply principles of self-care. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whilst working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
* Professional approach to work.
* Good telephone manner.
* Strong team player.
* Smart appearance.
* Exercises tact and discretion at all times.
* Demonstrates initiative to handle any unforeseen events during a shift.
* Demonstrates flexibility towards new working practices and towards working hours.
Experience
* Minimum 1 years General Practice Experience.
* Minimum 2 years post-registration experience.
* At least 1 years recent community nursing experience.
* Experience of nurse-led management of chronic conditions.
* Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines.
* Experience of quality initiatives such as clinical benchmarking.
* Audit experience.
* Clinical supervision training and experience.
Skills
* Clinical leadership skills.
* Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination, ear care, minor surgery.
* Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle.
* Communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families.
* Negotiation and conflict management skills.
* Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting.
* IT skills.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of management of patients with chronic conditions.
* Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in primary care.
* Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
* Knowledge of local and national health policy.
* Wider health economy awareness.
* Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care.
* Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
* Knowledge of public health issues.
* Ability to identify determinants on health in the local area.
* Knowledge of public health issues in the area.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name: Modality Partnership
Address: Harden & Blakenall Family Practice, 79 Thames Road, Walsall, WS3 1LZ
Employer's website: https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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