We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working and motivated Maternity Cover Practice Nurse to work at Waterloo House Surgery, Millom. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills to work with the existing committed team, helping drive forward change, improving health outcomes.
The post holder will deliver care to Practice patients, treatments, preventative care, screening and patient education. They will provide high quality evidence based care to meet the health and social needs of the Practice population, working within the boundaries set out by the regulated standards, and working collaboratively with the General Practice Team.
Cumbria Health places the patient, their family and their community at the heart of everything we do. We are an award-winning organisation, the first out-of-hours organisation in the country to be rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We provide primary health care services, both in and out of hours, across Cumbria. We are values-driven and place great emphasis on inclusivity and the wellbeing and development of our staff, while striving to provide a consistently high-quality service. Our service is designed to improve health and wellbeing.
Working for Cumbria Health can offer flexible opportunities in terms of location, hours and working patterns so you can enjoy a great work life balance. In order to provide the best patient care we understand the importance of ensuring staff satisfaction and are consistently trying to ensure we offer our staff a positive working environment whether that be though training or social events.
Listen to your heart. Have the work life balance you'd love.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This
list of duties and responsibilities, which follows, represents the broad
range of tasks which may be required to be undertaken either routinely or
periodically. This list is not
exhaustive and the role may include additional duties which are not listed
here.
Clinical Skills
1)
Works
independently as a Practice Nurse / Treatment Room Nurse with treatment room
skills within the scope of professional practice.
2)
Undertakes
the monitoring of Long-term conditions, including asthma, COPD, diabetes and
chronic heart disease.
3)
Excellent
communication skills through patient consultation and nursing assessment of
physical, psychological and social needs.
a)
Takes
an accurate history, building rapport towards a therapeutic relationship.
b)
Assess,
plan and implements patient centred plan of care for patients and refer when
necessary to other healthcare professionals for further specialised care.
4)
Undertake
routine assessments in relation to individuals health and wellbeing and
evaluate the outcomes of care.
5)
Performs
investigations and uses core clinical skill and competence.
a)
Recognition
of abnormal vital signs observing adult respiratory rate and effort, heart
rate rhythm and volume, temperature and blood pressures as appropriate.
b)
Perform
investigative procedures including; Performing ECGs, Urinalysis, Blood
Glucose monitoring, Venepuncture, measuring and interpreting Peak Flow.
6)
Adapts
to change within working situation managing unscheduled emergency situations.
a)
Basic
life support, severe breathing problems, serious cardiovascular problems,
collapsed patients and seriously ill patients.
7)
Delivers
a high standard of care without discrimination to all ages, sexes and ethnic
origins of the population through continuum of life.
8)
Promote
improving the health of the individual through providing advice and education
to aid adjustment of lifestyle.
9)
Recognise
own limitations, seek assistance and refer appropriately.
10)
Deliver
safe, effective evidence based care and advice to ease patient problems.
Communication
1)
Communicates
effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
a)
Liaises
when necessary with general practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Reception
& Admin Team, Paramedics, Accident and Emergency, Secondary Care,
District nurses, Community MDT, social workers, mental health team, and
Social Care Teams.
2)
With
Primary care nursing team giving support and advice.
3)
With
reception staff regarding patient information.
4)
Recognise
and effectively manages situations where there are barriers to effective
communication.
Professional
1)
Complies
with Nursing and Midwifery council code of conduct and works within scope of
professional practice.
2)
Actively
participates in clinical meetings.
3)
Ensures
practice and implementation of care is evidence based by adhering to local
and national guidance
4)
Maintain
confidentiality of information regarding patients.
5)
Ensure
accurate, concise documentation.
6)
Report
any adverse incidents or near miss events through agreed Cumbria Health
system.
7)
Maintains
professional development in risk awareness, health and safety, fire safety at
work, Child and Adult safeguarding, conflict resolution, information
governance and basic life support by attending annual mandatory training.
8)
Identify
and/ or participate in strategies of risk assessment to avoid or prevent
clinical incidents and near misses incorporated in the clinical governance
framework including:
a)
Risk
management, Child and Adult safeguarding policies, Medicine management
policies and Infection prevention policies.
Leadership
1)
Is
a support network for other colleagues, particularly nursing team.
2)
Act
as role model to inspire and motivate others
3)
Helps
to establish a culture where Long-term conditions management and health
promotion flourishes in practice.
4)
Is
a voice that challenges practise to promote best practice.
Organisational Skills
1)
Be
aware and comply with Cumbria Health policies and procedures.
2)
Able
to adapt to change in the workplace being involved in new developments in the
delivery of care.
3)
Ensure
faulty clinical equipment is reported and repaired and adequate for use.
4)
Ensure
store supplies are adequately ordered and maintained.
5)
Participate
and support the implementation of clinical governance, clinical audit and
clinical risk assessment, setting and monitoring standards of care.
6)
Promote
improving the health of the community through reporting and preventing
occurrences of infectious disease, providing advice and education.
7)
Have
a flexible approach to geographical locations across county sites.
Training and Educational
1)
Currently
enhancing professional development.
2)
Continually
keeps up to date with current evidence based practice.
3)
Is
involved in lifelong learning.
4)
Ensure
mandatory training has been completed.
5)
Participates
in in-house training provided/clinical meetings/supervision