Kingsway Medical Practice in Rochdale is looking for a Prescribing Practice Nurse to join our friendly team as we look to better serve the needs of our patients. You will be supporting patients to be healthy by monitoring long term conditions, and by focusing on health prevention and screening. You will be working with a team of GPs, a Nursing team and an excellent admin/reception team that keep the show on the road. There will be professional development opportunities, including cross-practice meetings with other Practice Nurses and opportunities for further training.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive, autonomous, efficient and professional clinical nursing service to the practice patients, including referral to other Health Care Professionals, in accordance with practice approved guidelines. To encourage the development of management and prescribing protocols. To participate in nursing needs assessment and discharge nursing responsibilities to patients when necessary.
Kingsway Medical Practice is ran by Hope Citadel Healthcare, along with 9 other practices in the Greater Manchester area.
Hope Citadel Healthcare is a not-for-profit community interest company, who have been commissioned by the local ICB to provide NHS services to the local area where the practices are located.
We really care about whole person healthcare.
We want to look at our patients in their wider setting, as whole people. We know that good health is not just related to clincial matters, but is affected by lots of complex factors such as social, economic, community issues, beliefs, family circumstances, housing and employment. Because of this, we try to treat patients health issues with more than just a prescription, by working with people that can help sort out other issues wherever possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Screening
Undertake opportunistic
screening BP checks, height, weight, BMI, urinalysis, smoking status etc. Perform new patient
registration checks
Undertake opportunistic
venepuncture
Health Promotion
Recognise patients
readiness to change in supporting their attempts to change unhealthy behaviour Provide healthy eating
advice to individuals or groups including the underweight
Provide smoking cessation
advice individually in opportunistic consultations and provide nicotine
replacement therapy / champix under agreed protocol
Provide individual advice
to patients about increasing physical activity or exercise
Vaccination and Immunisation
Administer injections
under an individual prescription or Patient Group Directives including travel
vaccinations, childhood immunisations, routine adult immunisations, B12
injections and Zoladex etc
Ensure safe storage,
rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs
Regular stock taking and
ordering of vaccinations
Infection Control
Support patients and colleagues on adopting sound infection control measures
Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and
national guidelines,
Cardiovascular disease
Contribute to the implementation of the National Service Framework
Contribute to the
maintenance of the practice CVD register
Advise patients on
lifestyle management and drug compliance for reducing the risk factors of Hypertension,
Angina, Myocardial infarction, Cerebrovascular accident
Where appropriate and
where individual clinical management plans have been agreed with the GP, the
Practice Nurse will titrate medication, in accordance with practice protocols,
for patients with hypertension and raised cholesterol.
Child Health/Child Protection
Recognise the signs,
symptoms and categories of child abuse
Understand the importance
of recognition, observation, documentation and communication
Is aware of child health
procedures, statutory local procedures and points of referral
Has knowledge of other
practitioners and agencies roles
Understands basic legal
issues around child abuse
Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF)
Contribute towards QOF by
using the clinical computer system effectively and inputting patient
information during consultations
Assist the practice in
achieving QOF targets by acting on major alerts/messages on patients records
and by opportunistic collection of data
Diabetes
Support patients in the
management of non-insulin dependant diabetes
Undertake opportunistic
screening for the diagnosis of diabetes
Support and provide basic
education for diabetic patients
Contribute to the
maintenance
Learning
and Development
Make effective use of
learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their
effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
Provide an educational
role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that
facilitates learning.
Clinical
Duties as an Independent Prescriber
To work as an independent non-medical prescriber within the area of COPD /
Asthma taking responsibility for any clinical management required as well as
responsibility for prescribing where necessary and the appropriateness of any
prescription issued.
Independent prescribers will be responsible for prescribing a range of drugs
within their competence in accordance with Practice/CCG guidelines and the BNF.
To write prescriptions in accordance with the Practice/CCG policy taking full
responsibility for the medicines prescribed.
Ensure the appropriate records are made in the patients records which identify
you as the independent prescriber.
To ensure that contemporaneous records which are unambiguous and legible are
maintained and kept in accordance with Practice policy and professional codes
of conduct.
To undertake auditing and monitoring of prescribing in your own designated area
of practice.
To ensure the safe handling of FP10 prescription forms and to report any loss
or theft accordingly.
In the event of adverse drug reactions, to be accountable for ensuring that the
GP is advised accordingly and that the incident reporting process is followed
To be accountable for ensuring that training, CPD and clinical supervision sustains
your independent prescribing status.
To have an in depth understanding of the risks associated with NMP and the
management of side effects and errors.