Practice Nurse

• To lead on infection prevention and control by conducting regular audits, ensuring the clinical team adheres to infection control policies, procedures, and best practice guidelines, and implementing improvements where required to maintain high standards of patient safety and quality of care. • To undertake chronic disease management according to relevant qualifications (i.e. asthma, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, COPD), incorporating progress monitoring, response to treatment, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting the preventative aspects of nursing practice • Administer injections including baby vaccinations and travel injections as per patient group direction. Educate parents to encourage full childhood immunisation for their children to ensure vaccination targets are met. • To ensure all clinical domains for quality outcome framework are met by completing annual reviews • Cervical cytology clinics • Contraception advice • To facilitate and participate in multidisciplinary education within the practice. • To support students of any discipline undertaking a work placement at the practice. • BP monitoring • Urinalysis • Assist other clinical members when necessary. • Provide lifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the Practice or external services • Undertake wound care within capabilities. • Undertake ECGs • Take part in our annual flu campaign and clinics (out of hours clinics will be required during flu season • To advise and advertise health campaigns within the practice with support from the practice admin team and reception. • Undertake high vaginal swabs as requested by a doctor. • Being part of our Extended Access rota PRINICIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES Confidentiality: • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. • In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their Carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. • Information relating to patients, Carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. Job description Job responsibilities • To lead on infection prevention and control by conducting regular audits, ensuring the clinical team adheres to infection control policies, procedures, and best practice guidelines, and implementing improvements where required to maintain high standards of patient safety and quality of care. • To undertake chronic disease management according to relevant qualifications (i.e. asthma, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, COPD), incorporating progress monitoring, response to treatment, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting the preventative aspects of nursing practice • Administer injections including baby vaccinations and travel injections as per patient group direction. Educate parents to encourage full childhood immunisation for their children to ensure vaccination targets are met. • To ensure all clinical domains for quality outcome framework are met by completing annual reviews • Cervical cytology clinics • Contraception advice • To facilitate and participate in multidisciplinary education within the practice. • To support students of any discipline undertaking a work placement at the practice. • BP monitoring • Urinalysis • Assist other clinical members when necessary. • Provide lifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the Practice or external services • Undertake wound care within capabilities. • Undertake ECGs • Take part in our annual flu campaign and clinics (out of hours clinics will be required during flu season • To advise and advertise health campaigns within the practice with support from the practice admin team and reception. • Undertake high vaginal swabs as requested by a doctor. • Being part of our Extended Access rota PRINICIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES Confidentiality: • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. • In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their Carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. • Information relating to patients, Carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.