Nursing Associate - Malvern Town PCN

Nursing Associate - Malvern Town PCN

Reference: HW-1235

SW Healthcare

SW Healthcare is a GP federation and provider of community-based healthcare services to NHS patients within South Worcestershire. The organisation utilises the excellent clinical expertise that already resides within the local NHS environment and harnesses it with efficient administration pathways to provide patients with more convenient and accessible services. We hope that by doing this we will not only deliver pathway improvements to patients but also go some way to relieving the growing volume pressures that are being experienced within local hospitals and GP practices.

Job Purpose

SW Healthcare is looking to recruit a Nurse Associate to work across the four GP practices in Malvern Town PCN . Your role may be focused on a particular cohort of patients for example one of the roles is in our newly developed care home team or a more general role working with people of all ages.

The post holder will have completed their Nurse Associate training and be registered with the NMC able to work independently under the leadership of a practice nurse.

As a Nurse Associate you will contribute to most aspects of general practice nursing providing hands - on person centred care, working as part of a multidisciplinary team your main duties will cover promoting health and preventing ill health, delivering and monitoring care, contributing to the delivery of integrated care and improving the safety and quality of care.

The role offers an excellent next step for Health Care Assistants looking for career progression who want to move from task and protocol-based care to delivering more holistic and patient centred care. Beyond this, the role provides a good progression route into graduate level nursing.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Promoting health and preventing ill health

Provide continuing care to patients in Nursing and Residential Care Homes within Malvern Town PCN

Monitoring and support of the management of patients with long-term conditions / chronic diseases, using a holistic patient centred approach

Support the co-ordination and management of patient cohorts to ensure they receive the appropriate level of care and that indicators such as QOF are achieved

 

Working in teams

Chaperone patients when required

Assist in the training and development of other staff, in particular Healthcare Assistants and Trainee Nursing Associates in line with professional competencies for the role

Communicate effectively with other members of the primary health care team across the Network.

Attend relevant meetings as directed.

Providing and monitoring care

Provide continuing care across the primary care population, assigned cohort of the Networks population or to specific GP practice populations

Clinical duties in line with competency e.g. Suture/clip removal, basic and complex wound care, ECG. Phlebotomy, Urinalysis

Warfarin monitoring

Being an accountable professional

Recognise and work within the limits of your competence

Be responsible for own actions

Engage in reflective practice including management of self and reflection on own reactions, asking questions and reflecting on answers given

Use knowledge and experience to make evidence-based decisions and solve problems.

Act professionally at all times

Improving quality and safety of care

Participate in quality improvement initiatives

Support and participate in shared learning across the Primary Care Network

Contributing to integrated care

Support patients to improve and maintain their mental and physical health and wellbeing signposting to available services that can support the patients needs

OTHER RESPONSBILITIES

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 careers, 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.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines;

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks;

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills;

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards;

Reporting potential risks identified.

 

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation;

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues;

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, annual Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development;

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of Clinical Governance issues, quality and risk; participate in Significant Event Analysis reviews

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision;

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance;

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs;

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. He/she will also contribute to the overall team-working of the Practice putting the needs of the Practice first.

Contribution to the planning and implementation of services

The post-holder will:

Apply practice policies, standards and guidance;

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work;

Participate in audit where appropriate.

Work with the Lead GP(s) to achieve standards of quality, performance standards, without compromising levels of patient healthcare.

Contribute towards the development and implementation of new standards, policies and procedures that are/will be required of GP Practices now and in the future (as directed by NHS/ DoH/, new legislation etc.)

Communication

Be able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health professionals, users and carers, independent and voluntary sector to provide the best outcomes for users of the services.

Provide interface between hospital, primary, community and social settings, participate where appropriate in clinical meetings relating to patient care and outcomes

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Be able to keep accurate contemporaneous documentation, both written and computerised, inpatient records and will need to be familiar with EMIS Web.

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Clinical Governance

To participate and operate within the clinical governance framework for the organisation at all times, incorporating service users and carers, audit, guidelines and risk management.

To actively participate in the practices, becoming familiar with and abiding by its plans, policies and procedures.

This job description may be reviewed in the light of changing organisational and service needs. Any changes will be fully discussed with the post holder. The post holder may also be required to carry out other work appropriate to the grade of the post.

LOCATION

 

The role will mostly be based in Malvern Town member practices and will require some travel amongst PCN member practices and business meeting locations in Worcestershire. The post holder should be flexible in their working hours which may include some evening and weekend work.