About this role
Job summary
Join our team as a Practice Nurse and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to our diverse patient population. Working collaboratively within our multidisciplinary team, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference to patients' health and wellbeing, delivering a varied range of clinical services within your scope of practice.
Your role will include providing treatment room services, supporting the management of long-term conditions and helping patients take an active role in managing their health. You'll also work closely with the practice management team to develop proactive approaches to care, enhance service delivery and contribute to the ongoing development of the practice.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and forward-thinking nurse who is passionate about delivering excellent patient care, improving health outcomes and contributing to the continued success and development of our practice.
This is for a fixed term 12 month contract.
Main duties of the job
The following are the core responsibilities of the practice nurse. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks
This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels
Treatment Room services
To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health
To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
To provide chronic disease clinics for COPD and asthma delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required
To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction within legislation
To ensure read codes are used effectively
To maintain chronic disease registers
To chaperone patients where necessary
To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
To recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
To support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
To liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc)
To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Bsc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Medina Healthcare
Brannon Way
Ryde
Isle of Wight
PO33 4NW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)