Job description

Job responsibilities

• Support patients to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and well-being.

• Promote comfort and well-being by ensuring that patients’ personal and social needs are met and be able to care for a patient’s nursing needs.

• To safely undertake the following procedures to meet the patient’s nursing needs to include; undertaking routine procedures including venepuncture, ECG recording, measuring and interpreting blood glucose levels, recording and interpreting vital signs, continence care, bladder and bowel care, pressure area care, wound care, nutrition, hydration, foot care, skin integrity, mood identification (as outlined in the NMC Nursing Associate Skills Annex). Identify and report changes in a patient’s condition to a registered nurse or other professional.

• Prioritise and manage own workload, recognising where elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers and family members.

• Provide and receive sensitive information concerning a patient’s medical condition.

• Work with registered nurses and other professionals and engage with other agencies and community teams to ensure a safe, individualised approach to the admission and discharge of patients.

• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records in line with [PCN/practice] policy and the NMC Code.

• Provide effective evidence based care for service users under the supervision of registered nurses and other professionals in order to perform non-complex activities, in line with clinical governance and professional standards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered NursingAssociate on the NMC register
• Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or
• equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of amulti-disciplinary team
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Experience of providing andreceiving complex, sensitiveinformation

Desirable

• Experience working in a primary care setting

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation,
• and how the role may contribute to service development
• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
• Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Ability to organise andprioritise own delegated workload
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload andindividual patient contact
• Ability to communicateeffectively (written, verbaland non verbal
• communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of themulti-disciplinary team.
• Ability to develop effectiveand appropriate relationships with people,
• their families, carers and colleagues
• Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a rolemodel to nursing associatestudents, other learners andhealth care support workers
• as required within theclinical setting.

Desirable

• Knowledge of community based primary care issues
• Knowledge of primary care networks and collaborative ways of working

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).

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and support staff in general practice. In this role they are supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them. The pharmacist works as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a multi-faceted role with elements of patient-facing and organisational based work. The pharmacist aids PCN member practices in areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The pharmacist provides primary support to general practices within the PCN with regards to prescription and medication queries. They may involve supporting with the repeat prescription system, dealing with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practices.The pharmacist provides clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manages some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The pharmacist will ensure that the PCN integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The pharmacist is enrolled onto the CPPE Pharmacists in General Practice education course to help develop the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to work in general practice as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role. In addition the pharmacist will be supported to develop their role in becoming a non-medical prescriber.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in Pharmacy Mandatory registration with GPHC

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical society Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing,concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing Excellent interpersonal,influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Is able to plan, manage,monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Good IT skills Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers Work effectively independently and as a team member Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

Desirable

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Produce timely and informative reports

Other

Essential

• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence
• In date CRB
• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Information Governance toolkit completion
• Immunisation status
• Basic life support training

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).