Practice Nurse

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To provide a needs led focused service dictated by the Practice Strategy and the framework of the NHS modernisation agenda. To be accountable for ensuring that agreed professional standards are reflected in clinical practice supporting the delivery of policies and procedures. To deliver a high standard of clinical skills to support the provision of enhanced nursing services to the whole practice population including chronic disease management, health promotion, maintaining immunisation and screening programmes. To work collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients using evidence based care principals.
To promote an environment conducive to the training needs of staff and students and participate in education programmes as required. The post holder frequently will work unsupervised and is accountable for care delivered, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in decision making in the management of patients. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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