As a Nursing Associate you will: Work as part of the practices Nursing team to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision. Improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity. Contribute to the delivery of integrated care. Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices, and those on learning assignments/placements as required; For example, as set out in the NMC Standards for Nursing Associates page 100 Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care.
Develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health. Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, pulse, ECGs, and venepuncture. After further training- spirometry, doppler assessments and dressings. After undertaking additional training, provide cervical screen testing and vaccinations as needed under a PSD for each patient.
Ensuring to attend update training yearly. Promote health and well-being to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check. Care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services.
Please see the attached document of Full Nursing Associate Job Description for further details. As a Practice Nurse you will additionally: Provide clinical nursing service and support to other professionals and to patients of the practice including treatment, screening, chronic disease management and advice within the professional competence of the post holder. Support and work effectively within the clinical team. Provide traditional aspects of nursing care, such as childhood immunisations, cervical cytology and administration of medicines, run clinics for patients with Long Term conditions such as asthma, heart disease and diabetes.
Offer new patient health checks, NHS Health Checks and well women/ men clinics. Health promotion advice is offered in areas such as contraception, weight loss, smoking cessation and travel immunisations. Please see attached document of job description and person specification for full Practice Nurse requirement

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