Senior Practice nurse -Home visits
hace 16 días
Liverpool
Princes Park Health Centre, L8 0SY Job Summary: Part time role: 26-30 hours. The Senior Practice Nurse is an experienced autonomous practitioner and non medical prescriber with strong expertise in General Practice and a thorough understanding of the Quality Outcomes Framework and wider quality targets. They deliver advanced clinical care for complex chronic conditions, particularly for housebound patients, while working effectively within multi professional and multiagency settings. They operate at an advanced level of practice, providing leadership through staff training, supervision, and support, contributing to clinical audits, research, and service improvement. The role also involves developing and updating local protocols, guidelines, and procedures to ensure high quality, evidence based care. • Undertake complex general practice nursing interventions across a wide range of clinical presentations, applying advanced practical skills and a critical understanding of the theories underpinning primary care., • Assess patients capacity for informed consent and support colleagues in developing this competency., • Apply highly developed specialist knowledge of longterm conditions, health behaviours, and evidence based interventions, including the use of technology to support patients at home., • Independently manage clinical care episodes from initial presentation through to completion, including referral, admission, discharge, or ongoing homebased care., • Use advanced therapeutic knowledge to prescribe and evaluate pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments, assessing patient concordance and adjusting care plans accordingly., • Challenge practice, systems, and policies constructively and objectively to support continuous improvement., • Contribute to the development and review of local policies, pathways, and procedures., • Design, deliver, and evaluate training and education for individuals and groups, working collaboratively across disciplines to support interprofessional learning. Extended access sessions will form part of your contracted hours. If you are successful at interview and are registered with any Brownlow practice, you will be required to change practices as a condition of employment. Other job locations include: • Ropewalks Surgery, 26 Argyle Street, L1 5DL, • Kensington Neighbourhood Centre,157 Edge Ln, Liverpool L7 2PF, • Marybone Health Centre,2 Vauxhall Rd, Liverpool L3 2BG Date posted: 08 January 2026 Pay scheme: Other Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year WTE Contract: Permanent Working pattern: Part-time Reference number: A1812-26-0002 Principal Responsibilities: • Able to undertake complex general practice nursing interventions for a wide range of general practice issues and teach and develop other staff to enhance their practice to manage future situations. This will entail being able to demonstrate not only practical knowledge but also a critical understanding of the range of theories and principles that underpin the general practice nursing approach., • Assess capacity for informed consent and support other staff to develop this skill., • Highly developed specialist knowledge and understanding of LTCs, health behaviour and interventions to improve health outcomes, including the use of technologies to support patients at home., • Able to manage clinical care at the highest level independently, from beginning to end, for example from when an individual presents through to the end of the episode, which may include admission, referral or discharge or care at home., • Advanced knowledge and skills in therapeutics to prescribe effective pharmacological and non- pharmacological approaches for the management of LTCs and assess patient concordance., • Is able to respectfully challenge practice, systems and policies in an objective and constructive manner., • Participate in opportunities to influence local policies, pathways and procedures., • Is able to develop, deliver and evaluate training and education packages, for individuals and groups, across a broad range of general practice nursing needs and in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies to facilitate inter-professional/agency learning., • Demonstrate problem-solving skills underpinned from perspectives, for example in research processes, service and quality improvement techniques, educational theory, or leadership and management theory., • Participate in the planning and implementation of development programmes., • Focus on the improvement of patient safety by developing systems to disseminate learning from incidents and follow up to ensure best practice is embedded in delivery of care., • Act as an experienced work-based learning educator/assessor by providing advice and support to other practitioners and build capability and capacity to support learning in practice settings., • They may delegate work to other members of the multidisciplinary team and take accountability for the delegated activity., • Able to assimilate information from a range of sources and ensure complex decisions reflect the analysis of these different perspectives even when limited information is available., • Is able to participate in strategy development, presenting a positive role model for general practice nursing, and ensuring this translates into practice development to improve the quality of care., • Able to apply the theoretical perspectives of change management to create an environment for successful change and practice development and utilise conflict management and resolution strategies where appropriate. Demonstrate and evaluative an outcomes-based approach to practice and develop strategies to share this with a wider audience. Is able to appreciate the broadest context of clinical governance and initiate and support others, including service users, to be involved in a range of quality assurance and monitoring activities., • Ensure that quality and audit cycles are completed and results and learning are fed back into practice., • Develop processes for monitoring clinical effectiveness and efficiency to enhance management of resources., • Where required undertake significant event auditing (or equivalent) and be skilled in undertaking objective investigations and in writing objective reports following the completion of the investigation and in presenting this information orally if required., • To lead at least one special area of expertise to be seen as a local expert and role model able to articulate the most contemporary evidence, approaches to practice and management., • The organisation has a zero tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All employees are required to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children Board Procedures and the Children Act (1989, 2004). In accordance with the CCG and Local Safeguarding Adult Board policy all staff must ensure the health and wellbeing of vulnerable adults is appropriately safeguarded. The post holder may be required to undertake other related duties not specifically mentioned above. Any changes to this role specification will be made in consultation with the post holder. Brownlow Health operates a No Smoking Policy and is an equal opportunities employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr