Company:
MCG Healthcare
Location: London
Closing Date: 07/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Nurse Manager Job Description
Management
- Ensure the Nursing Team work effectively to provide a high quality service to patients and to work effectively with other agencies
- Develop, review and implement nursing protocols in conjunction with the Partners and Management Team
- Support all members of the nursing/HCA team, providing guidance when necessary, conducting appraisals and training needs analyses as required
- Co-ordinate the nursing team rota, ensuring sufficient staff are available to meet patient needs and hit the targets
- Supervise and assess the Nursing Teams performance, ensuring a high standard of performance and personal development.
- Identify gaps within the Nursing Team skill set, and ensure staff are upskilled and trained accordingly. This includes: Nursing Team, HCAs and GPAs.
- Ensure resilience within the nursing team, in case of emergencies.
- Support the recruitment, selection and retention of nursing staff to meet the health and well-being needs of the practice population
- To organise monthly Nurse Meetings and follow up with any necessary actions
- Offer and provide clinical supervision to other members of the practice nursing team and act as a Line Manager to HCAs, Nurses and GPAs.
- Develop a working environment that promotes healthy, safe and effective work outcomes
Clinical
- Identify, assess and manage patients with complex health needs, in all cases in accordance with practice policies & protocols
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- To manage acute and chronic conditions and ensure the appropriate maintenance and use of chronic disease registers
- To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- To develop, implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes and improve the health and well-being of the specific needs of communities, groups and individuals
- To co-ordinate the provision of travel medicine services, and to ensure we promotion of the service
- To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Lead the child immunisation clinic and work with the nursing team to ensure a robust recalling system for 8 weeks checks and baby immunisations.
- Identifying health trends and public health issues and working with the team and others to combat these by ensuring patient education and/or specific clinics (e.g. MMR clinics following the rise of Measles)
- Working with public health initiatives ensuring the work of the team is up to date
Nursing Targets
- Continually monitor the QOF targets and PIP reports to ensure we are on target and feedback to the Practice Manager and Targets Lead frequently.
- Highlight areas where we are not on target and communicate with the Recalls Lead/GPAs/Management Team
- Organise Flu, Shingles, Pneumonia, Health Check Clinics etc. to ensure we are profitable and providing excellent patient care
- Ensure we have a comprehensive cervical screening recall system, and that smear results/colposcopy referrals are processed effectively and in a timely manner.
- Leading the team in achieving the immunisation guidelines and targets
Compliance
- Lead by example in promoting high infection prevention & control (IPC) standards in clinical treatment and throughout the practice to ensure a quality service. Ensuring all rooms are CQC compliant
- Assist in compilation and implementation of policy, guidance and procedures relating to IPC in the practice
- To maintain updated knowledge and skills in IPC and feeding back / share information appropriately on matters relating to IPC to all practice staff.
- Participate in the review of significant events and support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Ensure all PGDs are kept up-to-date and that all nursing staff are compliant with them
- Ensuring all rooms remain CQC compliant
- Monitor stocking levels and ensuring no out of date equipment or stock in found within the rooms
Quality and Administrative
- Work with the GPAs and Admin Team to reduce DNAs
- Ensure all workflow and tasks are actioned in a timely manner
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Any other duties commensurate with the role to ensure the smooth running of the Practice.
To apply, please contact Will Drake on 07443 192 261
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