Job Title: Primary Care Nurse
Location
Abuja
Job Field
Medical, Health, Safety
Roles and Responsibilities
Act as primary care provider in accordance with the NMC or equivalent Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice, working within the boundaries of your training and experience in each area, ensuring that clinical governance in maintained within the practice.
Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
Procure and dispense medication in line with medicines management policy including, Nurse Prescribing, Patient Group Directives and remote prescribing.
Communication
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
Communicate with and support patients who are receiving ‘bad news’
Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
Utilise communication skills to support patients to adhere to prescribed treatment regimens
Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders
Act as an advocate when representing the patients’ and colleagues’ viewpoints to others
Provide a health brief for all new arrivals at post including floaters. Ensuring that patients are aware of local facilities and emergency and out of hour’s arrangements. Ensuring that information is kept up to date.
Personal and People Development
Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model
Support the development of others in order to maximise potential
Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging complacency and actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services
Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of GPN services to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority
Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility
Team Working
Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working
Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties
Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery
Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the health and welfare team
Management of Risk
Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients
Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs is undertaken. Where appropriate, oversee the monitoring, stock control and documentation of controlled drug usage according to legal requirements
Undertake mandatory and statutory training
Apply infection control measures within the practice according to best practice guidelines
Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for all
Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice
Contribute to the management of health and safety at work for post.
Oversee and maintain medical equipment for out of clinic use.
Advise local management of first aid training resources where available
Utilising Information
Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information
Review and process data about patients in order to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes
Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition
Understand own and other’s responsibility to the individual organisation regarding the Freedom of Information Act
Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care
Learning and Development
Act as mentor to others, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments
Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate
Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning
Equality and Diversity
Identify patterns of discrimination, take action to overcome this, and promote diversity and quality of opportunity
Enable others to promote equality and diversity in a non-discriminatory culture
Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights
Monitor and evaluate adherence to local chaperoning policies
Act as a role model in good practice relating to equality and diversity
Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers participate in care and refuse care. Assist patients from marginalised groups to access quality care
At interview, the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following UK civil service competencies:
Leading and Communicating
At all levels, effectiveness in this area is about leading from the front and communicating with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm. It’s about supporting principles of fairness of opportunity for all and a dedication to a diverse range of citizens. At senior levels, it is about establishing a strong direction and a persuasive future vision; managing and engaging with people with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Department and the Civil Service.
Delivering a Quality Service
Effectiveness in this area is about being organised to deliver service objectives and striving to improve the quality of service, taking account of diverse customer needs and requirements. People who are effective plan, organise and manage their time and activities to deliver a high quality and efficient service, applying programme and project management approaches to support service delivery. At senior levels, it is about creating an environment to deliver operational excellence and creating the most appropriate and cost effective delivery models for public services.
Making Effective Decisions
Effectiveness in this area is about being objective; using sound judgement, evidence and knowledge to provide accurate, expert and professional advice. For all staff, it means showing clarity of thought, setting priorities, analysing and using evidence to evaluate options before arriving at well reasoned justifiable decisions. At senior levels, leaders will be creating evidence based strategies, evaluating options, impacts, risks and solutions. They will aim to maximise return while minimising risk and balancing social, political, financial, economic and environmental considerations to provide sustainable outcomes.
Delivering at Pace
Effectiveness in this area means focusing on delivering timely performance with energy and taking responsibility and accountability for quality outcomes. For all staff, it’s about working to agreed goals and activities and dealing with challenges in a responsive and constructive way. At senior levels, it is about building a performance culture to deliver outcomes with a firm focus on prioritisation and addressing performance issues resolutely, fairly and promptly. It is also about leaders providing the focus and energy to drive activities forward through others and encourage staff to perform effectively during challenging and changing time
This is an ongoing contract and it is fulltime.
The starting salary is fixed at N458, 509 per month. If the successful candidate is not liable to pay Nigerian tax there will be a 10% notional tax deduction on the basic salary. Contributory pension and health insurance schemes are available.
The core Working hours are from 8.00am – 4.00pm Monday to Friday, on call only in an event of major incident, there will be an expectation that the successful candidate will work outside these hours when relevant BHC events and priorities demand it and flexible working practices are encouraged where possible.
Other skills
Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
Aware of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse- led service
Knowledge of health promotion strategies
Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care
Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
Skills
Experience of teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
Clinical skills –immunisation and vaccination, ear care, minor surgery
Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
Communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
Negotiation and conflict- management skills
IT skills
Experience
Registered nurse in Nigeria or country of Nationality
Minimum 2 years acute healthcare experience but preferably 5 + years post registration experience in acute health care facility
Minimum 2 years post- registration experience
At least 1 year recent primary and community nursing experience
Management of long-term conditions
Involvement in implementing and using protocols and clinical guidelines
Experience of audit and participation in quality initiatives such as clinical benchmarking
Preference for candidates with experience of clinical work internationally or working with international organisations
Qualifications
Relevant nursing/health degree
Registered first level nurse
Clinical supervision training and experience
Desirable knowledge
Ability to identify determinants on health in the local area
Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
Awareness of best practice health policy
Awareness of issues within the wider health eco
Qualified Persons should send CV and Application to Recruitment.Africa@fco.gov.uk
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