Practice Nurse

Job summary
Normanby Medical Centre has a vacancy for a Practice Nurse - duties will include treatment room services and supporting more senior practice nurses within the primary care setting. The surgery has 2 sites and the successful candidate will be expected to work across both. It is a large and busy practice with a well established friendly nursing team.

Main duties of the job

• Providing direct patient care in a medical practice setting
• General treatment room duties including wound care, ECG, doppler studies, health promotion, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, ear care.

About us
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Practice Nurse to join our friendly practice team which merged with Manor House in Normanby.

We are looking for a proactive, highly motivated individual who is fully competent in all aspects of patient care and dedicated to delivering a first class service in a primary care setting.

• 12 GP partners
• 8 Nurse Practitioners
• 24,700 patients (approx.)
• Systmone clinical system
• High QOF achiever
• Friendly, experienced practice team
• Personal development supported
• CQC rated as Good
• Established teaching and training practice Medical Students, Pharmacists, Physician Associates

Job responsibilities
Working under the supervision of the Lead Nurse, the Practice Nurse will work as part of the Nursing & Healthcare team providing General Medical Services to the patients.

Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being

Advising patients with respect to their continuing nursing and medical needs

Triage (face to face and telephone) assessment and treat patients wishing to see health care professional making and necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team.

Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations to the team so that referrals can be appropriate.

Ensure all contacts with patients are recorded as accurately as possible

Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.

Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals.

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily and encourage principles of self-care.

Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds.

Perform routine procedures like ear syringing, treating wounds and applying or removing dressings.

Taking urine and blood samples, other swabs and specimens.

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers.

Undertaking periodic infection control training.

Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards

Waste management, including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection.

Spillage control procedures, management and training.

Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• working autonomously
• working in Primary care/General Practice

Qualifications
Essential

• RGN (nursing and midwifery council)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.