Practice Nurse

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has come up at West End Clinic for a Practice Nurse. The practice list size is approximately 4,500 patients. Our team consists of 1 partners, 2 salaried GPs, 2 practice nurses, and 1 healthcare assistant.

Main duties of the job
We are looking for a proactive, reliable and forward-thinking practice nurse to join our team.

The successful candidate will form part of the nursing team in providing nursing and health promotion services to the Practice population. The candidate will provide holistic care to patients with or without direct referral from a doctor or senior nurse, within clinical guidelines.

The Practice Nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as COPD and Diabetes as well as supporting the practice management team in the reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedure.

Main duties of the job

• Chronic Disease Management
• Wound Care
• Vacc and Imms
• Family Planning
• Cytology
• Travel vaccs
• working a a team and independently

About us
We are a small busy practice servicing a patient population of approximately 4,500 patients.

We are friendly and welcoming and dedicated to staff wellbeing.

Uniform is provided

Car parking is available on site.

Job responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
• To be involved in immunisation, including campaigns as required by the public health needs of the Practice population
• To exercise knowledge and skills in chronic disease preferably trained in Diabetes Management, wound assessment and management, contraception, and other clinical skills as appropriate to the role
• To participate in infection control
• To participate in the screening and health promotion activities of the Practice
• To develop skills in sexual health, including cervical cytology and sexual health screening
• To participate in chronic disease management within Practice guidelines
• To make referrals to, and receive referrals from other health care professionals
• To demonstrate a level of knowledge clinical skill appropriate to the needs of the role
• To be involved in the management of change within the Practice and the implementation of systems to improve patient care
• To participate in, and contribute to, the clinical governance agenda of the Practice
• To assist the Practice in achieving the Quality and Outcome Framework (GMS contract)
• To evaluate and audit care
• To participate in multidisciplinary protocol development
• To be responsible for the maintenance of supplies and equipment

Qualifications
Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Driving License to travel to carry out home visit if required.
• Experience in Primary Care
• Experience working as a team
• NMC registered
• Commitment to professional personal development
• Disclosure Barring Service check

Desirable

• Cytology Trained
• Baby Vaccinations
• Travel health
• Wound Care
• Previous Experience in primary care
• Experience in Systmone although training will be given
• This is the desired criteria, training can be provided for the right candidate
• Smear Trained
• COPD Spirometry trained
• Previous systmone experience
• Diabetes Management

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.