Locum Nurse

Primary Care Careers; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Stowmarket is seeking an experienced or newly qualified practice nurse for a part-time role (18 hours/week). Responsibilities include providing health interventions, managing long-term conditions, and supporting patient care in a collaborative, innovative environment. Ideal candidates should have relevant NMC registration and clinical experience. This role prioritizes work-life balance and fosters professional development.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Supportive culture

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN is required.
• Must have completed relevant nursing courses or have equivalent experience.
• Competence in managing asthma, COPD, and diabetic clinics.

Responsibilities

• Provide and evaluate health interventions for patients.
• Manage long-term conditions based on practice needs.
• Undertake health assessments and administer treatments.

Skills

Clinical skills and experience

Compassionate manner

Knowledge of long-term conditions

Education

NMC registration with active PIN

CNO002 General Practice module or equivalent

Job description

Are you looking for a practice nurse position that prioritises work-life balance, well-being, and professional development in a friendly, well-run, and innovative environment? If so, wed love to hear from you!

Mendlesham Medical Grouphas a fantastic opportunity foran experienced or a newly qualified practice nurse to join our team on apart-time basis,for 18 hours per week on Thursdays and Fridays. The requirement is for approximately 6-12 months.Whether youre looking for full-time or part-time work, wed love to discuss how you can fit into our thriving practice.

Main duties of the job

• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.

About us

We are a two site dispensing rural practice with a stable patient population that offers the perfect blend of professional satisfaction and a great quality of life.

Why Join Us?

• Work-life balance and supportive culture
• Well-structured clinical sessions to ensure fair patient contact.
• Team well-being is a priority, with a culture of support, and collaboration.
• Training Practicewe support GP registrars and medical students and provide mentorship opportunities.
• Regular clinical and educational meetings fostering continuous learning and development.
• Embracing Digital Innovationstreamlined document workflow management and digital tools to reduce administrative burden.
• High QOF achievement and dispensing practice benefits.
• Rural settingwith a good balance of deprivation and affluence, providing a rewarding and varied clinical caseload.
• Work alongside GPs, nurse practitioners, paramedics, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and a paramedic home visiting service.
• A well-run and supportive practice management team ensuring smooth operations.
• A collaborative, friendly, and professional team environment that values everyones contributions.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find outmore information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact withus.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Ideally having completed the CNO002 Discovering a Nursing Career in General Practice module or the Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) however we would still be interested in those applicants with equivalent experience or qualifications.
• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.

Experience

• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

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.

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