Practice and CDM Nurse

St Mary Street Surgery; Thornbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare practice in Thornbury is seeking an experienced Practice Nurse to join their clinical team for 15 to 20 hours per week. The ideal candidate will have skills in Chronic Disease Management, wound care, and immunisations. This role offers an opportunity to work in a supportive environment focused on high-quality patient care and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a GP Practice.
• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of working within a nursing team.
• Community Nurse experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes.
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records.
• Support the clinical team with safeguarding matters.

Skills

Chronic Disease Management (CDM)

Asthma

COPD

Diabetes

Cervical cytology

Baby immunisations

Travel immunisations

Wound care including Doppler and compression

Adult immunisations

ECGs

Venepuncture

NHS Health Checks

Education

Registered Nurse

Postgraduate Diploma or Degree (Primary Care)

Job description

We are looking to recruit an experienced Practice Nurse with CDM (Asthma, COPD and/or Diabetes) who is highly motivated, proactive and positive to join our clinical team. You will need to be competent in all the usual practice nurse duties including wound care, compression bandage, cervical smears, baby and travel immunisations.

We are looking for 15 to 20 hours per week.

We have a PMS Contract

We use EMIS Web and Ardens

We provide a full range of enhanced services.

We are high QoF achievers

We have an active working relationship with our PCN member practices

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced nurse that has held a practice nurse position in a General Practice.

It's a busy environment, so you will need to be able to work under your own initiative as well as part of a successful team. Additionally you will need to be flexible and amenable to the changing demands of primary care.

About us

St Mary Street is a well established Practice located in the semi rural town of Thornbury near to the Severn Estuary. We are a dedicated team of 30 people (directly employed) who are supported by PCN employed colleagues including a Pharmacy team, Physiotherapists, a Mental Health nurse and Social Prescribers.

We are a friendly, successful 4 Partner Practice committed to providing high quality patient health and care services to our 9000 plus patients and growing. Our cultural ethos is built upon some core values including safe, accessible and continuous care for each of our patients.

We are also a GP training practice with 3 of our 4 Partners registered as trainers. Therefore, we commonly have at least one learner with us at any given time. In addition, we are supported by two part time Salaried GPs, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a highly successful nursing team and a dedicated and supportive administrative team.

We are a social bunch and fair well in the annual GP Patient Survey. Our staff turnover is low and the team supports and looks out for each other especially as patient demand on our services reaches an all time high.

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Practice nurse. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels:

a. Implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes

b. Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on patients' health

c. Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical-based evidence, NICE and the NSF e.g.

• Venepuncture
• ECGs
• Cytology Samples
• NHS Health Checks

d. Provide wound care (Ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients

e. Provide NHS only travel medicine services

f. Request pathology services as necessary

g. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation

i. Chaperone patients where necessary

j. Assist GPs with minor surgery when required

k. Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately

l. Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies

m. Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children

n. Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines (within own scope of practice)

o. Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)

p. Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies

q. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately

r. Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a GP Practice
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of working within a nursing team
• Community Nurse experience

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Chronic Disease Management:
• Asthma
• COPD
• Diabetes
• Postgraduate Diploma or Degree ( Primary Care )

Skills and Knowledge

• CDM
• Asthma
• COPD
• Diabetes
• Cervical cytology
• Baby immunisations
• Travel immunisations
• Wound care including Doppler and compression
• Adult immunisations
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• NHS Health Checks
• Importance of PSDs vs. PGDs

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.