Practice Nurse

NHS; Altrincham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Altrincham is seeking a Practice Nurse to join their multi-disciplinary team. This role offers between 25 and 37 hours per week, with flexible scheduling to best suit both the candidate and the practice. Responsibilities include chronic disease management, administering immunisations, and ensuring patient care through telephone consultations and home visits. Candidates must be a qualified Nurse, registered with the NMC, with experience in General Practice. The practice is CQC rated 'Good' (2022).

Qualifications

• Must ensure continuation of personal and professional development.
• Experience in administering immunisations and chronic disease management.
• Ability to practice independently according to NMC code.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients face to face, via telephone, and home visits.
• Lead in asthma and COPD management.
• Administer immunisations in line with national programmes.
• Conduct health promotion and screening initiatives.

Skills

Chronic disease management

Smear taking

Immunisations

Travel advice/vaccinations

Collaboration with QoF

Documentation of care

Education

Qualified Nurse

Registered with NMC

Experience of working in General Practice

Job description

West Timperley Medical Centre is recruiting a Practice Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team.

The role will be between 25 and 37 hours, the days and clinic pattern can be negotiated to best suit you and the practice.

The Practice Nurse responsibilities to include chronic disease management, smear taking, immunisations, travel advice/vaccinations and collaboration with QoF. Dedicated admin time is included in your schedule.

Main duties of the job

The Practice Nurse will act autonomously within their professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, telephone consultations and home visits.

About us

We are a partnership practice with 4 GP Partners with 2 Salaried GPs. The practice has a wide and varied clinical team including Nurses, Student Nurse Associates, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapists, a Mental Health Nurse and Social Prescribers.

We offer a range of services at the Practice including minor surgery and contraceptive fittings.

We are a teaching practice and research active.

We have a CQC rating of "Good" (2022) and good QOF achievement.

Job responsibilities

• Practice independently in accordance with NMC code of conduct and with reference to practice guidelines
• Maintain accurate documentation of care and utilisation of IT
• Ensure continuation of own personal and professional development, facilitated by utilisation of clinical supervision networks.
• Administer adult and child immunisations and vaccinations in accordance with national and local programmes
• Takes a lead in areas such as Asthma and COPD management
• Management of chronic diseases which includes asthma, hypertension, COPD, CVA/TIA, CHD, and CHD risk assessment and management. Initiates the process of diagnosis with patients suspected to have chronic disease
• Initiates and carries our programmes of Health promotion and screening, cervical and sexual health screening.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Nurse
• Registered with NMC
• Experience of working in General Practice

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.