Practice Nurse

NHS; Basildon; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

The Knares Medical Practice in Basildon is seeking an experienced practice nurse for a part-time role, offering 8-16 hours per week. The successful candidate will be responsible for health assessments, managing long-term conditions, and providing patient-centered care. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering high-quality healthcare services.

Qualifications

• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD, and diabetic clinics.
• Evidence of clinical skills in treatment room consultations.
• Insight into current issues in nursing and the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking health assessments and administering treatments.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions.
• Implementing vaccination and immunisation programmes.

Skills

Compassionate manner

Empathetic approach

Clinical skills

Knowledge of long-term conditions

Education

Current NMC registration with active PIN

Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course or equivalent

Job description

The Knares Medical Practice situated in Basildon, has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, to work between 8-16 hours per week. Ideally these hours would be worked on a Tuesday and/or a Wednesday but if you are interested in the role, please do get in touch - we would love to hear what you can offer.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• 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.
• 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.
• New patient and health checks.

About us

The Knares Medical Practice in Basildon is part of the West Basildon Primary Care Network (PCN). The doctors and staff at the surgery are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.

We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

Job responsibilities

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please do nothesitate to get in contact with us.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• 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, assisting with minor surgery, 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.