Practice Nurse

Fairbrook Medical Centre; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare center in Borehamwood is seeking an enthusiastic Practice Nurse for a 6-month role. The ideal candidate will provide holistic, evidence-based nursing care, covering treatment room activities such as wound care, cervical cytology, and immunisations. With a focus on patient-centered care, this role requires 3 years of experience in General Practice, as well as competencies in Basic Life Support and managing NHS Health checks. Join a supportive multidisciplinary team in a busy, diverse practice that values professional development.

Qualifications

• 3 years experience working in General Practice, with competencies in Cervical Cytology, Wound care, and adult & childhood immunisations.
• Experience of managing NHS Health checks & Diabetes Prevention Clinics.
• Dependable & reliable, with experience in Diabetes management including foot checks.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic patient-centered, evidence-based nursing care.
• Undertake Treatment Room activities including wound care and immunisations.
• Work alongside the multidisciplinary team to offer a full range of Nursing Services.

Skills

Cervical Cytology

Wound care

Adult immunisations

Childhood immunisations

Basic Life Support

Anaphylaxis

Education

Registered General Nurse

2 day Fundamentals of Immunisation Course

Basic Life Support & Anaphylaxis

Tools

Emis

Ardens Templates

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly Practice Nurse to join our team for a 6 month period to work along side our existing GPN's and Healthcare assistant, as well as the extended multidisciplinary team.

The role is to cover a combination of Study Leave and an increase in surgery Population size, which has resulted in growing demand for appointments.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Practice Nurse to work for approx 9 hours a week. This can be split over 2 days, or a single day, but would need to be a Thursday/Friday due to room availability.

The successful candidate needs to be able to undertake all Treatment Room activities, including wound care, cervical cytology, and Adult and Childhood immunisations. Additional skills of benefit are NHS Health checks, ear irrigation, dopplers and travel assessment, though these are not essential

About us

We are a busy, diverse teaching practice of 15000 patients with good links to London & Hertfordshire. We operate a total triage system, and offer a full complement of General Practice Services.

We currently have a Lead Nurse/ANP, 2 General Practice Nurses, an HCA, and a housekeeper in the Nursing team, and we work alongside our GP Partners, Salaried GP's and Locums, as well as MSK specialists, and Mental health Nurses clinically, as well as a full compliment of administrative support by care co-ordinators, Secretaries, Prescription teams, Pre Reg pharmacists, and managers.

We are served by good local facilities, including Parks, eateries and a shopping park which are all in walking distance, alongside a mainline station & local buses.

We consistently receive 4 & 5 star reviews from our Patient groups, have an active PPG group, and are a registered active practice, as well as an accredited Veteran friendly practice, and are in the process of gaining our Purple star award for our work with Learning disabilities.

We also hold regular in house teaching sessions for our staff from Clinical Experts & Consultants which all staff a re encouraged to attend

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a friendly, adaptable and proactive individual to join our existing team and work alongside us for the next 6 months to provide our patient group with holistic patient centred ,evidence based nursing care.

We offer a full range of Nursing Services (with the exception of yellow fever vaccination ) and the successful candidate would be required to work with us to ensure these services are provided to a high standard.

Person Specification

Experience

• * 3 years experience working in General Practice, with competencies in Cervical Cytology, Wound care, and adult & childhood immunisations
• *Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis
• *Experience of managing NHS Health checks & Diabetes Prevention Clinics

Additional Skills

• Experience of Using Emis and Ardens Templates as data entry platforms
• Dependable & reliable
• Diabetes management including foot checks

Qualifications

• *Registered General Nurse
• *2 day Fundamentals of Immunisation Course
• *Basic Life Support & Anaphylaxis

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.