Practice Nurse

Primary Care Careers; Bulwell; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayflower Medical Centre is seeking an experienced practice nurse to join the team on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week). The role includes two evenings until 20:30 to cover enhanced access clinics and a range of clinical duties across patients with long-term conditions.

You will undertake health assessments, vaccinations, chronic disease reviews, wound care, phlebotomy and spirometry, while promoting health and well-being and supporting patient-centred care plans.

Qualifications

• Active NMC PIN and registration as a Practice Nurse.
• Experience delivering asthma, COPD and diabetes care.
• Ability to support long-term condition management and vaccination programmes.

Responsibilities

• Undertake health assessments and administer medications and treatments.
• Run clinics and reviews for long-term conditions and vaccines.
• Provide patient-centred care plans and health promotion.
• Support and manage contraception, cervical cytology and sexual health needs.
• Conduct wound care, phlebotomy, ECGs and spirometry as required.
• Proceed with emergency care as needed and coordinate care with the team.
• Participate in enhanced access clinics and extended hours when required.
• Maintain documentation and ensure adherence to policies.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Phlebotomy

Vaccination delivery

Wound care

Patient education

Education

NMC registration with active PIN

Practice nursing qualification

Job description

Mayflower Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a full-time basis, for 37.5 hours per week. Please note the hours will include 2 days of working until 20:30 to cover our enhanced access clinics.

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

Mayflower Medical Centre is a purpose-built, modern surgery, within the community Fryatt Hospital in Harwich. We pride ourselves on the high level of patient care offered and ensure staff well being is paramount in everything that we do.

Our incredible team looks after 17,500 patients and is led by 7 GP partners and also includes nurse practitioners, practice nurses, healthcare assistants, GP assistants, practice pharmacist, pharmacy technician, MSK practitioner, mental health nurses, pro-active care team and a highly-skilled administration team.

Person Specification

All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:

• 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.
• 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.

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