Practice Nurse

NHS Jobs; Carnforth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a nurse to join the practices nursing team, providing and monitoring care under supervision to improve safety and quality of care. You will support MDT integration and supervise trainee nursing associates and healthcare assistants.

Duties include recording vital signs, venepuncture, ECGs, immunisations and long-term condition clinics. After training, cervical screening and vaccinations may be provided with annual refreshers, promoting

Qualifications

• Provide and monitor care under direct or indirect supervision.
• Develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of roles.
• Attend update training yearly and maintain competency in core nursing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, pulse and ECGs.
• Offer immunisations and cervical screening after appropriate training.
• Support training nursing associates, healthcare assistants and learners.
• Promote health and wellbeing and signpost to local community services.

Skills

Clinical nursing

Vital signs monitoring

Venepuncture

ECG administration

Vaccinations

NMC standards knowledge

Tools

ECG equipment

Medical devices

Job description

Work as part of the practices Nursing team to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision. Improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity. Contribute to the delivery of integrated care. Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices, and those on learning assignments/placements as required; For example, as set out in the NMC Standards for Nursing Associates page 100 Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care. Develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health. Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, pulse, ECGs, and venepuncture. After further training- spirometry, doppler assessments and dressings. After undertaking additional training, provide cervical screen testing and vaccinations as needed under a PSD for each patient. Ensuring to attend update training yearly. Promote health and well-being to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check. Care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services. Provide clinical nursing service and support to other professionals and to patients of the practice including treatment, screening, chronic disease management and advice within the professional competence of the post holder. Support and work effectively within the clinical team. Provide traditional aspects of nursing care, such as childhood immunisations, cervical cytology and administration of medicines, run clinics for patients with Long Term conditions such as asthma, heart disease and diabetes. Offer new patient health checks, NHS Health Checks and well women/ men clinics. Health promotion advice is offered in areas such as contraception, weight loss, smoking cessation and travel immunisations.

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