Practice Nurse

Horncastle Medical Group; East Ferry; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Horncastle Medical Group is seeking a proactive Practice Nurse to join our friendly team. The role includes nursing care, support to GPs, and involvement in vaccination and family planning services.

We offer a flexible arrangement; ideally full-time, with consideration for part-time applicants. Current NMC registration and post-registration education are essential.

Qualifications

• Registered (first level) Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Evidence of post registration education.
• Educated at diploma, degree level.
• Desirable: Independent prescribing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care and assist GPs and primary care team.
• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans for chronic conditions.
• Identify and manage patients at risk of long-term conditions.
• Support vaccinations and immunisation programmes for adults and children.
• Manage family planning, cervical cytology and related health needs.
• Contribute to Minor Injury Service and wound care.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

IT skills

Time management

Teamwork

Education

NMC registration

Post-registration education

Diploma or degree level

Tools

Systm One

Job description

Job summary

Sadly due to one of our Practice Nurses leaving due to a new role closer to home, an opportunity has arisen for a proactive and enthusiastic practice nurse to join our highly effective and friendly practice team at Horncastle Medical Group. This is ideally for a full time position, however a part time position will be considered. The role of the Practice Nurse is to provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to GPs/ANPs, and other members of the practice and primary care team. The ideal candidate will be registered with the NMC and have experience of working in GP practice setting.

Main duties of the job

Being a Practice Nurse will give you the opportunity to have a variation in your working week.

• Cervical Smears
• Chronic Disease Management
• Immunisations (eg. Travel / Childhood / Flu )
• Minor Injuries
• Treatment Room Clinics
• Travel Vaccinations

About us

Horncastle Medical Group is a friendly practice caring for approximately 10,000 plus patients

We actively encourage staff training and further career development and you will also benefit from a multidisciplinary team which includes social prescriber, pharmacist, physiotherapist, nurse practitioner, mental health practitioner etc.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to GPs, and other members of the practice and primary care team.
• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans that promote health and well being, and for patients with long term conditions.
• Proactively identify, help in diagnosing and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long term condition.
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribing treatments.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthy, and apply principles of self-care.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Advice, support and administer vaccinations where appropriate for patients travelling abroad.
• Meet the needs of patients presenting with opportunistic wound care.
• Support patients as part of the Minor Injury Service that the practice provides

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered (first level) Nurse
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of post registration education
• Educated at diploma, degree level

Desirable

• Diploma in chronic disease management
• Cervical cytology, family planning, sexual health
• Qualifications/training
• Independent prescribing qualification

Knowledge, skills and attributes

Essential

• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
• Ability to change care management skills to support patients
• Excellent verbal communications skills, able to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
• Good written communication skills, clear concise record keeping
• IT skills, Systm One clinical system
• Time management, able to organise workload
• Knowledge of national policy standards which inform and have implications for Practice , NICE, NSF, QOF

Desirable

• Knowledge of local and national health policy
• Wider health economy awareness

Experience

Essential

• Experienced Practice Nurse or a newly qualified nurse with experience of a student nurse placement in Primary Care (training will be provided to the right candidate)
• Experience of nurse-led management of long term conditions
• Experience of developing and implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
• Portfolio evidence of continuous professional development
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as an autonomous practitioner

Desirable

• Multi disciplinary and multi agency working

Other

Essential

• Must be flexible in working hours / able to work at desired times

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).