Practice Nurse

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Southampton is seeking a Practice Nurse to provide patient care, including wound management and immunisations. The role offers flexible working arrangements. Ideal candidates will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and must be fully qualified with experience in similar roles. Join a friendly team dedicated to high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Blood pressure recording
• Recording of ECG
• Perform urinalysis
• Height and weight measurement
• Administering IM, SC, and ID injections
• Undertake ear irrigation
• Specimen collection (e.g. MSSU, EMU, nasal, throat and wound swabs)
• Dressing of wounds, including post-operative wounds.
• Removal of sutures, clips and staples
• Treatment of minor injuries/ailments
• Giving appropriate and predetermined advice and guidance to patients on healthy eating and living
• Childhood immunisations
• Travel health advice including preparation of immunisation schedules and administration of travel vaccines

Skills

Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

Clear, polite telephone manner

Effective time management

Ability to work as a team member and autonomously

Excellent interpersonal skills

Problem solving & analytical skills

Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure

Experience with clinical risk management

EMIS Web / Docman 10 software experience

Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse tojoin a friendly, dynamic and forward-thinking practice located in the East ofSouthampton. We are interested in a candidate who is already a fullyfunctioning nurse. As a Practice Nurse, you will provide care for patients for wound management/injections/baby immunisations/Cervical Screenings/ECG's and Dopplers.

The working pattern is negotiable withopportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Main duties of the job

As a Practice Nurse, you will provide care for patients for wound management/injections/baby immunisations/Cervical Screenings/ECG's and Dopplers.

About us

We are a diverse and friendly team ofGPs, Physician Associate, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners,Paramedic, Social Prescriber, Nurses and HCAs who work together to provide high-qualitycare for 20,000 patients in the Southampton area.

We are a well organised and hardworking team with along-established high QoF achievement. We actively support learning throughregular clinical meetings and teaching events. Everyone has an opportunity tovoice opinions as to how the practice can be improved. The clinical workload isset at a realistic level, with time allocated for admin and additionalresponsibilities.

Our friendly and supportive admin/reception teamassist in reducing admin workload as much as possible. We are also a teachingpractice for allied professional students across Hampshire.

Duringthe COVID pandemic, we have adapted our service to operate a triage system thathelps us identify and prioritise our sickest patients and those who can safelybe re-directed to self-care services. We also launched an online platformcalled eConsult, where patients can contact us digitally. All our rooms areequipped with video calling and double screen monitors.

We are active in the Bitterne Primary Care Network,with a partner having shared responsibility as a clinical director. Our PCNEducation Environment Lead also helps to ensure staff opportunities to meet anypersonal development goals.

Job responsibilities

• Blood pressure recording
• Recording of ECG
• Perform urinalysis
• Height and weight measurement
• Administering IM, SC, and ID injections
• Undertake ear irrigation
• Specimen collection (e.g. MSSU, EMU, nasal, throat and wound swabs)
• Dressing of wounds, including post-operative wounds.
• Removal of sutures, clips and staples
• Treatment of minor injuries/ailments
• Giving appropriate and predetermined advice and guidance to patients on healthy eating and living
• Childhood immunisations
• Travel health advice including preparation of immunisation schedules and administration of travel vaccines
• The Practice Nurse may also be required to assist in other procedures under the supervision of a Doctor and in accordance with the NMC guidelines.
• To report any problems/changes/complaints concerning the practice and the quality of medical care provided to patients to the Practice Manager
• Input and code patient clinical information in to the practice clinical system
• Ensure relevant nGMS prompts for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) are coded and recorded appropriately

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Effective time management
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with clinical risk management
• EMIS Web / Docman 10 software experience
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes

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.