Practice Nurse

NHS; St. Ives; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Spinney Surgery, a part of the St Ives PCN, is seeking an enthusiastic practice nurse to join their friendly nursing team. This role involves managing a varied workload with patients while offering full training and mentoring to new staff. Candidates can apply for full or part-time positions and must be registered nurses with relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with sufficient demonstrable experience post qualification.
• Experience in a busy Primary Care Setting.
• Ability to manage chronic disease within general practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide contraception and family planning services.
• Conduct long term condition reviews and vaccinations.
• Assist in health promotion and support individual patient needs.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication

Patient care

Teamwork

Education

Registered nurse qualification

GCSE A-C in English and Maths

Tools

System 1

Job description

The Spinney Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic practice nurse to join our friendly, hardworking Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

The Spinney Surgery has approximately 11,000 patients from wide variety of backgrounds all with differing needs. Our practice nurses have a varied and interesting workload, dealing with patients face to face, via telephone or occasionally video consultation. We are keen to hear from those seeking both full and part-time hours for this role.

About us

We are a large practice and part of the St Ives PCN. We are a supportive team which offers a happy and friendly environment to work in. Team work is at the heart of our surgery and as such new members of staff are given full training and mentoring.

Job responsibilities

Our Practice Nurses have a busy working day, with a wide variety of task to keep the day interesting:-

• Contraception and family planning
• Long term condition reviews
• Smears
• Injections/Vaccinations
• Dopplers

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with sufficient demonstrable experience post qualification.
• GCSE GRADE A- C in English and Maths.

Experience

• Experience working in a busy Primary Care Setting.
• Experience of chronic disease management within general practice.
• Ability to identify own learning needs and those of other members of the practice nurse team.
• Ability to crucially review and communicate clinical information to both patients and health care professionals.
• Knowledge of Patient Group Directives and associated policy.
• Sound knowledge and experience in using of clinical system eg System 1.
• Confident, positive attitude toward the responsibilities of the role.
• Methodical approach
• Able to take proactive approach towards health promotion in the practice to support patients in accordance with their individual needs and to promote good health to the wider practice population.
• Flexibility to provide cover for absences of other members of the practice nurse team and to attend training sessions outside normal working hours.

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.