Practice Nurse

Linthorpe Surgery; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare practice in Tees Valley is looking for an experienced Practice Nurse to join their primary healthcare team. The role includes providing chronic disease management, assisting GPs, and performing various nursing duties such as immunisations and wound care. Candidates must be a Registered Nurse with experience in a General Practice setting. This opportunity offers the chance to work in a supportive environment with a committed team.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Registered General Nurse with relevant skills.
• Experience of working within a General Practice.
• Practical experience of working in a team.

Responsibilities

• Assist in routine tasks related to patient care.
• Provision of chronic disease management clinics.
• Maintain accurate records of patient care.

Skills

Vaccinations & Immunisations

Cervical Screening

Wound Care

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered Nurse

Member of a professional body

Qualified in Diabetes management

Qualified in COPD management

Job description

We are a large forward thinking, innovative, training practice based in Middlesbrough and are looking for an experienced Practice Nurse to join our primary health care team.

Our clinical team consists of GP Partners, Salaried GPs, Trainee GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomists.

If you are looking for a new opportunity and would like to join our fantastic team please please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate would be a fully qualified Registered General Nurse with the following skills:

Essential: Vaccinations & Immunisations; Cervical Screening; Wound Care

About us

We are a large GP practice in Middlesbrough with 9 GP partners, 5 salaried GPs, 1 NursePractitioner, 4 Practice Nurses, 2 HCAs, 2 phlebotomists. We have a superb group of highly committed and enthusiasticadministrative and reception staff.

Our practice is part of Holgate Primary Care Network who support our practice, with roles including physiotherapy, pharmacists, mental health practitioners and our centralised urgent care hub team.

We're situated close to the town centrewith a list size of over 20,000 patients and operate from purpose built premises inLinthorpe and a branch surgery situated in the North Ormesby Health Village.

Job responsibilities

Job summary:

The practice nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare teamproviding Personal Medical Services to the patients of the practice.

Job responsibilities:

• Assist in and perform routinetasks related to patient care as directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
• Provision of chronic disease management clinics
• Cytology
• Removal of Sutures
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• Provision of general nursingduties, e.g. dressings, ear syringing, etc.
• Routine immunisations / Childhoodimmunisations
• Assisting GPs with minor surgery
• Requesting pathology tests, forexample urine culture, swabs
• Contraception
• Following agreed clinicalprotocols with referral to nurse manager or GPs as appropriate
• Maintaining and cleaningequipment used by the nurses
• Chaperoning and assistingpatients who are being examined by another clinician.
• Maintain general tidiness andcleanliness of room
• Ordering of Health PromotionLiterature
• Participation in administrativesystems in the Practice
• At all times there will be a needto maintain accurate records
• A duty to advise senior nurses ofpotential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
• Attend and participate in anymeetings when required.

Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post

Person Specification

Experience

• Practical experience of working in a team
• Experience of using own initiative
• Experience of working within a General Practice

Skills

• Time management and the ability to work to deadlines
• Interpersonal skills

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Member of a professional body
• Qualified and experienced in Vaccinations & Immunisations, Cervical Screening and Wound Care
• Qualified and experienced in Diabetes and COPD

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.