Practice Nurse

NHS; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the Tees Valley is seeking a professional Practice Nurse for a part-time role (16 hours per week). You will provide clinical nursing care and support patients in a primary care setting. The ideal candidate is a registered general nurse with experience in treatment room duties and chronic disease management. Join our team to help make a difference in patient care.

Qualifications

• Competent in basic nursing duties with commitment to professional development.
• Experience in cervical screening, childhood immunisations, and chronic disease management.
• Current emergency resuscitation training certificate.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for clinical nursing care of the practice population.
• Conduct standard treatment room procedures like dressings and immunisations.
• Record patient information and maintain treatment room records.

Skills

Understanding of confidentiality

Ability to work without supervision

Experience in primary care

Flexibility and cover for colleagues

Education

Registered General Nurse (diploma or degree level)

Tools

EMIS Web Clinical System

Docman 10

Job description

We are a ruralfriendly GMS Practice serving around 5400 patients.

Our team includes 3 GP Partners and 2 PracticeNurses and a HCA. We are looking for a professional, conscientious, and highlyeffective Practice Nurse to join us for 16 hours per week.

Salary dependent on experience.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the clinicalnursing care of the practice population. You will receive referrals from thegeneral practitioner and will be called upon to advise, support and treatpatients who attend the surgery. You will undertake the delivery of nursingcare in general practice as a self directing practitioner, working with the GPsto meet patient needs as appropriate.

About us

AtHartlepool and Stockton Health GP Federation our guiding aim is to improve thehealth and wellbeing of local people. Relationships are key to everything we doand by working with our practice members and their Primary Care Networks, aswell as other local partners, we strive to provide excellent services that helppeople to live their best lives.

As part of this support, we are hosting this job advert on behalf one ofour member practices, Park Lane Surgery.

Job responsibilities

Responsible to:

• The Partners - ClinicalDuties
• The Practice Manager - Non-Clinical Duties

Duties &Responsibilities:

You willcarry out standard Treatment Room procedures:

• Removal of sutures/clips
• Dressings
• Venepuncture
• Standard medicalmeasurements
• Ear syringing
• Immunisation and otherinjections and travel advice
• Urine testing

You willcarry out specialised procedures:

• Sterilisation andinfection control
• Setting up and assistingwith minor operations
• ECGs and ABPMs
• Audiometry
• Long Term ConditionsReviews
• Cervical cytologyscreening
• Cryotherapy
• Primary PreventionReviews including Healthy Heart (and calculating CVD risk using JBS Q-risk)
• Involvement in PublicHealth:- Alcohol Awareness- Smoking Cessation- Weight Management- Cancer Awareness
• Learning Disabilities Reviews

Other Duties

• You may be required toact as a chaperone
• You must maintain thehighest standard of hygiene and the prevention of cross infection to patientsand other members of the Primary Healthcare Team.

Administration

• You will record allrelevant patient information on computer, including monitoring and recordingaccurate data in relation to QOF targets.
• You will complete allnurse related paper work, and ensure that all treatment room records aremaintained efficiently.
• You will assist inorganising preventative measures: eg Flu vaccination, health promotionactivities
• You will liaise withcolleagues to order and maintain stocks of drugs and equipment necessary forthe day to day running of the treatment rooms.
• You will attend staffmeetings, clinical meetings and staff training as appropriate, and beresponsible for your own continued personal development.
• Professional Registrationis your own responsibility and you will be expected to follow the U.K.C.C. Code of Professional Conduct.

You maybe required to perform other related duties from time to time. This job description isnot an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to indicate the main functions and responsibilities of the post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (diploma or degree level).
• Competent in basic nursing duties required for the post with commitment to professional development.
• Qualifications and Experience in:
• Cervical Screening
• Childhood Immunisations
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Health Promotion
• Heart Disease
• Travel Advice

Knowledge and Skills

• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict
• confidentiality.
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload
• priorities.
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to developing nursing skills.
• Able to work in a changing environment.
• Able to work at the desired times.
• Flexible and able to cover for colleague absence through sickness, annual leave or study leave.
• Experience of primary care.
• An understanding of QOF and Read Codes.

Experience

• Experience and competent in General Treatment Room Duties.
• Experience of working in accordance with the UKCC Code of Practice.
• Experience of dealing with the public/patients.
• Experience in Chronic Disease Management (Diabetes, COPD, Asthma,
• Current (within the last 12 months) emergency resuscitation training
• certificate.
• Experience of EMIS Web Clinical System.
• Experience of Docman 10.

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.