Practice Nurse - Maternity Cover - Alliance Teaching Practices

The Methodist Church in Britain; Daimler Green; Presencial; GBP 30.000 - 42.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Enhanced maternity leave

Blue light discount card

Employee assistance 24/7

Fleet salary-sacrificed car leasing

Descripción de la vacante

The Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is seeking a maternity cover practice nurse for nine months to provide direct patient care including long-term condition management, contraception, immunisations, cervical screening and wound care. The role includes home visits for patients unable to attend the surgery.

The postholder will work largely independently alongside GPs and a multidisciplinary team. NMC registration as a first level nurse with post-registration primary care experience is required.

Formación

• Relevant nursing or health degree
• NMC registration required as a first level nurse
• Post-registration primary care experience preferred

Responsabilidades

• Provide direct practice nursing care to patients, working independently
• Participate in management of long-term conditions according to explicit protocols
• Provide contraceptive care, family planning advice and injections
• Administer childhood immunisations, travel vaccinations and other vaccines
• Perform cervical cytology screening and opportunistic men's health screening
• Undertake wound care and wound management
• Take clinical measurements and administer injections
• Provide health promotion and self-care teaching
• Support patients in their homes who cannot attend the surgery
• Lead on infection control and maintain treatment room equipment
• Keep contemporaneous clinical records in line with NMC guidance
• Contribute to audits, research and service improvement

Conocimientos

Independent working

Home visits

Long-term condition management

Vaccinations

Contraception care

Wound care

Clinical governance

Audits & practice improvement

Educación

NMC registration as first level nurse

Descripción del empleo

Maternity cover for a practice nurse in the primary care team of the Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance, running for nine months. The post centres on direct patient care, including long-term condition management, contraception, immunisations, cervical screening and wound care. The postholder works largely independently alongside GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team, and also visits patients at home who cannot attend the surgery. Fit depends on NMC registration as a first level nurse with post-registration primary care experience.

What the job involves

• Provide direct practice nursing care to patients, working independently
• Participate in management of long-term conditions according to explicit protocols
• Provide contraceptive care, family planning advice and IM contraceptive injections
• Administer childhood immunisations, travel vaccinations and other vaccinations
• Perform cervical cytology screening and opportunistic men's health screening
• Undertake wound care and wound management
• Take clinical measurements (blood pressure, blood glucose, ECGs) and give subcutaneous and IM injections
• Provide health promotion and self-care teaching on weight, smoking and alcohol
• Support patients in their own homes who cannot attend the surgery
• Lead on infection control, maintain treatment room equipment and manage stock, reporting shortages and faults
• Keep contemporaneous clinical records in line with NMC guidance
• Take part in audit, research and service improvement, advising on innovative practice

Qualifications

• Relevant nursing or health degree

Registration & licences

• NMC registration as a first level nurse

Experience

• Post-registration nursing experience
• Experience of working in community or primary care
• Management of long-term conditions
• Involvement in implementing and using protocols and clinical guidelines

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of long-term condition needs and health promotion strategies
• Understanding of accountability in a nurse-led service
• Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care
• Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct and other guidance
• Escalating concerns appropriately

Nice to have

• Mentor or teaching qualification
• Clinical supervision training
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards one
• Participation in quality initiatives such as clinical benchmarking
• Experience of using EMIS and Docman
• Awareness of local and national health policy
• Awareness of issues within the wider health economy

What’s offered

• 27 days annual leave for full-time staff, plus bank holidays
• Enhanced sick pay policy
• NHS pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Paternity leave
• Blue light discount card, reimbursed after probation
• Employee assistance network available 365 days a year, 24/7
• NHS Fleet Solutions salary sacrifice car leasing scheme