Practice Nurse (Maternity Cover) - Part-Time, Flexible Hours

Watling Street Practice; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave 28 days pro-rata + birthday off

NHS discounts

Wellbeing resources for staff

Job summary

Watling Street Practice is seeking a Practice Nurse for maternity cover on a 15-hour week basis. The role runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with flexibility for other patterns. Fixed-term for 9 months, starting as soon as possible, based in Milton Keynes.

The successful candidate will join a caring, modern practice with a focus on patient-centred care and teamwork across three sites in the Watling Street Primary Care Network.

Qualifications

• Experience as Treatment Room Nurse.
• Dressing wounds (including legs).
• Baby immunisations and smear experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing services including treatment, screening and minor procedures.
• Run clinics including vaccinations and contraception reviews.
• Undertake diagnostic tests (blood glucose, urine analysis).
• Collect and dispatch laboratory specimens (blood, urine, swabs).
• Provide wound care and removal of sutures; administer immunisations.
• Provide telephone advice and occasional home visits within competence.
• Support a positive, patient-centred culture within the practice.
• Support the whole practice team.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Compassionate care

Clinical nursing

Wound care

Vaccinations

Immunisations

Job description

Watling Street Practice is seeking a Practice Nurse for maternity cover on a 15-hour week basis. The role runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with flexibility for other patterns. Fixed-term for 9 months, starting as soon as possible, based in Milton Keynes.

The successful candidate will join a caring, modern practice with a focus on patient-centred care and teamwork across three sites in the Watling Street Primary Care Network.