Practice Nurse - Smears Only - St Helen's Division

NHS; St Helens; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in St Helens is looking for a dedicated Practice Nurse to join their team. This part-time role involves providing high-quality patient care and performing smear tests. Candidates should have experience in general practice and a passion for patient-centric solutions. The role offers competitive pay at £22.46 per hour with additional benefits including enhanced family policies and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Minimum 27 days annual leave

Employee discounts and benefits

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of General Practice Experience.
• At least 1 year of recent community nursing experience.
• Experience with cervical cytology.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based practice for chronic patients.
• Provide preventative health care.
• Support health promotion strategies.

Skills

Clinical leadership skills

Cervical cytology

Immunisation and vaccination

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Mentorship

Job description

Practice Nurse - Smears Only - St Helen's Division

Modality Partnership St Helens Division have 12 month fixed-term vacancy for a part-time (8 hours a week) seeking a skilled and compassionate, experienced General Practice Nurse to join our healthcare team. As a Practice Nurse, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and assisting in carrying out Smear Tests. If you are passionate about helping others and have a strong knowledge of anatomy, we encourage you to apply. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £22.46 per hour.

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering high quality patient care and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.

As an employee with us you can benefit from

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

The role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with a chronic condition, and the provision of preventative health care to the practice population. for the care delivered to their patients, demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making in the management of patients.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job; the job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

About us

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of nursing in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you have a passion for supporting patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily and apply principles of self-care. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification

Skills

• Clinical leadership skills.
• Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination, ear care, minor surgery.
• Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle.
• Communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting.

Personal Qualities

• Professional approach to work.
• Good telephone manner.
• Strong team player.
• Smart appearance.
• Exercises tact and discretion at all times.
• Demonstrates initiative to handle any unforeseen events during a shift.
• Demonstrates flexibility towards new working practices and towards working hours.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of management of patients with chronic conditions.
• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in primary care.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
• Knowledge of local and national health policy.
• Wider health economy awareness.
• Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
• Knowledge of public health issues.
• Ability to identify determinants on health in the local area.
• Knowledge of public health issues in the area.

Experience

• Smear Experience.
• Minimum 1 years General Practice Experience
• Minimum 2 years post-registration experience.
• At least 1 years recent community nursing experience.
• Experience of nurse-led management of chronic conditions.
• Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Experience of quality initiatives such as clinical benchmarking.
• Clinical supervision training and experience

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.