Practice Nurse - Talybont Surgery

GP Practice; Pontarddulais; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Talybont Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our dedicated team and deliver high-quality nursing care in a busy primary care setting.

You will administer injections, provide wound care, smear tests, and monitor chronic disease management while collaborating with GPs and other health professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care, all while upholding practice protocols and standards.

Qualifications

• Administer injections and childhood immunisations, travel vaccines and other injections.
• Provide wound care, manage dressings and refer to secondary care when appropriate.
• Perform smear tests as part of cervical screening.
• Offer advice and monitoring for chronic disease management.
• Communicate with other health professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care.
• Maintain compliance with practice protocols, guidelines and national clinical standards.

Responsibilities

• Administer injections and immunisations.
• Provide wound care and dressings.
• Carry out smear tests as part of routine screening.
• Monitor and support chronic disease management.
• Liaise with GPs, pharmacists and other professionals to coordinate care.
• Uphold practice protocols and national clinical standards.

Skills

Injections administration

Wound care

Smear tests

Chronic disease management

Interprofessional communication

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our dedicated, friendly team at Talybont Surgery. The Practice Nurse will provide high-quality nursing care to patients in a primary care setting.

• Administer injections, including childhood immunisations, travel vaccines and many others
• Provide wound care, managing dressings and referring into secondary care where appropriate
• Provide smear checks
• Provide advice and monitoring for chronic disease management
• Communicate with other health professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care
• Maintain compliance with practice protocols, guidelines, and national clinical standards.

We are also a training practice and are actively involved in supporting the development of future clinicians. We currently host two GP Registrars as well as undergraduate medical students, and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to a supportive teaching and learning environment within the practice.

Talybont Surgery is a friendly, progressive, partner-led practice committed to delivering high-quality patient care within a supportive multidisciplinary environment.

Our clinical team currently consists of six GPs (including four salaried and two partners), two GP Registrars, two Prescribing Pharmacists, a Mental Health Practitioner, a Womens Health Specialist Nurse, two Practice Nurses and a Healthcare Assistant (HCA). The clinical team is supported by an experienced and friendly administrative, reception and management team.