Senior Practice Nurse

Pin Point Recruitment; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A small Medical Practice in Leatherhead is seeking a Senior Practice Nurse to join their supportive team. The role involves delivering high standards of patient care, managing chronic conditions, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Candidates must be a Registered General Nurse with experience in community care and a qualification in cytology or family planning.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Wellness Benefits – Private Healthcare

Qualifications

• Currently registered with the NMC.
• Competent with adult and child immunisations.
• Experience in community/primary care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standard of patient care.
• Respond effectively to patient needs.
• Promote healthy lifestyles.

Skills

Clinical skills

Patient care

Health promotion

Communication

Education

Registered General Nurse

Qualification in cytology or family planning

Job description

Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse

Job Type: Permanent

Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse

Leatherhead KT22 7PZ

Our client is a small Medical Practice of around 6000 patients across 2 sites. They are a close knit and supportive team who are now looking to recruit a Practice/ Primary Healthcare Nurse who is interested in supporting their local population.

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse to join their team and help work with the practice to achieve their overall goal of supporting Health and Wellbeing around the Leatherhead area.

Key Responsibilities:

· Deliver a high standard of patient care using high level autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base

· Deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting. Responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.

· Promote healthy lifestyles and participate in national immunisation and screening programmes.

· Enable patients to manage their long term health care needs and to achieve their full potential in terms of independent living.

· Actively encourage and facilitate choices for patients by providing health promotion during routine screening procedures e.g: new patient health checks, cervical cytology and long term conditions management.

· Communicate complex information to patients and relatives where needed with a variety of diverse needs, using negotiation and persuasive skills to motivate.

· Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure the National Service Frameworks are being delivered.

Clinical Responsibilities:

Undertake clinical duties with relevant training in some or all of the areas

· Adult and paediatric immunisations

· Smears

· Management of chronic conditions

· Vaccinations

Essential Qualifications:

· Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the NMC)

· Qualification in cytology and or family planning

· Competent with adult and child immunisations

· Experience of working in community/primary care

· Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up to date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of practice nurse role.

· Experience of working across organisational boundaries

· within health and social care.

· Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of

· own clinical practice.

· Enhanced paternity/ maternity leave

· Wellness Beneifts – Private Healthcare