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Job summary
A healthcare provider in Westhoughton seeks a qualified nursing professional to assist in patient care tasks, including immunisations and routine health checks. The ideal candidate should hold post qualifications in women's health and possess quality care skills. Responsibilities include supporting GPs, maintaining cleanliness in treatment rooms, and participating in administrative tasks. This role requires teamwork and effective communication in a busy practice environment.
Qualifications
- Experience in providing care for patients.
- Smear trained.
- Ability to maintain and clean equipment.
Responsibilities
- Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care.
- Travel Clinic duties.
- Request pathology tests.
- Participate in administrative systems.
Skills
Education
- Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed by senior nursing staff/GPs/Management
- Cytology
- Travel Clinic
- ECGs
- Asthma/Peak Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Routine immunisations/Childhood immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Assisting GPs with coil fittings
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Interest in Diabetes or Coronary Heart Disease and Contraception.
- Following agreed clinical protocols
- Other tasks will include:
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records
- A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- Requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Unsworth Group is an established, 20,500 patient list sized practice, based over 2 sites within Bolton.
We have a dedicated nursing team with multiple roles within it and a wealth of experience.
- post quals in; women's health, prescribing
- - Smear trained
- -Ability to provide quality care
- -Good interpersonal and communication skills
- -Team player
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.
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