Are you a passionate and experienced Practice Nurse seeking a challenging and rewarding role within a dynamic primary care setting? We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our Enhanced Access Service team as a Practice Nurse.
Main duties of the job
- Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
- Request pathology services as required.
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients into secondary /specialist care as required.
- Maintain accurate clinical records
- Ensure read codes are used effectively.
- Deliver well woman clinics.
- Deliver well man clinics.
- Carry out cytology screening including smears.
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within scope of practice).
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
About us
Employment will be with OWLS CIC Ltd West Lancashire GP Federation, asa central function to the GP Practices and Primary Care Network (PCN)members.OWLS CIC is a small GP owned and led not-for-profit primary careorganisation, run by GPs and health professionals.OWLS was founded in the 90s by a small group of General Practitioners,with the main aim of ensuring high quality out of hours services. In 2017 ittransitioned to become a GP Federation to support and provide servicesfor its practices and to offer a vehicle that local GPs had an opportunity tobid for, and provide, innovative primary care services in their local area.We are a not-for-profit organisation, which means that all the money wegenerate through service contracts is invested back into providing patientcare
Job responsibilities
For further details please see full Job Description document on NHS joblisting for Practice Nurse Position.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- NMC Registration.
Experience
- Experience of working within a team working autonomously in a
- Education.
- Evidence of further development of own clinical practice.
- Understand the importance of evidence-based practice
- ability to record accurate clinical notes.
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when
- to refer to GPs.
- Working within a community setting
- Experience of General Practice/ Primary Care Experience.
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
- Driving Licence access to independent travel.
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.
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Contact Details:
Out of Hours West Lancashire CIC Ltd Recruitment Team
