Practice Nurse - Enhanced Access in Skelmersdale

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, as a 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 care organisation, 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 it transitioned to become a GP Federation to support and provide services for its practices and to offer a vehicle that local GPs had an opportunity to bid for, and provide, innovative primary care services in their local area. We are a not-for-profit organisation, which means that all the money we generate through service contracts is invested back into providing patient care.

Job responsibilities:

For further details please see full Job Description document on NHS job listing for Practice Nurse Position.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: NMC Registration.
• Experience: Experience of working within a team working autonomously in a community setting.
• Education: Evidence of further development of own clinical practice.
• Understand the importance of evidence-based practice and ability to record accurate clinical notes.
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs.
• Experience of General Practice/Primary Care.
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance.
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
• Driving Licence access to independent travel.

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.