Practice Nurse in Newport Pagnell

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team for 30 hours per week. We are looking for experience in chronic disease management, ideally respiratory or CVD.

Main duties of the job:

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients' health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long-term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About us:

The doctors and staff at Newport Pagnell Medical Centre are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. We run many clinics for the management of long-term conditions such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal, postnatal care, minor surgery and childhood vaccinations.

Job responsibilities:

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

Qualifications:

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• 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.