The Lakes Medical Practice is recruiting a General Practice Nurse to deliver nursing care across all ages in a busy primary care setting. The work centres on managing long-term conditions, health promotion, vaccination and screening, and treating minor illnesses and injuries, often through nurse-led clinics. The post also includes working with GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team, contributing to quality improvement and mentoring junior staff and students. Applicants need a registered first level nurse qualification and NMC registration.
What the job involves
- Manage long-term conditions through individual treatment plans, including reviewing medication for effectiveness
- Run nurse-led clinics and deliver treatment for minor illnesses and injuries
- Deliver health promotion, preventative care and self-care support
- Implement vaccination and immunisation programmes for adults and children
- Support women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations
- Provide opportunistic wound care
- Recognise, assess and refer patients with mental health needs
- Work with GPs, the doctor team and external professionals on delegated tasks and shared care
- Apply infection control and manage safe storage, disposal and controlled drug records
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous patient records and take part in audit and quality governance
- Mentor junior staff and students and support colleagues' development
- Take part in complaints management, incident learning and safeguarding
Qualifications
- Registered first level nurse
- Relevant nursing or health degree
- Clinical supervision training and experience
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of managing long-term conditions and health promotion strategies
- Knowledge of local and national health policy, wider health economy, clinical governance and patient group directions
- Clinical leadership and change management skills, including supporting lifestyle change
- Written and verbal communication, including delivering difficult messages to patients and families
- Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
- IT skills
Other
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Flexible, enthusiastic team player
- Ability to work across boundaries
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
Nice to have
- Experience in diabetes management
- Knowledge of current diabetic management
- Independent or supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
What’s offered
- Continuous professional development
- Training opportunities and career progression
- Support for staff wellbeing and work-life balance
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
