Salaried lead practice nurse post at Oakley Medical Practice, part of the South and East Leeds GP Group and serving around 5,500 patients. The work centres on long-term condition management for asthma, COPD, diabetes, coronary heart disease and hypertension, alongside health screening, immunisations, wound care and phlebotomy. The role sits within a multidisciplinary primary care team, with scope for non-medical prescribing and flexible working across sites. Current NMC registration and a chronic disease diploma, or a commitment to work towards one, decide fit.
What the job involves
- Manage long-term conditions including asthma, COPD, diabetes, coronary heart disease and hypertension, and deliver health screening and NHS health checks
- Deliver routine childhood and adult immunisations and order vaccine stock
- Provide wound and ulcer care, Doppler assessment and suture removal
- Provide contraception advice, device fitting and removal, and cervical cytology, and assist GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Carry out phlebotomy, venepuncture, ECGs, urinalysis and new patient medicals
- Request pathology tests such as bloods, urine cultures and swabs
- Administer medicines under non-medical prescribing, patient specific direction or patient group direction frameworks
- Provide travel health advice
- Chaperone patients during examinations by other clinicians
- Keep accurate patient records to NMC standards and share information appropriately with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team
- Follow agreed clinical protocols, referring to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate, and undertake home visits when required
- Take part in quality improvement, clinical audit and practice meetings
What’s required
Qualifications
- First level degree in nursing
- Diploma in chronic disease management (respiratory, diabetes, CHD), or willingness to work towards one
- Qualifications or signed competencies in phlebotomy, immunisation, wound management, health screening and travel health, or willingness to work towards them
Registration & licences
- Registered general nurse with current NMC PIN
Experience
- Working in a multidisciplinary team
- Multi-skilled approach to chronic disease management
- Using electronic healthcare records systems
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of the general practice environment
- Knowledge of quality assurance processes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to work alone without direct supervision when appropriate
- Able to report on autonomous clinical decisions
- IT skills
Other
- Ability to work core hours
- Excellent team player
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
Nice to have
- Experience working with primary care team members such as community pharmacists and dietitians
- Minor illness management
- Triage in healthcare
- Participation in research
- Knowledge of current national developments and trends in healthcare
- Knowledge of the audit process in healthcare
- Awareness of issues across the wider health economy
- Ability to work flexibly to provide cover
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
