Practice Nurse post at Fenham Hall Medical Group, a GP practice, covering maternity leave for six months. The role centres on long-term condition management, cervical cytology, child immunisations, contraception and wound care, with some support for QOF work, audits and safeguarding. It is part-time over two days, with Mondays and Tuesdays preferred and flexibility possible, in a teaching practice serving around 10,800 patients. Registration as an RGN and primary care experience are required.
What the job involves
- Monitor and manage long-term conditions such as diabetes, asthma, COPD and hypertension
- Carry out cervical cytology smear tests
- Give routine, child and travel immunisations and vaccinations
- Provide contraception services
- Carry out wound care and remove sutures and clips
- Perform venepuncture, bloods, swabs, urinalysis, ECGs and blood pressure checks
- Request pathology tests such as urine cultures and swabs
- Give general health advice and routine injections
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous patient records on S1
- Chaperone patients examined by other clinicians
- Support QOF/PEP achievement and take part in the surgery's MDT
- Order stock and vaccinations, maintain equipment and treatment rooms, and follow infection control
What’s required
Qualifications
- RGN
Experience
- Experience of working in primary care
Skills & knowledge
- Managing and educating patients with chronic diseases
- Childhood immunisations
- Cytology and women's health
- Travel health
- Sexual health
- Basic IT skills
Other
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Enthusiastic team player
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
