This Practice Nurse post sits in the nursing team of College Street Medical Practice, a small training practice with around 6,000 patients. The core of the work is clinical care: immunisations, screening including cytology, chronic disease reviews, phlebotomy and wound care. The practice works closely with GPs, a pharmacist and a healthcare assistant team, and offers a route to further career development within the practice. Applicants need to be registered nurses with prior experience as one; primary care experience is preferred.
What the job involves
- Routine and childhood immunisations, plus travel vaccinations
- Health promotion and screening, including cervical cytology
- Chronic disease reviews and management (COPD, asthma, diabetes, hypertension) in line with NICE guidance
- Learning disability annual reviews
- Contraception and sexual health services
- Treatment room work: dressings, wound care, removing clips and sutures
- Venepuncture and occasional phlebotomy
- ECGs, blood pressure checks and spirometry
- Assisting doctors with coil and implant insertion
- INR monitoring (Star trained)
- Reporting safeguarding concerns and auditing infection control when asked
- Working with other health professionals and managing own time and workload
What’s required
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Experience
- Experience working as a registered nurse
Skills & knowledge
- Good communicator
- Able to work autonomously and within a team
- Confident and able to work under pressure
- Flexible and a good team worker
- Excellent timekeeping
- Self-aware and understanding of own limitations
Other
- Commitment to ongoing professional and practice development
Nice to have
- Chronic disease management qualifications
- Previous GPN experience
- INR experience
- Experience working in a primary care setting
What’s offered
- Supportive partnership
- Support and training for professional development
- Option to further your career within the practice
- Salary negotiable depending on skills and experience
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
