Woodlands Surgery is a GP practice recruiting a nurse to its nursing team, working alongside GPs and reception. Duties centre on booked appointments: dressings, injections, vaccinations, cervical screening, blood tests and long-term condition checks. Fixed sessions fall on Monday afternoon and evening, Thursday morning and Friday, with up to full-time hours possible. Current NMC registration is required, and training is offered for skills not yet held.
What the job involves
- Deliver safe, compassionate nursing care through booked appointments, working independently within competence
- Treatment room nursing, including wound assessment and dressings, venepuncture, blood pressure checks, ECGs and urinalysis
- Adult and childhood immunisations and seasonal vaccination programmes, including eligibility checks and vaccine storage
- Cervical screening, contraceptive injections and other women's health procedures
- Monitor and manage long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension, where trained and agreed
- Administer medicines safely under Patient Group Directions or other legal authority, and respond to adverse reactions
- Maintain accurate, contemporaneous clinical records with coding, and complete follow-up administration promptly
- Recognise abnormal findings, deterioration and medical emergencies, and escal ...
- Provide health promotion, lifestyle advice and patient education to support self-management
- Follow infection prevention and control procedures, and keep clinical areas clean, stocked and safe
- Manage personal workload, share nursing workload fairly and raise pressures with the appropriate manager
- Support healthcare assistants, nursing associates and students within competence and responsibility
What’s required
Qualifications
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Appropriate training and competency for the clinical procedures undertaken
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration with a professional scope of practice appropriate to the role
Experience
- Experience of delivering direct patient care and nursing procedures relevant to the role
- Experience of working collaboratively within a healthcare team
- Experience of maintaining accurate and timely clinical records
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to recognise clinical deterioration and seek appropriate advice or support
Nice to have
- Experience of working in general practice or primary care
- Cervical screening qualification or competency
- Training and competency in childhood and adult immunisations
- Experience of adult or childhood immunisation programmes
- Wound care experience or relevant training
- Long-term condition monitoring or management experience or training
- Experience using EMIS Web or a similar clinical system
- Experience of cervical screening
What’s offered
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Support for appropriate training and professional development
- Individual development plan where needed
- Paid coffee break and free coffee
- Possibility of full-time hours for the right candidate
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
