Greenmoss Medical Centre, a GP practice in Scholar Green, is recruiting a practice nurse to join its primary healthcare team. The post centres on managing a caseload of patients, covering chronic disease reviews, cytology, wound care and routine and childhood immunisations. The practice is part of the SMASH PCN and has a small team of 21 staff, including three GP partners and an advanced nurse practitioner. Applicants need current NMC registration and at least two years in primary care.
What the job involves
- Routine patient care tasks as directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
- Managing patient caseloads and keeping accurate records
- Chronic disease management for hypertension, IHD, diabetes, asthma and COPD
- Learning disability and SMI reviews, and home visits for CDM checks
- Cervical screening (cytology)
- Routine and childhood immunisations
- Travel clinic assessments and vaccinations
- Wound care, suture and clip removal
- Urinalysis, ECGs and requesting pathology tests
- Chaperoning patients during examinations by other clinicians
- Checking and reordering emergency drugs at both sites
- Lead nurse for infection control
Qualifications
- Qualified nurse
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration
Experience
- Minimum two years in a primary care environment
- Experience working within a nursing team
- Experience dealing with patients
- Experience of prescribing
- Experience of cervical screening, childhood immunisations and health promotion
- Experience of learning disability and SMI reviews, travel advice and immunisations, and chronic disease management
Skills & knowledge
- Computer literacy
- Confident communicator who is flexible and co-operative
- Able to work without direct supervision, prioritise own workload and work under pressure
- Able to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
- Flexible enough to cover for colleague absence
- Strict adherence to confidentiality
Other
- Motivated, forward-thinking problem solver willing to develop nursing skills
- High integrity, loyalty, sensitivity and empathy
Nice to have
- Experience of using EMIS Web
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
