Weymouth Bay Medical Practice, a GP practice with three surgeries in Weymouth, is seeking a part-time Practice Nurse to deliver nursing care for its patient list of 26,500. The work centres on long-term condition monitoring, health promotion and screening, alongside vaccinations, wound care and cervical cytology. Hours are flexible within 10 to 25 a week, and the practice is a training site with a team of 22 GP partners. Applicants must be registered adult nurses and hold membership of a professional body.
What the job involves
- Deliver practice nursing care to the practice population, working autonomously and as part of a team with senior nurses
- Monitor and manage long-term conditions, including QOF reviews, and support patients' self-care
- Deliver health promotion, prevention and screening, including NHS health checks and national screening programmes
- Give injections and vaccinations, including travel vaccinations, and run immunisation programmes with safe storage and cold chain checks
- Provide wound care, dressings, suture and clip removal, Doppler assessments and multilayer bandaging
- Run a cervical cytology sampling programme and audit at least 20 smears a year
- Respond to complex, urgent and emergency situations, including seizure, collapse, cardiac arrest and anaphylaxis
- Keep computerised patient records on SystmOne using correct Read codes
- Work in integrated multidisciplinary teams, make referrals and liaise with local support services
- Assist with minor surgery, carry out venepuncture and ECGs
- Prescribe medicines where the nurse holds a recognised prescribing qualification
- Mentor new and junior colleagues and students, and help with ordering and checking supplies
What’s required
Qualifications
- Membership of a professional body
Registration & licences
- Registered adult nurse
Experience
- Nursing experience
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of long-term condition needs and health promotion strategies
- Awareness of clinical governance in primary care and the accountability of each role in a nurse-led service
- Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- IT skills
Other
- Effective organisational and time management
- Gets on well with people at all levels
- Flexibility, including for cover and core hours
- Enthusiasm and a positive attitude
- Team player
- Positive role model
Nice to have
- Experience in primary care
- Specialist Practitioner qualification
- Diploma in chronic disease
- Clinical skills in cervical cytology, immunisation, ear care, minor surgery and wound care
- Knowledge of local public health issues and the determinants of health
- Awareness of local and national health policy and the wider health economy
- Uses initiative
What’s offered
- NHS or NEST pension
- Pay placement negotiated on skills and experience
- Hours and working pattern can be negotiated
- Induction, training and support to achieve competence
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