Permanent Band 6 Practice Nurse post in the nursing team at Oakley Health Group, a large GP practice serving around 29,000 patients. The work covers treatment-room nursing, immunisations, cervical screening, wound care, clinical observations and long-term condition management, under PGDs and PSDs. Hours are up to 37.5 a week, full or part time, with one evening a week until 8pm and Saturday working on a rota. Current NMC registration with a valid PIN and a DBS check are required.
What the job involves
- Provide safe, effective, evidence-based nursing care to patients attending the practice
- Deliver adult and childhood immunisations under current guidance, PGDs and PSDs
- Carry out cervical screening and cytology within current competence
- Perform wound assessment, dressings and routine treatment-room procedures
- Undertake clinical observations and basic clinical assessment
- Recognise deterioration and elevate to a GP, Advanced Practitioner or other clinician
- Support the management and monitoring of patients with long-term conditions, according to competence
- Provide health promotion, screening and preventative healthcare
- Administer and supply medicines safely, assessing vaccination contraindications and maintaining cold-chain procedures
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous clinical records and use clinical IT systems effectively
- Manage and prioritise a varied clinical workload
- Work with GPs, Advanced Practitioners, Healthcare Assistants, Pharmacists and the wider team, supporting students and trainees where trained
Qualifications
- Current NMC registration and valid PIN
- Evidence of continuing professional development and maintained clinical competence
Experience
- Relevant post-registration nursing experience and ability to practise autonomously
- Experience in General Practice, primary care or a transferable clinical setting
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team, with excellent communication
Skills & knowledge
- Competence in cervical screening, immunisations, wound care and treatment-room procedures
- Competence in clinical observations and basic clinical assessment
- Knowledge of infection prevention and control, cold-chain, PGDs, PSDs and vaccination contraindications
- Safe medicines management
- Recognising a deteriorating patient and escalating appropriately
- Good clinical documentation and IT skills
Checks & eligibility
- Appropriate DBS check
Other
- Flexible approach to work
- Ability to work one evening a week until 8.00 pm
- Willingness to work Saturdays on a rota
- Ability to work across the practice sites as required
Nice to have
- General Practice Nursing qualification or relevant postgraduate study
- Practice Supervisor or Mentor qualification
- Chronic disease management, including asthma, COPD, diabetes and cardiovascular disease or hypertension
- Women's health, contraception and sexual health
- Leg ulcer management, ABPI and Doppler assessment, and lower-limb compression therapy
- Spirometry and respiratory assessment
- Travel health and travel vaccinations
- Learning disabilities
What's offered
- Support to develop professionally
- Support for a positive work/life balance
- Continuing professional development and training, including additional training where needed
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
