Practice Nurse

We are looking to recruit to our practice nursing team. This is a great opportunity to join our friendly clinical team in looking after our practice population of approx. 8900 patients. This is a varied and challenging role and will include a wide range of treatment room consultations and chronic disease management. Competitive rates of pay commensurate with experience.

Main duties of the job:

• Providing a full range of treatment room services to our patients.
• Potential involvement in the delivery of chronic disease management and/or minor illness services depending on experience and/or interest in these areas.

About us:

We are a dedicated team providing high quality general medical services to our growing patient population. Our clinical team, which is led by our GP partners, is supported by fast-acting reception/dispensary/administrative and management teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Accountable professionally for individual actions.
• Communicate with any other members of staff concerned with patient care, giving appropriate regard to patient confidentiality.
• Care of patients ultimately rests with the general practitioner with whom they are registered.

Summary of responsibilities:

• General treatment room duties and procedures.
• Chronic disease management.
• Collection of pathological specimens.
• Investigatory procedures at the request of the GP.
• Preventative procedures including immunisations (child immunisations and travel vaccines) and cervical cytology.
• Assisting GPs with clinical procedures when required (including chaperone duties).
• Care of equipment and maintenance of stock levels.
• To attend patients in their home at the request of the GP, or in an emergency situation.

Key administrative duties will include:

• Maintaining clear and accurate notes of consultations within the computerised patient record.
• Co-operating in practice research projects as required.
• Participating in clinical audit activities.
• Attending practice meetings as appropriate.
• Participating in education as deemed useful or necessary and sharing this learning with other team members.
• Participating in in-house training as required.
• Participating in stock approval and ordering of supplies.

This is a summary of key tasks and is not intended as a comprehensive description of duties of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties which are not specifically mentioned above. Any significant changes to this job description will be made in consultation with the post holder.

Qualifications:

• Good standard of general education.
• Registered Nurse.
• Membership of professional body.
• Diabetes/Asthma/COPD Diploma.

Experience:

• Previous experience of working in General Practice.
• Chronic Disease Management.

Skills and Personal Attributes:

• Good Communication Skills.
• Good Interpersonal Skills.
• Time Management Skills.
• Flexible.
• Reliable.
• Self-motivated.
• Good team worker.
• EMIS clinical system.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.