Practice Nurse

We are looking for a Practice Nurse to join our excellent clinical team for 2-3 days per week. We are a long-established, friendly, supportive, and progressive training practice, located in East Finchley, London N2 8BG. We are seeking to appoint a clinically skilled and patient-focused Practice Nurse to join our happy and committed clinical team.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide high quality nursing care to meet the needs of the practice population; which includes treatment, screening, preventative care, patient education, clinical quality systems maintenance; and the supervision of any less qualified clinical colleagues.
• To work in partnership with other clinical, management and administrative colleagues to meet stated practice developmental goals.

About us:

• Practice team: 1 GP Partner, 3 salaried GPs, 1 Registrar, Nurse Associate, HCA and a Clinical Pharmacist.
• High QOF achievers.
• We are part of PCN2 which is a large innovative PCN.

Job responsibilities:

• To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counterparts, escalating to a GP as necessary.
• To undertake cervical cytology sampling, immunisations as outlined by national programmes and local guidelines, working closely with the nursing, clinical and admin team to create systems to identify patients who are in need of such services.
• To provide support to GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc.
• To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.
• To act as a chaperone or similar support for other colleagues as needed.
• To conduct and supervise other colleagues in anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, peak flow and other practice-based tests as needed.
• To carry out health checks in conjunction with national, local and practice initiatives.
• To provide education to patients on practice and local health services, identifying patients at risk of adverse health behaviours.
• To manage and maintain chronic disease registers and work with admin staff to construct and maintain robust call and recall systems.
• To promote the health and wellbeing of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.
• To establish and participate in a robust system of clinical audit in partnership with other clinical and administrative colleagues.
• To stay updated with the latest developments in nursing practice, attending training sessions, workshops, and conferences to enhance professional knowledge and skills.

Person Specification:

• RGN Qualification
• Current NMC registration
• Certificate in General Practice Nursing
• Cervical Screening Taker
• Childhood Immunisations
• Minimum 3 years post registration experience
• Minimum 2 years General Practice Nursing experience
• Clinical skills including cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccinations
• Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
• Experience of nurse-led management of long-term conditions
• Working with Emis Web
• Accredited training in chronic disease management
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.