Practice Nurse in Stourbridge

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients. This includes management of long-term conditions, wound care management, patient health checks, health screening, travel health, cervical screening, and adult and child immunisations. The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately.

Main duties of the job

• Management of Long-Term Conditions: Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans.
• Therapeutic Monitoring: Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using a holistic patient-centred approach. Recognising abnormalities and identifying the impact of treatment, implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
• Wound Care Management: Assessing routine wounds including trauma and prescribing to support good wound management in complex situations.
• Patient Health Checks: Identifying significant abnormalities and obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach, identifying appropriate health promotion issues.
• Risk Assessment: Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems).
• Health Screening: Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. women's and men's health, sexual health, older people). Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate.
• Travel Health: Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines. Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.
• Immunisation (Adult and Child): Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously.

About us

Wordsley Green Surgery is a practice with 5 GP Partners and 5 Salaried GPs working with a multi-disciplinary team. There is excellent nursing and administrative support. We are high QOF and quality target achievers. We offer a wide range of services, including advanced minor surgery and ICB commissioned community clinics for Gynaecology and Vasectomy, supported by the nursing team. The systems currently used in the practice are EMIS Web, Docman and Accurx for online consultations.

Job responsibilities

• Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care.
• Cervical Screening.
• Wound care management and removal of sutures/clips.
• Management of Long Term Conditions.
• Travel Advice.
• ECGs.
• Routine immunisations for both adults and children, for example: child immunisations, travel vaccines, influenza, pneumococcal, shingles, RSV etc. (list not exhaustive).
• Assist with all minor surgery procedures, gynae and vasectomy clinic when required.
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs.
• Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to GPs as appropriate.
• Be responsible for the monthly drug checks, including the emergency drugs.
• Give injections as prescribed by the Doctors, for example: prostap, zoladex, testosterone, depo-provera, vitamin B12 etc. (list not exhaustive).
• Pill checks.
• Other tasks will include maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs, audits, maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required, chaperoning and assisting patients who are being examined by another clinician, maintaining general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms, participation in administrative systems in the Practice.
• At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records.
• A duty to advise the Practice Manager or partners in Practice Manager's absence of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks.
• Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
• Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post.

Person Specification

• Qualifications: First level nurse with relevant nursing degree. Professional registration with the NMC - Nursing & Midwifery Council. Speciality in diabetes or respiratory is desirable.
• Experience: Preferable experience of working in a GP practice.
• 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.