Primary Care Practice Nurse

We are currently looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, flexible and reliable Primary Care Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team.

We are looking for a Nurse who has previous experience of working in primary care as a Practice Nurse and unfortunately, we are unable to accept any applications who do not have this experience.

Hours:We are looking for 21 hours a week but will consider up to 37.5 hours a week, within the Practice opening times of 07.30-18:30 (Monday-Friday) with enhanced hours on a Thursday evening until 8:00pm.

Salary depending on experience

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Practice Nurse to join our established and collaborative Nursing team at our forward thinking and supportive practice. We have a dynamic team of nurses, healthcare assistants and phlebotomist providing chronic disease management and enhanced services to our 14,500 patient list.

We are looking for:

• Proven experience in a Primary Care setting
• Competence in chronic disease management
  , specifically in Diabetes or Asthma (minimum requirement)
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and willingness to undertake further training as needed
• A team player who is proactive and adaptable to the evolving challenges or Primary Care

Please see the job specification for further details of requirements. You should be keen to keep yourself updated in the new challenges facing primary care and be prepared to undertake further training as required for the position.

To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.

The duties will include but not limited to day to day primary care nursing such as phlebotomy, ECGs, wound care, adult and child immunisations, B12 injections, BP monitoring as well as Enhanced Practice Nurse skills in chronic disease management, cervical screening and compression dressings.

The post holder has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults in line with the NHS Trusts safeguarding policies and procedures.

They must ensure that they are aware of, and work within, local and national safeguarding legislation, guidance and procedures. The post holder will be required to attend mandatory safeguarding training appropriate to their role and to act at all times to protect the safety and wellbeing of patients, service users and colleges.

Please see Job description and supporting documents for more information.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, flexible and reliable person to join our lovely team at our semi-rural training practice, a short drive from Bristol.

We are a Park Run practice, interested in the environment and individual wellbeing. We have a garden and an active social team.

Primary:

Able to document contemporaneous Consultations according toNMC guidelines using EMIS clinical system

Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with legislation

Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral.

Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence

Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines

Request pathology services as necessary

Process pathology results if required

Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines and local wound protocol

Suture removal

Perform ECGs

Obtain and document informed consent (either verbal orwritten)

Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained

Confidentially of information gained at work must be always preserved

Ensure read codes and templates are used effectively

Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health

Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required

Maintain chronic disease registers

Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations andensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions

Provide vaccination and travel medicine services

Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately

Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies

Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests (if carrying out this service)

Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs

Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards

Recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines

Able to perform CPR according to current UK guidelines

Secondary:

Develop, implement, and embed health promotion andwell-being programmes

Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic…