Practice Nurse Chronic Disease Management

Practice Nurse with Chronic Disease Management

We are looking to recruit a Practice Nurse with CDM experience who is highly motivated, proactive and positive to join our clinical team.

We have 20 hours available.

You will need to be competent in all the usual treatment room duties including wound care, compression bandage, cervical smears, baby and travel immunisations.

We hold a PMS Contract in South Gloucestershire

We use EMIS Web and Ardens

We provide a full range of enhanced services.

We are high QoF achievers

We have an active working relationship with our PCN member practices

We are looking for an experienced primary care nurse that is able to hit the ground running.

It's a busy environment, so you will need to be able to work under your own initiative as well as part of a successful team. Additionally you will need to be flexible and amenable to the changing demands of primary care.

St Mary Street is a well established Practice located in the semi rural town of Thornbury near to the Severn Estuary. We are a dedicated team of 30 people (directly employed) who are supported by PCN employed colleagues including a Pharmacy team, Physiotherapists, a Frailty team and Social Prescribers.

We are a friendly, successful 4 Partner Practice committed to providing high quality patient health and care services to our 9000 patients and growing. Our ethos is built upon some core values including safe, accessible and continuous care for each of our patients.

We are also a GP training practice with 3 of our 4 Partners registered as trainers. Therefore, we commonly have learners with us at any given time. In addition, we are supported by three Salaried GPs, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, a highly successful nursing team and a dedicated and supportive administrative team.

We are a social bunch and fair well in the annual GP Patient Survey. Our staff turnover is low and the team supports and looks out for each other especially as patient demand on our services reaches an all time high.

The following are the core responsibilities of a Practice nurse with CDM responsibilities. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• Implement and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
• Identify,manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions,preventing adverse effects on patients health
• Provideroutine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical-based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Providewound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients
• Provideimmunisations (childhood, seasonal, etc)
• Provide Cervical Cytology screening
• Request and process pathology results
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure accurate use of SNOMED codes to support QOF and LES/DES targets
• Chaperonepatients where necessary
• Assist
  
  GPs with minor surgery when required
• Prioritise health issues and interveneappropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Implementvaccination programmes for adults and children
• Supportpatients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over-the-counter medicines(within own scope of practice)
• Liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Understandpractice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour,referring patients appropriately
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

• Experience of working in a GP Practice
• Experience of working within a nursing team
• Experience of managing COPD, Asthma and/or Diabetes

• Registered Nurse
• Diploma in COPD, Asthma and/or Diabetes
• Postgraduate Diploma or Degree ( Primary Care )

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.