Practice Nurse

Are you a nurse with primary care experience looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to work in a beautiful location within a small, friendly and supportive team? Then this role may be for you!

We are seeking a dynamic individual who is eager to take ownership of the role of practice nurse and contribute positively to the Corfe Castle Surgery team. We are looking for someone who will share our commitment to providing outstanding care to our patients.

• Cervical Cytology
• Childhood, Adult and Travel Immunisations
• Long-Term Conditions Management
• Diabetes Diploma
• Experience of using System One

Required:

• UK Registered nurse with NMC
• Must be able to relay clinical information and be able to maintain accurate and comprehensive consultation records
• IT Literate
• Able to work in a changing environment and implement change when applicable to provide high-quality health care
• Flexibility of working days/hours

We are offering a permanent post of 10 hours a week to a suitable candidate.

Main duties of the job

Main duties will include but not be limited to;

• Cytology
• Health Promotion
• Wound and ulcer care including removal of sutures and staples
• Day to day management of chronic diseases clinics particularly diabetes, including maintaining disease registers, management of condition, referrals to other members of the primary care team or community team
• Routine immunisations and vaccinations to schedule
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs, bloods via ICE
• Contraception advice including Depo and pill checks
• Administration of injections including B12
• Day to day use of recall systems/processes
• Venepuncture

We are a rural dispensing practice with approximately 3225 patients. We have a lead GP, three salaried GP's, a Practice Manager, a Lead Practice Nurse, a HCA, 3 dispensers and 6 Admin Staff as well as regular locum and bank support staff.

We pride ourselves on being recognised as a surgery who deliver a high calibre of care to our patients, and are proud to have received overall 'Outstanding' status from our latest CQC inspection, and equally as importantly in this years' Annual GP Survey we achieved a score of 99% overall patient satisfaction (rated good or very good).

We are set in a beautiful location with views of Corfe Castle.

Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed bysenior nursing staff and GP's

Contribute to infection prevention and control measures

Mentor for newly employed Practice Nurses where appropriate

Cytology

Removal of Sutures

Travel Clinic

ECGs

Venepuncture

Routine immunisations/Childhood immunisations

Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician

Assisting GPs withminor surgery

Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs

Reviews for Diabetes or Coronary Heart Disease and Contraception. Asthma/COPD reviews/Spirometry
-following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate

Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs

Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required

Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms

Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels

Participation in administrative systems in the Practice

At all times therewill be a need to maintain accurate records

A duty to advise senior nurses 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

• UK Registered Nurse
• Experience of working within primary care
• ECG
• Administration of injectable medications
• Cervical Cytology
• INR Star
• Travel Immunisations
• Childhood and Adult Immunisations

• UK Registered Nurse with NMC
• Cervical cytology
• Childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
• Wound care
• Compression and Doppler
• Management of long term conditions
• Experience of Systm One 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.