Practice Nurse

NHS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Nightingale Valley Practice for a Practice Nurse. We pride ourselves on being a fantastic place to work, where you will feel valued, supported, developed and part of a working family.

Nightingale Valley practice are an active training practice covering 15,200 patients.

We are a very friendly and supportive team, co-located in a purpose-built Health Centre with a wide range of associated health services. Our team has a strong multi-disciplinary working ethos and enjoy supporting each other. Working closely with GP colleagues, the post-holder will deliver several Treatment Room clinics providing assessment; treatment; screening; health education services and advice to patients.

We are looking for the post-holder to work 25-37 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

You will ideally have knowledge and experience of dealing with chronic disease in addition to other Practice Nurse tasks. You will need to be NMC registered with a minimum of 1 year experience working in primary care. The ideal person will be empathetic, enthusiastic and highly motivated person that is confident working alone or as part of a team.

This role is also responsible for working towards our annual campaigns, including planning and coordination of clinics, and overseeing QOF to ensure we are meeting required targets for chronic diseases. In addition, you will be expected to take part in the extended hours rota for the practice.

About us

We are pleased to be able to offer flexibility and autonomy within the skill set of the role. This exciting opportunity to join our friendly and dynamic team will include a balanced mix of routine general practice work including driving forward the services we offer to our patients. We have recently completed programmes to improve efficiencies within the practice to enable more time for patient care and team catch-ups. We have regular practice meetings and regular CPD sessions in-house.

Job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will be:

1. Meeting the care needs of patients or where care has been transferred from a GP.
2. Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified patient populations.
3. Chronic disease management using practice computer systems for recall and screening purposes and for accurate and efficient input of data.
4. Initiates the process of diagnosis with suspected chronic disease eg COPD, asthma and then referring to GP where appropriate.
5. Administer adult and child immunisations and vaccinations in accordance with national and local programmes. Is competent in anaphylaxis and basic life support techniques.
6. Offers travel health clinic advice for patients prior to travel, as well as travel vaccinations.
7. Treatment room services eg phlebotomy, routine injections, glucose tolerance tests, BP management, urinalysis, peak flow, spirometry, suture/ clip removal, wound management, cervical smears, contraceptive services, ECGs when adequate training achieved. (IUD/ coil fitting an advantage)
8. Works within relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines eg infection control, chaperoning, PGDs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC registered. Minimum of 1 year experience working in Primary Care.
• Ability to work independently and manage patients on a chronic disease register to a high standard.
• Experience with IM injections, qualified to give vaccinations and provide wound care.
• We are looking for someone with qualifications and experience in chronic disease management for diabetes, asthma and COPD together with a smear taker qualification.
• Experience in managing minor illness such as urine infections.

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.