Practice Nurse

NHS; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our team at The Prince of Wales Surgery, Poundbury, Dorchester.

The practice is currently looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Practice Nurse with primary care experience and Diabetes chronic disease management to join our friendly and professional team on a part time basis.

By joining our team you will benefit from:

• 6 weeks annual leave pro rata + Bank Holidays
• Full paid for indemnity cover
• In-house induction and good training opportunities
• Continuous learning and development programmes

Hours: 19-21 hours per week over 3 days: Tuesday/ Thursday and Friday

Closing date: 22nd April 2025 with interviews planned 29th April 2025

Main duties of the job

Provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.

Job Responsibilities:

• Cytology
• Wound and ulcer care including removal of sutures and staples
• Day to day management of Diabetes chronic disease, maintaining disease registers, management of condition, referrals to other members of the primary care team, audit outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary
• Routine immunisations and vaccinations schedule
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs, bloods
• Contraception advice including Depo and pill checks
• Administration of injections including b12
• Infection control monitoring
• Day to day use of recall systems/processes
• Venepuncture

About us

We are a 6 GP Partner Practice with a practice population of 10,000.

We have a well established, supportive and friendly Nursing Team comprising of 5 Practice Nurses, 3 Healthcare Assistants and 2 phlebotomists, working across 2 sites at Dorchester and Portesham.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients' health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Provide vaccination and travel medicine services.
• Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients.
• Request pathology services as necessary.
• Process pathology results as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• Ensure read codes are used effectively.
• Maintain chronic disease registers.
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
• Maintain smears results logs.
• Manage emergency drug kit.

Person Specification

General Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• IT Literate.
• Ability to work as a team.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Able to use own initiative.
• Flexibility of working hours including some enhanced evening hours.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse currently registered with the NMC.
• Experience of Primary Care including childhood and travel vaccinations, cytology, wound care.
• Experience of SystmOne Clinical System.

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.