Practice Nurse

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

Job description

North Clacton Medical Group have a vacancy for an experienced practice nurse to join our nursing team - the role will involve working across the two surgery sites and carrying out home visits.

This is a full-time post to work 40 hours per week but we would be keen to fill this on a job share basis - ideally 2/3 days per week for each employee but we are flexible and keen to discuss potential working patterns. We would ideally like some flexibility for the post holders to be work additional hours to cover holidays. The working hours are 9.30am - 6.30pm Monday to Friday, with a lunch break (unpaid) 1-2pm making the day an 8 hour shift. We support career progression and special interests.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About us

North Clacton Medical Group is a GP practice in Clacton On Sea looking after 11,000 patients across two sites. We pride ourselves on being a family orientated practice and valuing work life balance. We have an on site gym which staff can use.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience working within a GP surgery as a practice nurse.
• Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.

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.