Job summary
Plowright Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for between 25 to 30 hours per week. Hours and days are by negotiation.
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
We are a caring, friendly, proactive practice in a beautiful location, close to the City of Norwich and the breath-taking Norfolk coast. Equidistant to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in Norwich, around 30 minutes from the University of East Anglia and the Nursing & Midwifery School.
Plowright is a Dispensing practice with c. 6500 patients across 2 sites, an award-winning modern premises at our Swaffham main surgery and branch surgery at Necton, 5 miles away.
We have a 'Good' CQC rating, achieve high QOF points and have an excellent Reception, Dispensary and Admin Support teams. We utilise EMIS Web and Docman software Systems, but will be migrating to TPP System One in August 2024. You will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of new ways of working, including collaborative working, research and GP training.
We offer:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme.
- A minimum 5 weeks FTE Annual Leave, with enhancements for long service.
- Free onsite parking
Job description
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered First Level Nurse,
- Long term conditions qualification,
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
1 Jack Bobby Way
Swaffham
Norfolk
PE37 7HJ