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Job Location:
South Ockendon - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Peartree Surgery and West Horndon Surgeryhave a fantastic opportunity for a practice nurse to join our team ideally on a full time basis working 37.5 hours per week although this can be negotiable for the right candidate. Working across the two sites we have 3 highly supportive partners who will help develop skills with the candidate and try to further their career where possible. We are open to taking applications from newly qualified nurses to highly experienced nurses.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- 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.
- 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 (for NHS vaccinations only the practice does not operate private travel clinics).
- Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
- Hypertension review and management (with clinical support).
- Running asthma COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews (in-house support will be available for this)
- New patient health checks (support and training will be provided).
- Infection control leadership (training will be made available).
About the Candidate
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
- Competence or ability to learn to undertake asthma COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews holding relevant certificates where possible (support will be provided).
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation phlebotomy (optional) ECG recording (support will be provided) screening management of long-term conditions (support will be provided) cervical cytology sampling vaccinations and immunisations dressing and wound care.
- 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.
About Us
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
- Dermal Fillers
- Experience Administering Injections
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Botox Experience
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
About Company
NHS General Practitioner GP Medical Centre | Cavendish Health Centre | Marylebone, Central London, England
