Minor Illness Nurse
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Job Summary
Queens Park Group Surgery in Bedford are looking for an experienced minor illness nurse to join their established team. This position is offered on a 3 month contract with either full or part-time hours available.
The minor illness nurse will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
Main responsibilities will include;
- Attending to patients who are appropriate to be seen by a minor illness nurse and to either care for them or if this is not appropriate triage them to a more appropriate clinician
- Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness and treating them following practice guidelines and protocols
- Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs
Please see job description attached for further details.
About the Candidate
All applicants should have the following qualifications registrations skills and experience:
- Degree Level Nursing qualification
- Prescribing qualification
- Minor illness related qualification
- Minimum of 2 years related experience
- High level of communication skills
- Good level of teamwork
- IT proficiency
- Patient-focussed drive
About Us
We are a very long-established practice working across two sites in Bedford looking after 12500 patients. We are also care-taking another local practice in Bedford with a list size of 9000 patients.
- SystmOne clinical system
- Rated Good by CQC
- High QOF achievers
- Friendly nursing and administrative support
We are active members of our primary care network and we welcome collaborative working. Our vision is progressive we are actively looking for new opportunities and we are a training practice. We grow our own staff and are developing advanced nurse practitioners and healthcare support workers. Bedfordshire is a great location and has a reputation for excellent schools beautiful villages and countryside close to Milton Keynes for shopping and 35 minutes from London by train.
For further information please contact our practice & business manager by emailemailprotected.
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.
Required Experience:
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- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
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- Experience Administering Injections
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Botox Experience
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
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