Part time practice nurse – we are looking for an enthusiastic, committed practice nurse to join our existing nursing team.
The post is part time 30 hours per week worked over 4 days.
Applicants must be proficient in providing treatment room services. Applicants will ideally have experience of diabetes management or respiratory disease. It is also expected that applicants who have not previously undertaken child immunisations, travel immunisations and cervical smears must be prepared to undertake training to provide these services.
Salary: negotiable dependent on experience, with an option to join the NHS Pension Scheme.
The job description and person specification for this post are available below.
Please submit CV and an accompanying letter via email to Ann Blackburn Practice Manager
Email address: annblackburn@nhs.net
Closing date for return of application forms: 4/4/2024
Please note if we have not contacted you by 4/5/2024 please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
PRACTICE NURSE JOB DESCRIPTION
The practice nurse will be responsible to the partners.
Duties include:
- HCA: Providing supervision, advice and guidance to any practice employed Healthcare Assistant (this may include undertaking annual appraisal for the HCA).
- The management of minor injuries
- Dressings and review of wounds and sutures
- Phlebotomy – urgent & fasting, routine when necessary.
- Assistance in minor operative procedures carried out by the partners.
- Chaperoning the partners when required, advising non-clinical staff on best practice with regard to chaperoning
- Advice to patients on disease prevention
- Contraceptive advice according to practice protocols
- Cervical smears, breast awareness, swabs and BP checks
- Administration of immunisation of children, adults and holiday goers according to practice protocols
- Setting up and running disease clinics lead nurse for: COPD, Asthma & CHD
- Running other clinics at the discretion of the partners including keeping accurate and up to date records and inputting all data on the practice clinical system, completion of paperwork when required.
- Audit of practice nurse-run clinics when requested by the partners
- Ensuring adequate stocks of in-date emergency drugs as required in the list provided
- Ensuring equipment such as sphygs, scales, nebulisers and other clinical equipment are kept in good working order.
- Carry out daily testing of the fridge temperature, and weekly testing of the defibrillator battery.
- Ensuring that the doctor’s rooms are kept adequately stocked with sample bottles, phlebotomy equipment, speculae, gloves and a variety of other items commonly in daily use by the doctors
- Ensuring that the nurse’s treatment rooms are kept in a hygienic and safe condition at all times
- Referring to a partner or other doctor employed as an assistant or locum all patients requiring prescription or who do not confirm to recognised protocols or patterns of disease
- Performing new patient health checks/NHS Health Checks & any other routine health checks
- Relevant paper work as agreed by the partners.
- All information to be recorded on the patient’s computer record (emis web)
- Ensuring that adequate stocks of vaccination, contraceptive materials and other items necessary for the completion of dressings, minor ops and the usual general practice examinations.
- Other reasonable requests made by the partners or practice manager
Person Specification Practice Nurse
Criteria | Essential | Desirable |
Qualifications and TrainingRegistered General NurseNMC RegisteredQualifications/Certificates in CytologyQualifications/Certificates in ImmunisationRecognised qualification to diploma level Chronic Disease Management – DiabetesRecognised qualification – Sexual HealthA demonstrable commitment to professional development | YY Y | YY YY Y |
ExperienceExperience of working in accordance with the NMC Code of ConductExperience of using Emis Web Clinical SystemExperience of dealing with the public/patientsPrevious Practice Nurse experienceExperience of undertaking Audit | Y Y | Y YY |
Knowledge/SkillsCompetent in basic nursing duties required for the postSpecific nursing skills/qualificationsExcellent communication skillsKnowledge of Quality Outcomes FrameworkComputer Literate | Y YYYY | |
Qualities/AttributesPleasant and articulateAbility to work without direct supervisionAble to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common senseAbility to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled teamAble to work under pressureAble to work in a changing environmentOrganisedReliableFlexible | YYY Y YY YYY |