Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Our nursing team offers a range of clinical services including health promotion and long-term condition management, NHS Health Checks, hypertension management, contraception and sexual health advice, cervical screening, wound management, travel advice, administration of national childhood and adult vaccinations and phlebotomy.

Main duties

Provide care to the practice's patients as per the areas listed above.

Management of long-term conditions: involvement, implementing and using protocols and clinical guidelines

Work with patients to support compliance with, and adherence to, prescribed treatments

Support patients with diabetes

Support patients with asthma

Support/Lead Infection Prevention Control (IPC) within the practice

Deliver Vaccinations and Immunisations (childhood and adult)

Assist with the reviewing and the delivery of clinical policies and procedures

Ability to monitor, audit, manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration, single use equipment and general treatment room equipment

Support the practice's fulfilment of the Quality Outcomes Framework and local Quality Improvement Schemes.

Undertake clinical audits

To take responsibility for own professional development and undertaking training for specific clinical tasks

Attend mandatory training courses and updates and any study days as appropriate to post

Participate in yearly appraisal, personal development plan and revalidation

You may be requested to undertake other duties/tasks that have not been identified in this job description and these will be discussed prior to undertaking them.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered RGN/Full NMC pin
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Recognised qualification / training of chronic diseases
• Understanding of Chronic Disease Management
• Infection Prevention Control training / experience
• Vaccination and Immunisation trained
• Wound Management
• Experience of clinical audits
• Experience of caring for people with Asthma / COPD / Diabetes

Desirable

• Nurse Prescriber
• Cervical Cytology trained or willing to train
• Experience of SystmOne/TPP, and Ardens
• Diabetes / COPD / Asthma training / qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a Practice Nurse or Community Nurse
• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to professional development and supporting others
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own workload priorities
• Can work well in a team, ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team as well as autonomously
• Adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Flexibility of working hours / able to cover for nursing colleagues when required / ad-hoc clinics (flu or Covid vaccination clinics)
• Able to maintain accurate records

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 (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Pulteney Practice

Address

35 Great Pulteney Street

Bath

BA2 4BY

Employer's website

https://www.pulteney.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)