Practice Nurse

Job summary

Meadowside Medical Centre is a friendly, high achieving practice with 8,500 patients, located in the heart of the market town Congleton. We are a very friendly team and welcome applicants to provide great patient care and to embed our values.

Up to date and evidence-based practice is important to us, thus we provide regular informal Nurse /GP catch-up meetings over lunch for peer support as well as dedicated education and clinical MDT meetings.

There is a great team spirit between doctors and staff. In addition, we have partnered with 3 other local practices to form a strong and collaborative PCN.

We are looking to recruit either 1wte/part time or job share positions for either experience or Newley qualified nurse.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrating clinical competence and work within your professional sphere.
• Provide management and support to the Nursing Team in conjunction with the GPS and Practice Manger
• Utilisation of defined templates to optimise Qof targets
• Work with the Practice Manager to meet all surgery and PCN targets.
• Undertake consultations with patients as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat or refer patients
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic long-term conditions.(COPD, Asthma and Diabetes)
• Make direct referrals to primary, secondary, and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols.
• Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care, delivered in a timely manner.
• Prescribe and review medication for effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs
• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of each patient contact.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.

About us

We continuing to provide a high standard of care to patients.

GMS Practice list size 8,500

Three partners, four salaried GPs, one ANP

Full nursing team, Lead nurse, Nurses, Assistant Practitioner and HCA

EMIS web

Medical indemnity paid.

Competitive salary based on experience.

Our work ethos is to be friendly and welcoming to all.

Teamwork is paramount and embeds our values of fairness