Chronic Disease Specialist Nurse

Job summary

To be responsible for the implementation of processes for the effective management of patients with long-term conditions using evidence-based practice including care for elderly and housebound patients.

Working as a senior member of the practice multidisciplinary team, the post holder will ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to the entitled patient population.

The Practice Nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, as well as actively supporting the practice management team in the reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedure.

The Cedars Surgery must ensure that the post holder has access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the organisation to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.

Main duties of the job

To work within our already established nursing team alongside several experienced nurses.

We are ideally looking for someone already trained in Asthma, COPD and/or Diabetes.Reviewing these patients alongside the rest of the chronic disease nursing team.

About us

We aim to deliver the highest level of medical care to the population of Worle/Weston-Super-Mare, in purpose built premises.

To deliver health care in a safe, flexible and innovative way to meet patient choice and to reflect changing political and economic circumstances.

To ensure that all members of the team have the right skills and training to carry out their duties competently.

To understand and meet the needs of our patients, involve them in decision making about their treatment and care and encourage them to participate fully.

To involve other professionals in the care of our patients where it is in the patients best interests, i.e. referrals for specialist care and advice

To be courteous, approachable, friendly and accommodating.

To maintain high quality of care through learning and training.

To create an educational environment, where staff promote and share learning amongst themselves.

To ensure effective and robust information governance systems.

To guide our employees in accordance with diversity and equality.

To treat all patients and staff with dignity, equality, compassion, respect and honesty.