Job summary
An exciting opportunity
has arisen to join our Nursing team at The Chorley Surgery.
- Join
a practice that is trying hard to make the job as stress free as possible.
- Join
a practice that strives to be the best at clinical care.
- Join
a practice that will offer real day to day support and guidance.
- Join
a practice that offers total flexibility, work-life balance and family
friendly hours.
- Join
a practice where the consulting rooms are gorgeous and twice the average
size.
Main duties of the job
To assist medical personnel in the care of practice patients, to include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education.
Provide assessment, screening treatment, services and health education advice.
Assist with the organisation and co-ordination of the provision of nursing services for the practice.
Provide nursing treatment to patients in participation with general practitioners, using agreed protocols, including the taking of cervical smears.
Provide general and specific health screening to the practice patients (within the agreed protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.
Be competent in administration of childhood immunisation and travel vaccination.
Be competent and confident in managing people with long-term health conditions
About us
We are a forward thinking, friendly practice based in the centre of Chorley.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Nurse to join our team following the retirement of one of our practice nurses.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about patient care, has experience of EMIS web, knowledge of QoF and who has excellent nursing skills.
This post is full time up to 37.5 hours a week, however we are happy to consider less hours for the right candidate
Salary will depend on qualifications and experience, range between £17-£20 per hour.
NHS pension
6 weeks paid holiday plus bank holidays
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for
patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating
both drug-and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to
patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national
and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with, and
adherence to, prescribed treatments.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter
medication, medication regimes,
side-effects and interactions
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote
healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation
programmes for both adults and children.
- Management of monitoring bloods for long term condition and NHS
Health Checks. I.e HBA1C and Cholesterol. With support from clinicians
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for
patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating
both drug-and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to
patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national
and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with, and
adherence to, prescribed treatments.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter
medication, medication regimes,
side-effects and interactions
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote
healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
- Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation
programmes for both adults and children.
- Management of monitoring bloods for long term condition and NHS
Health Checks. I.e HBA1C and Cholesterol. With support from clinicians
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Current NMC Registration
- Demonstrable commitment to professional development
- Eligible to work in the UK
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring experience
- CPR/anaphylaxis training in last 12 months
- Independent/supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in accordance with the NMC
- Code of Professional conduct
- Several years post registration experience
- Experience in childhood immunisation, womens
- health, wound care, and general nursing
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical
- guidelines
- Experience of Microsoft Office software, in particular, Word, Excel and email
Desirable
- Audit experience
- Experience of nurse-led management of long-term
- conditions
- Experience of EMIS Web clinical system
- Previous experience of working in General Practice
- and/or Community Nursing
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Competent in childhood immunisation, womens
- health, wound care, and general nursing
- Willing to develop clinical skills and competency
- relevant to the role
- Excellent communication skills, both written and
- verbal
- Strong organisational skills
- Excellent administrative skills
- Strong numeracy and record keeping skills
- Strong keyboard and computer skills
- Competence in the management of screening bloods and long term condition management bloods I.e NHS health checks, primarily HBA1C and Cholesterol
Desirable
- Experience of using EMIS
- Experience of building and analysing searches
- using EMIS web
- Good presentation skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Current NMC Registration
- Demonstrable commitment to professional development
- Eligible to work in the UK
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring experience
- CPR/anaphylaxis training in last 12 months
- Independent/supplementary nurse prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in accordance with the NMC
- Code of Professional conduct
- Several years post registration experience
- Experience in childhood immunisation, womens
- health, wound care, and general nursing
- Experience of implementing protocols and clinical
- guidelines
- Experience of Microsoft Office software, in particular, Word, Excel and email
Desirable
- Audit experience
- Experience of nurse-led management of long-term
- conditions
- Experience of EMIS Web clinical system
- Previous experience of working in General Practice
- and/or Community Nursing
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Competent in childhood immunisation, womens
- health, wound care, and general nursing
- Willing to develop clinical skills and competency
- relevant to the role
- Excellent communication skills, both written and
- verbal
- Strong organisational skills
- Excellent administrative skills
- Strong numeracy and record keeping skills
- Strong keyboard and computer skills
- Competence in the management of screening bloods and long term condition management bloods I.e NHS health checks, primarily HBA1C and Cholesterol
Desirable
- Experience of using EMIS
- Experience of building and analysing searches
- using EMIS web
- Good presentation skills
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
