Practice Nurse
Crosland Moor Surgery
The closing date is 31 December 2024
Job summary
We are looking for a practice nurse to work along side with GPs, clinical staff and admin staff to provide care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide vaccinations and immunisations
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process pathology results as required
- Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Provide NHS health checks
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results logs
- Maintain smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
About us
Crosland
Moor Surgery is a friendly 2 partner practice and we are offering a
unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated
Practice Manager to join our practice team. We are a small surgery with
over 4,000 patients serving the Crosland Moor area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Part time, 30 hours per week.
Job duties:
- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing
long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide vaccination and travel medicine services
- Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process pathology results as required
- Provide
chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary,
referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Provide NHS health checks
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results logs
- Maintain smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
Job description
Job responsibilities
Part time, 30 hours per week.
Job duties:
- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing
long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide vaccination and travel medicine services
- Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process pathology results as required
- Provide
chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary,
referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Provide NHS health checks
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results logs
- Maintain smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Primary care experience as a practice nurse, able to carry out wound care chronic disease review including COPD review, immunisation for adult and children
Desirable
- Able to carry out asthma review, cervical smear
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Primary care experience as a practice nurse, able to carry out wound care chronic disease review including COPD review, immunisation for adult and children
Desirable
- Able to carry out asthma review, cervical smear
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).