Practice Nurse

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse to join our team at The Prince of Wales Surgery, Poundbury, Dorchester.

The practice is currently looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Practice Nurse, ideally with primary care experience to join our friendly and professional team on a part time basis (15-20 hrs a week to include a full day on a Monday)

We are looking for someone who will share our commitment to providing excellent healthcare to our patients.

By joining our team you will benefit from:

• NHS pension
• 6 weeks annual leave pro rata + Bank Holidays
• Full paid for indemnity cover
• In-house induction and good training opportunities
• Continuous learning and development programmes

Main duties of the job

Job description

Provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients

Job Responsibilities:

• Cytology
• Wound and ulcer care including removal of sutures and staples
• Day to day management of chronic diseases clinics such as COPD and Asthma including maintaining disease registers, management of condition, referrals to other members of the primary care team, audit outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary
• Routine immunisations and vaccinations schedule
• Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs, bloods
• Contraception advice including Depo and pill checks
• Administration of injections including b12
• Infection control monitoring
• Day to day use of recall systems/processes
• Venepuncture

About us

About us

The Prince of Wales Surgery is a 5 GP Partner and 5 salaried GP training Practice and we have recently merged with Portesham Surgery, so the occasional shift may be required at Portesham

We have a well established, supportive and friendly Nursing Team comprising of 4 Practice Nurses and 3 Healthcare Assistants here and 2 Practice Nurses and 2 HCAs at Portesham Surgery..