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 with primary care experience and Diabetes chronic disease management to join our friendly and professional team on a part time basis.
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
Hours: 19-21 hours per week over 3 days: Tuesday/ Thursday and Friday
Closing date: 22nd April 2025 with interviews planned 29th April 2025
Main duties of the job
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 Diabetes chronic disease, 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
We are a 6 GP Partner Practice
with a practice population of 10,000.
We have a well established,
supportive and friendly Nursing Team comprising of 5 Practice Nurses, 3 Healthcare
Assistants and 2 phlebotomists, working across 2 sites at Dorchester and
Portesham
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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 smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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 smears results logs
- Manage emergency drug kit
Person Specification
General Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- IT Literate
- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to use own initiative
- Flexibility of working hours including some enhanced evening hours
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse currently registered with the NMC
- Experience of Primary Care including childhood and travel vaccinations, cytology, wound care
Desirable
- Diabetes experience/ qualification
- Experience of SystmOne Clinical System
Person Specification
General Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- IT Literate
- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to use own initiative
- Flexibility of working hours including some enhanced evening hours
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse currently registered with the NMC
- Experience of Primary Care including childhood and travel vaccinations, cytology, wound care
Desirable
- Diabetes experience/ qualification
- Experience of SystmOne Clinical System
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
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).