Practice Nurse - Primary Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide and maintain an extremely high standard of nursing care for patients across our main GP surgery and our branch surgery as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team. The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken and in addition any roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training. Take responsibility for chronic disease registers and work with admin staff to maintain robust call and recall systems for chronic disease, cervical cytology, immunisation and other populations based health promotion and disease prevention care programmes, escalating where necessary patients who need intervention from a GP to ensure a review as appropriate, constructing care pathways where patients receive appropriate investigations and reviews by an appropriate clinician at the appropriate time interval.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse with Experience of Primary Care
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development
• Competency in nursing duties required for the post
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to contribute to multi-professional working
• Ability to work well autonomously and within a team
• Experience of working in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct (2002) and The Scope of Professional Practice (1992)
• Experience of dealing with the public/patients
• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm to develop nursing skills
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
• Ability to work without direct supervision and determine own
• workload priorities
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
• Pleasant and articulate
• Able to work under pressure and in a changing environment
• Able to use own initiative
• Full registration with NMC
• Flexibility to work Enhanced Hours
• A commitment to ensure all Health and Safety requirements and Infection Control measures are met, as defined by national
• standards and the Practice Health & Safety Policy/Manual and the Practice Infection Control policy and procedures

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of the range of primary care and community services
• Specific nursing skills/qualifications relevant to the post, including phlebotomy, urinalysis, cervical cytology, wound care, childhood immunisations, travel clinic and smoking cessation
• Experience of QOF and chronic disease management (such as Diabetes, CHD, Asthma etc)
• Knowledge of IT clinical systems in particular SystmOne
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software
• Commitment to professional development & peer
• group learning
• Family Planning qualification (or willing to work towards)
• Car driver/clean licence

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Dr Gilkar & Partner

Address

Little Horton Lane Medical Centre

392 Little Horton Lane

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD5 0NX

Employer's website

https://www.drgilkar.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)