Practice Nurse (Maternity Cover)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.

The post-holder will work with reference to Practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.

The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Management of Long Term Conditions

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals

Therapeutic Monitoring

• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic patient-centred approach
• Recognising abnormalities
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.

Wound Care and Management

• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)

Patient Health Checks

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified

Risk Assessment

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)

Health Screening

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel Health

• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
• Identifying problems
• Provision of specialist and evidence based support to the team.

Immunisation (Adult and Child)

• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.

First Contact

• Working independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/ recommendations as appropriate.

Minor Surgery/Gynae Clinics

• Assisting the general practitioner and/or undertaking some simple procedures
• Cervical screening

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC certified

Experience

Essential

• At least one year work experience of working within a General Practice as a Practice Nurse

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

Waterfield House Surgery

Address

186 Henwood Green Road

Pembury

Tunbridge Wells

TN2 4LR

Employer's website

http://waterfieldhousepractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)