Job summary
Adderley Green Medical Services are looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated General Practice Nurse to join our friendly nursing team. The role is flexible and we are open to considering part time or job share - working across our Meir & Longton practice sites
It is essential that you are experienced in Primary Care and fully competent and trained to deliver cervical screening and national immunisation programmes
Our practice teams are dedicated to delivering high quality, patient-centred care and making a positive difference to patients lives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder must be experienced & competent in all areas of general practice nursing and you will:
Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and well being
- Deliver and manage long term condition clinics
- Delivery of frail elderly assessments
- Implement and evaluate individual care plans for patients with a known long-term conditions
- Identify and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term conditions
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion & lifestyle, NHS Health Checks
- Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
- Assess and care for patients presenting with minor injuries
- Support and advise in relation to family planning and contraceptive needs
- Deliver cervical cytology screening clinics
- Deliver vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
- Home visits to the houseboundfor frail elderly, long term condition reviews, and delivery of vaccination programmes.
- Administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
- Promote use of PGDs
- Participate and lead on QOF & QIF- local quality frameworks & enhanced services.
- Participate in audit
- Participate in practice clinical meetings
- Maintain registration and revalidation processes
- Manage own clinics and have excellent communication and IT skills
- Lead on infection control processes and audit
About us
Adderley Green Medical Services Ltd, is a forward thinking Primary Care provider, delivering high quality GP services to the patient population at Adderley Green Surgery & Willowbank Surgery. We are a very patient centred, multi - disciplinary organisation, in which all of our dedicated practice and Primary Care Network additional roles staff take immense pride in delivering excellent patient care to our diverse population.
We are a teaching and training practice in conjunction with Keele University and West Midlands Deanery and are also supportive of our staff who wish to develop and grow their career with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide and maintain a high standard of Primary Care, General Practice Nursing to patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team.
Job responsibilities:
- Delivery of Cervical Cytology clinics
- Delivery of routine immunisations & Childhood immunisation programme
- Offer a holistic approach to travel health by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including; vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection.
- Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions.
- Running well person clinics and health promotion programmes by providing a holistic assessment and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise. Facilitates change.
- Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, and signposting appropriately.
- Able to document Consultations according to NMC guidelines
- Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
- Participation in the running of chronic disease management clinics, learning disability health checks and elderly health checks
- Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines.
- Taking of swabs
- Contraception
- Able to recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
- Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
- Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
- Participation in the delivery of QOF & QIF and other national & local enhanced services.
- Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration and emergency equipment.
- Confidentially of information gained at work must be preserved at all times.
- Assist patients to identify their health needs.
- Manage and organise individual patient consultations.
- Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.
- To attend staff meetings /clinical governance meetings
- Participate in clinical audit
- Participate in appraisal & revalidation
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide and maintain a high standard of Primary Care, General Practice Nursing to patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team.
Job responsibilities:
- Delivery of Cervical Cytology clinics
- Delivery of routine immunisations & Childhood immunisation programme
- Offer a holistic approach to travel health by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including; vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection.
- Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions.
- Running well person clinics and health promotion programmes by providing a holistic assessment and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise. Facilitates change.
- Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, and signposting appropriately.
- Able to document Consultations according to NMC guidelines
- Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
- Participation in the running of chronic disease management clinics, learning disability health checks and elderly health checks
- Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines.
- Taking of swabs
- Contraception
- Able to recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
- Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
- Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
- Participation in the delivery of QOF & QIF and other national & local enhanced services.
- Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration and emergency equipment.
- Confidentially of information gained at work must be preserved at all times.
- Assist patients to identify their health needs.
- Manage and organise individual patient consultations.
- Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.
- To attend staff meetings /clinical governance meetings
- Participate in clinical audit
- Participate in appraisal & revalidation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Cytology (cervical smears)
- Childhood & routine immunisations & vaccinations
- Management of long term conditions
Desirable
- Experience working with EMIS
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Desirable
- Experience working with EMIS
Access to vehicle
Essential
- Ability to carry out home visits is essential to this role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Cytology (cervical smears)
- Childhood & routine immunisations & vaccinations
- Management of long term conditions
Desirable
- Experience working with EMIS
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Desirable
- Experience working with EMIS
Access to vehicle
Essential
- Ability to carry out home visits is essential to this role
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).
