Practice Nurse

Job summary

Are you a Practice Nurse who is passionate about patient care? Are you willing to bring your existing skills to enhance a service within Primary care? If so, we are recruiting Practice Nurses for our practices throughout the Sefton area that offer a family-friendly service to our patients. Primary Care 24 delivers care to a combined patient population of 20,000 people across 7 practices which were previously failing, but with an NHS Transformation Unit plan we are now delivering services at scale, using skill mix to rediscover expert- generalist, holistic general practice.

Main duties of the job

To provide assessment, treatment, screening and health education services and advice, working in accordance with set protocols, guidelines and NMC Code of Conduct.

Provide nursing service/treatments to patients independently or in participation with general practitioners with reference to agreed protocols and guidelines.

and New Patient Checks

Spirometry

Obesity and weight/diet management

Family Planning including assisting in Implants and Coil fittings and Sexual Health

Chronic disease monitoring Diabetes, Hypertension, Hypothyroidism, Stroke, Epilepsy, IHD, COPD and Asthma

CVD Risk assessments and Q risk interpretation and assessments

Home Visits for Housebound patients to include routine checks and flu vaccines.

Referrals Podiatry, Counselling, Audiology etc

Ensuring all specimens are checked and sent to laboratory as required.

About us

Primary Care 24 (PC24) is a not-for-profit social enterprise established in 2004, delivering NHS contracts exclusively.

The majority of our surplus is reinvested in patients and staff. We believe that primary healthcare should be accessible for everyone and are committed to delivering the best quality care we can, challenging social exclusion and working locally, where and when we can, to support our communities. We combine the best of the NHS with social enterprise innovation, developing solutions for NHS primary care and caring for our clinicians so that they can, in turn, care for our patients.