Practice Nurse

Job summary

Sandy Health Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 3 days a week with some flexibility regarding days as it is a job share post.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About us

Sandy Health centre is located in Sandy Bedfordshire is a purpose built building looking after patients in the town and surrounding villages. We have in circa 9,200 patients.

Our clinical team consists of 5 GP partners, salaried GP, physician associate, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse, HCA and phlebotomist. The clinical team is supported by a good admin team and dispensary staff. We now have a PCN pharmacist and pharmacy technician assigned to our practice to help with medication reviews. We are part of Sandhills PCN which covers two practices two in Sandy and one in Biggleswade and work closely with each other to improve patient care.

We work well as a team to offer excellent medical care to our patients and to support each during the working day as we all know how busy it can get.

The NHS pension scheme is available to all employees.