Nurse

Job summary

Noakbridge Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for either an experienced or newly qualified practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 16 hours per week. There is flexibility over days/shift patterns.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, 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.
• Mentoring Trainee Nurse Associate.

About us

Noakbridge Medical Centre is a small, well established practice with 3,500 patients. We are a friendly, supportive, well-organised team and use SystmOne clinical system. We are a forward thinking practice and high QOF achiever with a good CQC rating. We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension. For further information please contact Madhu McVay at madhu.mcvay@nhs.net.