Practice Nurse

Job summary

Plowright Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for between 25 to 30 hours per week. Hours and days are by negotiation.

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.

About us

We are a caring, friendly, proactive practice in a beautiful location, close to the City of Norwich and the breath-taking Norfolk coast. Equidistant to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in Norwich, around 30 minutes from the University of East Anglia and the Nursing & Midwifery School.

Plowright is a Dispensing practice with c. 6500 patients across 2 sites, an award-winning modern premises at our Swaffham main surgery and branch surgery at Necton, 5 miles away.

We have a 'Good' CQC rating, achieve high QOF points and have an excellent Reception, Dispensary and Admin Support teams. We utilise EMIS Web and Docman software Systems, but will be migrating to TPP System One in August 2024. You will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of new ways of working, including collaborative working, research and GP training.

We offer:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme.
• A minimum 5 weeks FTE Annual Leave, with enhancements for long service.
• Free onsite parking