Practice Nurse

Job summary

The Knares Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse from primary care GP practice to join our team on a part-time basis, 15-20 hours per week on to work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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

The Knares Medical Practice is a friendly general practice with over 8,000 patients serving the Basildon area. We are quite close to the hospital. We have great staff retention with some people who have been with the practice for over 20 years. Team work is essential for us and we pride ourself in great patient care. Out team consists of 4 GPs, 3 Nurses, 2 HCAs, 2 Clinical Pharmacists, a Care Coordinator and a Social Prescriber, a Business Manager, a Practice Manager, a Secretary and Receptionists. Our practice offer all types of general practice services including minor surgery and vasectomy. We are part of West Basildon PCN which is made up of 5 GP practices.