Practice Nurse​/Treatment room Nurse

West Walk Surgery are looking for an experienced, motivated Practice Nurse to join our friendly Practice Nursing team.

This position is for 16 hours a week. Days and times of work can be mutually agreed.

Pay will be dependant on your experience.

We are looking for a Nurse to carry out treatment room duties such as - Wound care, Cervical cytology swabs, removal of sutures, urinalysis, blood pressures, ECGs, venepuncture, child immunisations, vaccinations including travel.

Some Chronic disease management would be advantageous but not necesaary for this role.

West Walk Surgeryis set within the West Gate Centre in the middle of Yate shopping centre, caring for 15,000 patients.

Our friendly,forward thinking team team consists of 11 GPs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Mental Health Nurse, Practice Nurses,Healthcare Assistants, Physios, all supported by a large admin team and Practice Management.

Practice Nurse.

Job title

Practice Nurse/Treatment room Nurse

Line manager

Practice Manager

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Job summary

Working as a memberof the Practice Nurse team, the post holder will ensure nursing services are delivered effectively to the entitled patient population

Primary key responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Practice Nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

• a. To support the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) lead and to work to the IPC Policy providing audits, training, support and evidence of compliance to the practice manager.
• b. To assess the needs of patients ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence-based practice.
• c. To develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes.
• d. To provide routine nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• E. To request pathology services and process pathology results as required.
• F. To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
• G. To ensure read codes are used effectively by all members of the nursing team.
• H. To ensure compliance with the practice chaperonepolicy.
• I. To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• J. To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies.
• K. To liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• L. To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies.
• M. To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.

Secondary responsibilities

In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Practice Nurse may be requested to:

• a. Develop, review and implement nursing protocols in conjunction with the partners.
• b. Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
• c. Support and participate in shared learning within the practice in order to improve patient care.
• d. Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate.
• e. Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach.

• Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council)

• Experience of working autonomously
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Experience of infection prevention and control measures
• Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Understanding the importance of evidence-based practice
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Asthma/COPD reviews
• Child immunisations
• Contraception
• Family planning
• Chronic Disease Management

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.