Practice Nurse

Are you a Practice Nurse who wants to enjoy the full rangeof Nurse duties, such as immunisations, smears, wound management whilstbuilding good relationship with our diverse patients? If yes, then this couldbe the role for you! This excellent surgery is seeking a Practice Nurse to comein and enjoy a wide variety of responsibilities, that will keep things very interesting from day to day.

About you- we are looking for a person who is:

• Flexible and a good team worker.
• Enthusiastic and forward thinking
• Confident and able to work under pressure.
• Self-aware and understanding of own limitations and those of others.
• An effective mentor and communicator
• Committed to ongoing professional and practice development.
• Able to work well autonomously and within a team
• Ideally experienced in working in Primary care setting and skilled in chronic disease management (or willing to take on training in this area)

For full details please refer to person specification documents.

• Supportive partnership
• A very diverse role
• Support in professional development
• Competitive salary (dependant on skills and experience) and benefits package including NHS Pension.
• 4 weeks enhanced sick pay after 12 months service

Your Role:

• Provides opportunity to make a positive change to our diverse community
• Combines teamwork with autonomy in decision making, within the remit of the role
• Supports participation in delivery of a high standard and evidence based care to our patient population.

• Registered General Nurse
• Minimum of 1 year post qualification nursing experience
• Experience of primary care would be an advantage
• Qualification in chronic disease management and or willingness to be trained in these areas would be an advantage
• Prescribing qualification would be an advantage

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.