Practice Nurse

Job summary

**** Please only apply if you have practice nurse experience****

Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced practice nurse with excellent knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Diabetes
• Asthma
• COPD
• Immunisations and injections
• Mental Health physical review
• Contraception
• Cervical smears
• Wound care
• CHD checks

This list is not exhaustive and may include other health checks.

About us
We are a high achieving well regarded practice. The clinical team includes:

• 2 Nurse Practitioners
• 3 Clinical Pharmacist
• 4 Visiting paramedic
• First Contact Practitioner (Physio)
• 2 Practice Nurses
• 2 Nursing Associate
• 2 HCAs

Benefits of working at Orchard Medical Practice

• Excellent rates of pay
• Relaxed friendly team
• Excellent administrative support
• Flexibility with working pattern
• Weekly clinical meetings
• On-site parking

Job responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for the delivery of general practice nursing to the whole practice population. Supported by the GPs within the practice, they will recognise and work within their own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC. The post holder will make an assessment of the patients needs and act upon their assessment. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

They will act collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients by providing quality evidence based care. They will support the delivery of policy and procedures and will be responsible for maintaining a personal development plan.

The post holder will have a responsibility to support the practice in achieving its targets for, chronic disease management, public health initiatives, LES, DES and QOF. It is essential that you ensure patients health checks and records are up to date at all times. Where patients are requiring periodic checks for chronic disease you are required to carry out those checks and to ensure that any other checks which are due within a short timescale are also carried out so as to improve lean working within practice and improve patient experience, by reducing number of times they have to come to the surgery

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified registered nurse with experience in the following:
• Diabetes
• COPD
• Asthma
• Immunisations
• Contraception

Experience
Essential

• Experience working in Primary Care

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.