Long Term Nurse - min

The team at The James Cochrane Practice are looking for a dedicated Long Term Conditions(LTC) Nurse to join our friendly, patient centred practice. This is a rewarding role within our well established LTC team, where you'll support patients with a range of chronic conditions and play a key part in promoting long term health and wellbeing.

• Awarm, collaborative, patient centred, multi-disciplinary team who truly value your contribution
• Opportunities to develop specialist skills within Primary Care
• Supportive working environment with weekly clinical MDTs and daily clinician coffee time
• Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Basedin the beautiful South Lakes area; a great place to live and work

What you'll be doing

• Delivering high quality management of long term conditions
• Providing health promotion and preventative care
• Supporting personalised care plans and proactive patient reviews
• Working closely with our LTC specialist team and broader clinical / nursing team
• Contributing to a positive patient experience and high clinical standards

We are 2 site, dispensing practice in Kendal with around
17,500 patients keen to attract caring, motivated, and passionate colleagues.

We offer a wide range of enhanced services, plus Dermatology and ENT clinics.

We are a GP registrar and medical student training practice with an active frailty and care home support team. We are an accredited Veteran friendly practice, a Park Run practice and are proactive in women's and men's health.

We are part of an excellent Primary Care Network and supported with clinical services from a wide range of disciplines. We offer

• Weekly clinical MDT meetings
• Protected daily coffee time with colleagues

We continually develop our systems to respond to the changing environment of primary care, aiming to minimise administration workload and maximise job satisfaction to the benefit of our patients and ourteam.

We offer a generous holiday entitlement,increasing up to 33 days annual leave after 10 years continuous NHS service(pro rata)

What we're looking for

• Experience in chronic disease management (e.g. Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Hypertension, CVD) is an advantage, but training will be given to support your development into
  
  LTC nursing
• Confidence working independently as well as within a wider multidisciplinary team
• Strong clinical judgement and excellent organisational skills
• Aproactive, flexible approach, especially during busy periods
• Abilityto handle sensitive or confidential patient information professionally
• Ideally anurse prescriber with primary care experience (desirable but not essential)

We welcome both
full or part-time applicants,
experienced LTC clinicians, and those who are
looking to develop their career in long term condition management.

As part ofour succession planning, we are committed to providing training and support tohelp you grow into the role.

• Hold current NMC registration
• Qualified Nurse Prescriber
• Nurse prescriber
• Diploma in area of speciality

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of working as a practice nurse of community nurse

• You will be available to work extended hours clinics which currently include some evenings and Saturdays

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.