Practice Nurse Brixham

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Practice Nurse, with a current NMC registration to join our team at Compass House.

This is a permanent contract of 34-38 hours per week, with a salary range of £32,073 - £42,170 depending on experience. The working pattern would be three to four days, 8am to 6pm, including a Friday, and Enhanced Access cover until 8pm on a Tuesday evening on a rota basis.

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will

• provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.
• work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.
• have the required level of training and competence and will work within any necessary patient group directions where these are available.

We are based in a fantastic purpose-built Centre in Brixham, have a growing list size of 15,000+ patients. We are rated Outstanding by CQC and have achieved Investors in People Gold award.

Compass House is a dynamic, forward-thinking practice and we are seeking a nurse with a similar outlook to join us in developing our exciting plans for the future. We have an excellent support team, high patient satisfaction scores and low staff turnover, offering a rewarding environment.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals

• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using a holistic patient-centred approach
• Recognising abnormalities
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.

• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
• Identifying problems
• Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.

• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.

• Working independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/ recommendations as appropriate.

• Venepuncture
• Simple dressings
• ECG

• Assisting the general practitioner and/or undertaking some simple procedures

• Providing routine ear care
• Dealing with more complex problems and prescribing if appropriate.

• Being proactive in the identification of Carers

• Communicating with key workers
• Administering appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects.

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties…