Vaccination NURSE; General Practice

Are you a passionate Registered Nurse with experience in deliveringadult vaccination programmes?

Do you have a commitment to improving publichealth and providing outstanding patient-centred care?

The Adam Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced
Vaccination Nurse to join our busy, friendly and supportive Nursing Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract
, with the possibility of extensionsubject to service needs and achievement of programme outcomes.

Part Time, up to 20hrs across the week.

Flexible hours. (There maybe scope for additional 2-4 hours if experienced inchildhood immunisation)

As our dedicated Vaccination Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering safe, effective and high quality vaccination services primarily to adult patients, supporting national immunisation programmes and helping to improvevaccination uptake across our practice population.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will administervaccinations in accordance with national guidance, clinical protocols and localpolicies, while promoting the benefits of immunisation and supporting patients to make informed decisions about their health.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a caring and professional approach, and enjoy working both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role also offers the opportunity for innovation, supporting the ongoing development and improvement of our vaccination service, ensuring it remains responsive,accessible and patient focused.

The candidate will need to have a professional, caring, and courteous manner and have a person centred approach to nursing care. You willbe an experienced Vaccinator and need to demonstrate excellent working knowledge of the Adult national vaccinations programme.

We are a CQC Outstanding-rated Practice with 40,000 patients and 17 current Partners working across 5 sites. We successfully combine efficiencies of scale with localised continuity and high quality care on individual surgery sites, whilst using a total triage appointment system to ensure acute patients are seen in a timely manner. We have the benefit of nearly 40 years of experience as a large multi-site Practice, providing a secure and stable environment to work in.

• To be responsible for the daily delivery of practice nursing clinics at a nominated site and working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled practice population.
• To work independently to provide and maintain a high professional standard of nursing care in adherence to all Practice protocols, policies & guidelines, as well as to provide nursing assistance, where required, to other members of the primary healthcare team.
• To undertake a vital role in providing, leading, coordinating and evaluating care that is compassionate, evidence based, and personalised.
• To participate in the provision of mentorship, clinical supervision for all Health care Students and colleagues alike, creating an effective shared learning environment.

The role of the Practice nurse needs to be flexible in line with the present atmosphere for change within the health service delivery. It is essential that the nurse works within own level of competency and expand her or his role in accordance with practice requirements and own scope of practice.

To provide routine and urgent nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and in agreement with the nurse management team.

To provide holistic assessment of wounds and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines. Inclusive of the treatment of minor traumatic wounds and lower limb care, following dedicated training and working within own level of competency.

To participate as member of the Leg Club Team, providing an holistic lower limb care and embracing the psychosocial model based in the community.

To undertake post op wound care, including removal of sutures and clips. Provision of health care advice to provide optimum healing post-operatively.

To undertake the collection of pathological & microbiology specimens including…