Practice Nurse

We are looking to employ a Practice Nurse who has experience of working in General practice. Desired applicant would specialise in Diabetic care or would be happy to be trained in this area. We are looking for someone to lead the diabetic care at our practice.

Diabetic Management

Management of chronic disease, Therapeutic monitoring, Wound Care and management, Patient health checks, Risk assessment, Health screening, Travel health, Immunisation (adult and child), First contact, Mental health, Respiratory management

We are looking for a practice nurse who will specialise in Diabetes.

Ideally Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8am to 6pm (27 hours) - this is negotiable.

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post‑holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.

The post‑holder will 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.

The post‑holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately.

Duties and responsibilities:

Management of chronic disease

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

Therapeutic monitoring

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

Wound Care and management

• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing 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)

Health screening

• 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‑holder’s specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel health

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

Immunisation (adult and child)

• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.

First contact

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

Minor operations

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

Mental health

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

Confidentiality

• 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 outlined in this job description, the post‑holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only…