Practice Nurse

Greenmoss Medical Centre, a GP practice in Scholar Green, is recruiting a practice nurse to join its primary healthcare team. The post centres on managing a caseload of patients, covering chronic disease reviews, cytology, wound care and routine and childhood immunisations. The practice is part of the SMASH PCN and has a small team of 21 staff, including three GP partners and an advanced nurse practitioner.

Applicants need current NMC registration and at least two years in primary care.

• Routine patient care tasks as directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
• Managing patient caseloads and keeping accurate records
• Chronic disease management for hypertension, IHD, diabetes, asthma and COPD
• Learning disability and SMI reviews, and home visits for CDM checks
• Cervical screening (cytology)
• Routine and childhood immunisations
• Travel clinic assessments and vaccinations
• Wound care, suture and clip removal
• Urinalysis, ECGs and requesting pathology tests
• Chaperoning patients during examinations by other clinicians
• Checking and reordering emergency drugs at both sites
• Lead nurse for infection control

• Qualified nurse

• Current NMC registration

• Minimum two years in a primary care environment
• Experience working within a nursing team
• Experience dealing with patients
• Experience of prescribing
• Experience of cervical screening, childhood immunisations and health promotion
• Experience of learning disability and SMI reviews, travel advice and immunisations, and chronic disease management

• Computer literacy
• Confident communicator who is flexible and co-operative
• Able to work without direct supervision, prioritise own workload and work under pressure
• Able to work as part of an integrated multi-skilled team
• Flexible enough to cover for colleague absence
• Strict adherence to confidentiality

• Motivated, forward-thinking problem solver willing to develop nursing skills
• High integrity, loyalty, sensitivity and empathy

• Experience of using EMIS Web