Practice Nurse

Birchwood Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated practice nurse to join our dedicated teamof 2 practice nurses, 1 nursing associate and 2 HCAs/phlebotomists. The post is for 16 hours per week, Monday and Tuesday, 9.00 am to 5.30 pm.

The successful candidate should be experienced inprimary care with key skills to include chronic disease management (including diabetes,asthma, COPD), childhood immunisations, travel vaccinations, cervical cytology,OQF and other routine practice nurse duties such as BP checks, dressings, ear syringing and ECGs, although training opportunities may be available for theright candidate. You will provide high quality care to all our registered patients, working within your own competenceand professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC.

Consultations may be face to face or via telephone as appropriate.

We are a friendly, supportive training practice of 11,200patients and operate from well-equipped, purpose-built premises on the outskirts of Warrington. We comprise of 3 Partners, 7 salaried GPs, 1 nurse clinician, 1GP Registrar, 1 FY2 and medical students. We have a supportive reception and admin team, as well as an expanding compliment of ARRs staff including a clinical pharmacist, first contact practitioners, a mental health practitioner, a care co-ordinator and a social prescribing link worker.

We are located close to junctions on both theM6 and M62 and the train station is just a few minutes walk away. We are actively involved with the East Warrington

PCN, which comprises 2 other local practices. We are CQC rated good and have a consistently high QOF achievement.

• To work as part of the primary healthcare/nursing team with the responsibility for delivering safe and effective nursing care, with a focus on delivering evidence based practice for patients with long term conditions and management and nursing interventions
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with chronic diseases
• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions
• Maintain robust call and recall systems
• Offera holistic approach to travel health by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including vaccinations and medicines
• Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions
• Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, dealing with minor illness.
• Ableto document consultations according to NMC guidelines
• Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
• Performa holistic assessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
• Performvenepuncture according to local guidelines
• Providea holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in linewith current evidence based guidelines
• Ableto recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines
• Ableto perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines
• Abilityto obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written)
• Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained
• Abilityto monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration and emergency equipment
• Urinalysis
• ECGs
• Peakflow readings
• Blood pressure measurements
• Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
• Assisting
  
  GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
• Requesting basic pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
• Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate

Any other delegated duties appropriate to thepost.

• Experience of working as a practice or community nurse
• Experience in nurse-led management of long term conditions

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent general nursing skills delivered with compassion and understanding
• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Ability to work autonomously or as part of an integrated, multi-skilled team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to use own initiative

• Full NMC registration
• Chronic disease management
• Adult and child immunisations
• Cytology

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.