Practice NurseNHS

Job summary

Burwell Surgery is looking for an experienced practice nurse to join our well regarded and supportive team to assist the practice to provide excellent care to patients.

You must be able to work as part of a team, have the ability to organise and prioritise own workload on a day-to-day basis.

Main duties of the job

The main duties will include all aspects of treatment room services including dressings, vaccines and cervical smears.

The role will also include involvement in chronic disease management and training can be provided to support this.

Job description

Job Title Practice Nurse

Location Burwell Surgery

Accountable to Practice Manager

Hours 18 to 27 hours

JOB SUMMARY

To assist Burwell Surgery in providing a friendly and caring service to patients to support health monitoring and chronic disease management.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Treatment room duties eg. dressings, suture removal, swabs, cervical smears, venepuncture, routine vaccinations, contraception service.
• Disease management and health promotion clinics eg. diabetic, asthma, smoking, weight, patient health checks, leg ulcer
• Regularly checking medical equipment to ensure serviced and maintained.
• Infection control and prevention
• Admin to include completing patient record books as necessary and keeping accurate record on medical records system.
• Deal with tasks received via multiple routes eg. SystmOne, AskmyGP and email
• Attend training sessions to keep knowledge up to date
• Attend meetings as requested by your Manager to ensure you are up to date on organisation policies and procedures

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

All Burwell Surgery staff and other health providers

OTHER

This job description is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and in consultation with the jobholder.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Company policies and procedure - To adhere to Burwell Surgery agreed policies and procedures.

Equal Opportunities - To promote and develop the equality of opportunity in accordance with Burwell Surgerys Equal Opportunities Policy.

Confidentiality - To protect the confidentiality of information relating to Burwell Surgery, Patient and Staff or other agencies

Quality - To provide a quality service to internal and external agencies.

Health and Safety -To share responsibility for abiding by Health and Safety policies and regulations and acting in accordance with the Risk Management Policy.

Lone Working - You may have to work alone, and therefore you are required to adhere to the relevant lone working policy.

Risk Management - All members of staff have a responsibility to report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly and when requested to, co-operate with any investigation undertaken.

About us

Burwell Surgery is a village based GP practice providing healthcare to 9600 patients. We are a training practice who are dedicated to supporting professional development.

Providing high quality service and patient care is at the heart of what we do.