Practice NurseNHS
Job summary
Melrose Surgery is a forward thinking inner city practice, looking to employ a committed and enthusiastic full time practice nurse to join our team of 2 Nurses.
This is an opportunity to build on your existing high quality clinical skills a s member of a cohesive, energetic and proactive team.
Main duties of the job
Cervical Smears, Childhood Immunisations, Adult Immunisations, Seeing patients for Long Term conditions, dressings, ECG's, suture removing, wound checks. This list is not exhaustive.
Job description
The Practice Nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as helping with infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, health promotion, well women and well man clinics, as well as actively supporting the practice management team in the reviewing and delivery of clinical policy and procedure. The successful candidate will be able to:
- obtaining blood samples
- electrocardiograms(ECGs)
- minor and complex wound management including leg ulcers
- travel health advice and vaccinations
- child immunisations and advice
- family planning & womens health including cervical smears
- mens health screening
- sexual health services
- smoking cessation
- screening and helping patients to manage long term conditions
- Cervical screening
About us
We have 17,500 patients over two sites. Personal Medical Services are provided by four GP partners, 4 Salaried GP, GP Retainer, GP Trainees, one long term locum, Two practice nurses, 3 Health Care Assistants, GP Assistants, a Pharmacy team. A strong administrative team and a capable reception team ably support them.
We are a high QOF achieving practice rated Good by CQC. We use Emis Web and Docman 10 We encourage and support continued personal development, training and education. We offer a competitive rate of pay.