Locum Practice NurseNHS
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and reliable Locum Practice Nurse to join our friendly team. You will provide high-quality general practice nursing care, supporting our permanent team during busy periods, sickness cover, or practice expansion.
Main duties of the job
- Treatment Room: Wound care, dressings, ear care, and suture/staple removal (where competent).
- Immunisations & Vaccinations: Childhood and travel immunisations (including relevant PGDs).
- Chronic Disease Management: Supporting/running clinics for asthma, COPD, and diabetes.
- Cervical Cytology: Performing cervical screening in line with current guidelines
- Patient Records: Maintaining accurate, contemporaneous patient records and clinical coding.
Job description
- 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.
- Able to 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.
- Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
- Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines
- Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines.
- Suture removal.
- Able to recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
- Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
- Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
- Confidentially of information gained at work must be preserved at all times.
- Provide management of chronic diseases such as Diabetes, COPD and Asthma
- Contribute to the assessment of service needs.
- Assist patients to identify their health needs.
- Manage and organise individual patient consultations.
- Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.
- To attend staff meetings.
- Identify changes to clinical practice that are required to implement evidence-based guidelines.
- Support others with their training and development needs.
- To participate in continuing education and maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills.
- Maintain good industrial relations.
- Take reasonable care of his/her own safety and that of other persons who may be affected by his/her act or omission.
- Facilitates a learning environment within the team.
- Maintains a caring environment through the support of colleagues.
About us
We are a forward-thinking, supportive GP practice based in Ashford, Surrey. Our clinical team values safe workloads, sensible appointment templates, and collaborative multidisciplinary team working to ensure excellent patient care.