Practice NurseNHS

Job summary

Practice Nurse

Flexible - 19 hours per week plus overtime. Salary Competitive. NHS Pension

Silton Surgery is seeking to recruit a motivated, committed and enthusiastic experienced Practice Nurse to work 19 hours per week starting at the beginning of January.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder must have previous experience of working in primary care and proficiency in managing long term conditions.

In addition you will be required to undertake full treatment room duties, including immunisations, dressings, removal of sutures, cervical smear taking and anti-coagulation monitoring. Experience in additional areas including travel immunisations and family planning are desirable

The shift pattern comprises duties across four days of the week to dovetail with the other practice nurse. Flexibility is required to cross cover annual leave.

Mondays 8.30-3.30 7hrs

Tuesdays 2:00-7:00 5hrs

Wednesday day off

Thursday day off

Friday 8:30-3:30 7hrs Total: 19 Hours

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder must work as part of a team, have the ability to organise and prioritise their own workload on a day to day basis, and observe strict rules about confidentiality at all times. They must also know the limits of their own capabilities and seek direction from a GP.

They must have previous experience of working in primary care and proficiency in managing long term conditions. In addition you will be required to undertake full treatment room duties, including immunisations, dressings, removal of sutures, cervical smear taking and anti-coagulation. Experience in additional areas including travel immunisations and family planning are desirable.

Working strictly in accordance with specific practice or national guidelines, the Practice Nurse will assist the practice clinical team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care.

The post holder must maintain registration with NMC, maintaining its Code of Conduct to protect the public through professional standards. Fulfil their learning requirements.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide efficient, professional nursing care to patients
• Manage chronic diseases e.g. Hypertension, Asthma, COPD. Developing an integrated approach to chronic diseases within the Primary Health Care Team and being actively involved in their clinical management.
• Carry out immunisation clinics and associated admin
• Carry out travel immunisation clinics and associated admin.
• Undertake preventative and treatment clinics for the general nursing care of patients including dressings, removal of sutures, ECGs, and blood pressures.
• Undertake wound management (e.g. leg ulcers)
• Provide a comprehensive vaccination service
• Provide nursing care in minor injuries
• Provide a cervical smear service, family planning information and advice
• Health promotion activities like NHS health checks and smokestop.
• Ear syringing is performed at the practice.
• Maintain clinical areas and equipment, sterilisation of instruments, stock control, drugs and sundry items
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous records, both written and electronic
• Establish diagnoses to set protocols (e.g. BP, blood tests, ECG recordings etc)
• Participate in clinical call and recall systems and record results
• Undertake clinical audits and assist with administration of recalls
• Perform other clinical tasks as trained and agreed to meet the needs of the practice
• Be involved in identifying practice clinical needs
• Perform any other tasks within the skills of the post holder

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Application Process

If you have any questions regarding the post, please contact Dr Harding at [email protected] or 01747 840226.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter to the surgery.

Please do not apply via NHS Jobs.

We will not be conversing with recruitment agencies regarding this post.

About us

We are a small, supportive, forward thinking GP practice with a happy, experienced workforce providing care to approx. 2800 patients.

There is a strong emphasis on high quality person-centred patient care, education and personal development.

We are a rural dispensing practice situated at the intersection of Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. We are a Wiltshire CCG practice.

The practice has a stable clinical team of a GP partner, a locum GP, two practice nurses, GP assistant and Pharmacy tec.

We are supported by an experienced admin team who cover reception, admin and dispensing.

We use Systm1 as a practice system supported with other software like INRstar and AccuRx.