PRACTICE NURSE

Job Details

28.5 hour per week

We are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective Practice Nurse to join our friendly team in Botesdale. We are a rural GMS 9900 patient surgery with 4 Partners, 4 Salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site Dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.

To assist medical personnel in the care of practice patients, to include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education.

Duties and Responsibilities of Post

• Provide assessment, screening treatment, services and health education advice.
• Assist with the organisation and co-ordination of the provision of nursing services for the practice.
• Provide nursing treatment to patients in participation with general practitioners, using agreed protocols, including the taking of cervical smears and care of leg ulcers.

• Provide general and specific health screening to the practice patients (within the agreed protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.
• Be competent in administration of childhood immunisation and travel vaccination.
• Be competent and confident in managing people with long-term health conditions.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug-and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Work with patients in order to support compliance with, and adherence to, prescribed treatments.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication, medication regimes, side-effects and interactions.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Maintain and control injectable and oral drug stocks in the treatment room and doctors surgeries.
• Advise manager regarding health and safety aspects.  Pathological specimens and investigatory procedures
• Undertake the collection of pathological specimens, including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears, etc.
• Oversee the duties undertaken by the HCA and assist with training and mentoring as and when required.
• Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.
• Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded adequately on the computer.
• Assist in the formulation of practice philosophy, strategy and policy.

Professional Development

• Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (eg courses and conferences)
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

 General

• Staff must behave in a professional and discreet manner at all times.
• Patient and professional confidentiality is of prime importance. Any breach of confidentiality can result in immediate suspension/dismissal
• Staff must demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Desirable

• Registered Prescriber

CVs to be sent to donna.szukalski@nhs.net

Closing Date: Friday 31^st May 2024