Practice Nurse (Fully trained)
Hope Family Medical Centre is a friendly, happy place to work with 7 GPs, 2 APP's, 4 Practice nurses, 2 Health care assistants and a paramedic practitioner. We support a practice list of 10200 patients in a large semi\-rural setting.
The postholder will be expected to work at Hope Family Medical Centre to provide core primary care nursing and chronic disease management. This will involve working with the Practice nursing team and GPs to provide clinically effective care and support the practice in achieving quality indicators and targets.
We a recruiting for a fully trained Practice Nurse.
The Practice Nurse will be required to hold patient consultations within the Surgery, carrying out chronic disease management of Diabetes, Asthma, Heart disease (and providing healthy living advice) and routine screening e.g smears, immunisations (adults and children) and wound management. Compliance with Nursing Code of Conduct will be expected.
It would be desirable to have experience in contraception and travel vaccinations but not necessary, as training can be provided.
Writing records and keeping patients notes up to date is essential and accurate record keeping in line with practice policy and NMC Guidelines. Adherence to practice policies and guidelines on body fluid, sharps injury, clinical waste, and manual handling will be required. In addition to being up to date with safeguarding training.
The workload will be a mix of planned review appointments and some on the day minor illness appointments. The ability to prioritise and use time effectively in the daily workload and organise patient care is required.
The Practice Nurse may be required to provide first aid and management of emergencies alongside the medical team if required.
We are looking for a Practice Nurse to work 27\-36 hours per week over 3 or 4 days a week.
Full registration with Nursing council and clean DBS check will be required
Expected hours: 27\.0 – 36\.0 per week
Benefits:
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On\-site parking
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