The post holder is responsible for the delivery of basic practice nursing services care to the practice population. Supported by senior nurses within the practice, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities. They will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership as required.
The successful candidate will be an exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who is enthusiastic and committed to join the team. The ideal candidate will have experience of primary care, chronic disease management, diabetes, first contact and telephone triage.
Candidate must possess a practice nurse qualification with at least two years’ experience. Long term conditions experience is desirable.
The successful applicant for this post will be joining us at a particularly exciting time as we develop and expand our service.
Main duties of the job
* Promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
* Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition
* Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
* Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
* Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments
* Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
* Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals
* Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
* Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultations
* Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
* Advise, support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients travelling abroad
About us
IntraHealth is one of the UK’s leading providers of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.
We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well-established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.
We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and highly motivated Practice Nurse to provide a high quality service to our patients within our William Brown Centre.
Our aim is to provide an excellent standard of primary care whilst supporting personal and professional development.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
* Excellent clinical skills.
* Demonstrate appropriate professional and personal boundaries.
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
* Respects the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
* Experience of relevant clinical systems.
* Skills including: Venepuncture, ECG, wound care, adult/children vaccination and immunisation. Health Education, cervical cytology, ear irrigation, spirometry and NHS health checks.
* Qualification/Experience in running chronic disease management clinics.
* Cryotherapy.
Experience
* At least 1 year experience of working in general practice.
* Experience of treatment room duties required for the post.
* Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care.
* Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
* Experience of quality initiatives such as QOF and KPIs
* Chronic Disease Management experience in 1 or more chronic diseases.
* Knowledge of local health issues.
* Awareness of local and national health policy
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse
* Current NMC registration and revalidation with NMC
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Work without direct supervision.
* Qualifications/experience in Cervical cytology.
* Childhood immunisation and travel vaccination.
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.
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