Highlands Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on either a full or part-time basis.
Main duties of the job
* Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
* Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients' health and social care needs are met.
* General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long-term condition.
* Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
* Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
* Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
* Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
* Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
* Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
About us
We are a forward-thinking, innovative practice with an ethos that supports development of the whole team. Our objective is to continue to develop a high-quality service for our patients that is sustainable for the future.
As a practice of 14,300 patients, our size enables us to look at different models of care for our patients. We are a 3 GP partner practice supported by 3 salaried GPs, long-term locums, 1 ANP, 4 nurses, 2 HCAs, and a clinical pharmacist. We have a large non-clinical team all with a desire to provide the best service we can. We pride ourselves on supporting staff professional development and personal interests.
We have a Good CQC rating and are consistently high QOF achievers.
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
* Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
Experience
* Competence to undertake asthma, COPD, and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
* Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
* Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
* Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
* Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
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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