Job summary
Two Rivers Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team, on apart-time basis for 30 hours per week, over 4 days.
Main duties of the job
1. Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
2. Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
3. 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.
4. Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
5. 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.
6. Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
7. Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
8. Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
9. Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
10. Hypertension review and management.
11. Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
12. New patient and health checks.
About us
As an employee of Two Rivers Medical Centre, you will enjoy the following benefits:
13. Genuine responsibility from day one.
14. Work with a strong social purpose.
15. A competitive salary with increments based on professional development.
16. Membership of the NHS pension.
17. Support to guide your personal and professional development.
18. Excellent training and development opportunities.
19. Working in a purpose built facility.
20. Working in the largest single site GP surgery in Suffolk.
21. 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing with continual years of NHS service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
22. A relevant nursing degree.
23. Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
24. Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
25. Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
Desirable
26. 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, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
27. 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.
28. Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
29. Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.