Long Stratton Medical Partnership has an exciting opportunity for a practice nurse who has experience in primary healthcare to join our excellent practice, on a full or part time basis for a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
* Responsibility for meeting the nursing care needs of patients identified by the nurse, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by the GP.
* Triage of patients seen in the Treatment Room, or by telephone; offering advice, nursing treatment and/or emergency or routine referral to the doctors, or specialist nurse, or other agencies if appropriate.
* Responsibility for identifying care needs within the practice population, by practice profile or audit; and organising work to best meet the needs identified.
* Managing nursing care of those patients with chronic disease, operating specific clinic sessions if needed, and maintaining an appointment and recall system for patients.
* Liaising with other members of the primary health care team and other agencies, in order to assure appropriate care is provided to the practice population.
* Involvement in policy development within the practice, providing the nursing input in any decision-making processes affecting the care of patients.
* Teaching other practice nurses and other members of the practice nurse team (nursing assistants/phlebotomists).
* Evaluating and adapting nurse methods of patient care as part of regular in-house clinical supervision sessions.
About us
At Long Stratton Medical Partnership, we take pride in being a family focused, close knit team our work family is how we often describe ourselves. We offer a supportive, positive culture which is well-led, and provide regular supervision and training for all staff. Long Stratton is a small town in South Norfolk, 10 miles from the historic city of Norwich. We have 11,500 patients on our list, a CQC rating of Good and operate from both our main site and a branch site in Newton Flotman. We are also a dispensing practice with a dispensing list of around 5,500 patients. We use EMIS Web and run cloud-based telephony which links seamlessly with the clinical system and provides excellent functionality.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
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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