Job summary
Old Road Medical Practiceis looking to recruit a nurse prescriber to join our multi-disciplinary team.
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
Old Road Medical Practice is a long standing GP partnership practice in the heart of Clacton on Sea.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see theattached job specification.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
16. Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
Qualifications
Essential
17. A relevant nursing degree.
18. Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
19. Independent Nurse Prescriber.
20. Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications;
21. Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.