Practice Nurse – Milborne Port Surgery
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Practice Nurse
Part time approximately - 25 hours per week but negotiable.
Location: Milborne Port/Templecombe Surgeries
We are looking for an experienced Practice Nurse with a passion for providing excellent nursing care to deliver general practice nursing services including chronic disease management, cervical cytology, contraception, wound care and supervision of HCAs and phlebotomists. We are a friendly, supportive and caring practice looking for the right candidate for our team.
Main duties of the job:
- Providing a high standard of clinical care
- Particular management of diabetes and/or respiratory conditions
- Dressings/wound care
- Childhood Imms
- Cervical Screening
- Delivery of holistic patient centre care
- Travel advice and vaccinations
Job Description
Main Responsibilities:
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of patients.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily and apply principles of self-care around diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation.
- Manage patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips.
- Administration of immunisations in line with national policy utilising local PGDs.
- Ensuring safe vaccine and cold chain storage.
- Administration of routine injections.
- Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines following local procedures.
- Give women advice on all forms of contraception aiding them to make an informed choice.
- Provide sexual health assessment, advice and direct to appropriate testing, performing swabs if necessary.
- Hypertension checks, liaising with GP when BP out of target.
- Identify and manage 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.
- Utilise EMIS web templates to record clinical data.
- Sign post individuals to relevant organisations.
- Supervise and support the nursing team and HCAs in the clinical area you are working in.
- Accurately document nursing care to NMC standards.
- To carry any other appropriate duties as required.
- According to your skills and experience provide nurse led long term condition clinic for patients with diabetes, CHD, heart failure, stroke/TIA, PAD, hypertension, CKD, diabetes, asthma and COPD as required.
- Provide and document care using EMIS templates in line with NICE guidance, local policies and QOF requirements.
- Perform relevant nurse assessments: spirometry, blood pressure, diabetic foot examination, and lifestyle and peak flow.
- Identify patients who are not within QOF/NICE targets and liaise with GP colleague regarding medication. If inappropriate to treat, document rationale so own GP can consider exception reporting.
- Develop self-management plans for patients with long-term conditions utilising local care planning tools and literature e.g. diabetes hand held record.
- Identify and refer those who would benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation and diabetic educational sessions.
Personal Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
- RGN current NMC registration with minimum 2 years’ experience in primary care practice nursing
- A demonstrable commitment to professional development
- Recent mandatory training in immunisations (HPA standard)
- Safeguarding adult and children
- Cervical cytology practitioner
- In date CPR training (within 18 months)
- Chronic disease management qualification
- Current clean driving licence
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of nurse led chronic disease management clinics
- Experience of working in a multi-professional environment
