Practice Nurse

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Newport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for an experienced practice nurse to join their team for 30 hours per week. The successful candidate will manage chronic diseases and perform health assessments, administer medication, and develop personalized health plans for patients. Applicants need a relevant nursing degree and current NMC registration, along with demonstrated clinical skills. This role offers a supportive environment to work in conjunction with the needs of the patients and the practice.

Benefits

NHS Pension Scheme

Life insurance

Family benefits

Health service discounts

Free parking

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD clinics.
• Experience in treatment room consultation and wound care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct health assessments and administer treatments.
• Provide health interventions and evaluate patient needs.
• Manage and treat long-term conditions.

Skills

Chronic disease management

Compassionate manner

Phlebotomy

ECG recording

Vaccinations and immunisations

Education

Relevant nursing degree

Job description

About the Role

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team for 30 hours per week. We are looking for experience in chronic disease management, ideally respiratory or CVD.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• 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.
• 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.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Competence to undertake asthma and COPD 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.
• 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.

About Us

Thedoctors and staff at Newport Pagnell Medical Centre are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.We run many clinics for the management oflong-term conditions such as asthma and diabetesand offer a wide variety of other medical servicesincluding antenatal, postnatal care, minor surgery and childhood vaccinations.

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children’s pension
• Ill health benefits
• 20%employer contribution
• Health service discounts
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking at all our sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.