Practice Nurse

Job summary

Station Lane Medical Centre is a well established practice with a list size of approx 7,800 patients. We are a hardworking, rapidly moving, pro-active, high achieving Practice in Featherstone, Pontefract.

We are looking to recruit a Practice Nurse to join our busy and friendly team here at Station Lane Medical Centre. We would welcome applicants from community nursing or secondary care settings. We offer excellent training opportunities.

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients.

The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners.

The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available.

Main duties of the job

Chronic Disease Management: Contribute to the management of patients with chronic diseases, identified by QOF in particular, Asthma, COPD, CHD, CVD, Depression and Diabetes. Learning Disabilities and Mental Health.

Health Promotion: Address patient in order to identify problems of: Diet, Exercise, Smoking Cessation, Obesity, Alcohol, Drug misuse, Family Planning.

Health Screening : Organisation and management of health screening activities for patient Immunisations, Cervical cytology, Well person checks and Child health & Child Protection

Infection Control: Adopt infection control measures within the Practice according to the Infection Control Manual.

Administrative and professional responsibilities: Ensure accurate notes associated with patient health care are recorded in the patients notes on the clinical system.

Attend Practice meetings and participate in an annual performance review of your own personal and professional development.

Confidentiality: In the course of your duties you will have access to confidential information relating to patients, all such information is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

About us

You must be motivated, wanting to join a happy and cohesive team, have a committed, flexible and approachable outlook with the desire to deliver high quality patient health care in a supportive environment.

This is a great opportunity for a Nurse with the relevant skills and experience to join a friendly team in a practice achieving high patient satisfaction.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Management of chronic disease

Identifying significant abnormalities Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals

Wound Care and management

Assessing routine wounds including trauma Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations

Patient health checks

Identifying significant abnormalities Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified

Risk assessment

Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer ( drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)

Health screening

Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer ( womens and mens health, sexual health, older people) Undertaking monitoring tasks ( smears) and providing advice as appropriate Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel health

Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines Identifying problems Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.

Immunisation (adult and child)

Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Nursing Degree and registration Qualification Member of NMC

Desirable

Diabetes diploma Mangement of wound care Diploma or equivalent in Asthma and COPD Cytology Vaccinations and Immunisations including travel

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