Practice Nurse

4 weeks ago

St John's, Canada NHS Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Practice Nurse to join our friendly surgery. We are looking for a candidate full of enthusiasm with drive and determination who is ready for a challenge, to join our team of 2 Nurses and 3 Health Care assistants. The role will be varied and cover all aspects of Practice Nursing with a view to lead on Infection control.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Practice Nurse who is friendly and enthusiastic to provide a high quality of care to our patients. The scope of the role with include Long term condition management, childhood immunisations, cytology, smears, vaccinations, infection control & audits.

The successful candidate will also be confident, have excellent organisations skills, be able to self-manage and be IT proficient.

About us

We are a friendly and committed family practice compromising of 2 GP partners, 2 Salaried GP, Physician associate, 2 Practice Nurses, 3 HCA's and a supportive and experienced administration and Reception team.

We have a list size of approximately 6700 patients, we use EMIS Web as our clinics system with Docman 10 used for document management. We are also now on PATCHS.

We also form part of the Lytham St Annes Primary care network with 4 other Practices.

Job responsibilities

We are recruiting for a Practice Nurse who will fulfil all the traditional core responsibilities of the role, including:

- Long term condition management
- Cytology
- Child Immunisations
- Contraception
- Swabs, specimens, bloods, blood pressures
- Keeping accurate and detailed health records
- Involvement in QOF achievement
- Lead on infection control and Audits

This postholder will also uphold the Surgeries protocols and policies, carrying out their role with compassion and professionalism.

This role will support the wider team with:

- Safeguarding concerns
- Support and participate in shared learning over the Practice
- Support for GPs in patient care
- Monitoring of safe storage, rotation and disposal of medicaments.
- Team Player
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Interested in learning new skills and taking on challenges
- Ability to work in a changing environment

Knowledge and Skills Essential

- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Critical thinking and decision making
- Ability to take initiative
- Infection Control & Audits

Qualifications Essential

- Registered Nurse
- Experience in areas of chronic disease management

Experience Essential

- Experience of working within a nursing team in General Practice
- Experience of Infection control audits

Person Specification

Experience

- Experience of working in a GP Practice
- Experience of Infection control and Audits for GP Practice

Qualifications

- Registered Nurse Qualification

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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