Practice Nurse
- NHS
- Part Time
- Little Waltham
- Negotiable
Job Description
Job summary
Little Waltham and Great Notley Surgery are looking to welcome a Practice Nurse to the team. This position is offered on ideally a part-time basis, with hours negotiable but you must be flexible and able to cover holidays/sickness.
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments.
- 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.
- Chronic disease management.
- Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
- Family planning clinics.
- 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.
About us
We are a 2-site, friendly training practice with over 21,000 patients. You will be supported by our team of 14 doctors, 3 nurse practitioners, nurses, healthcare assistants, receptionist, and admin team.
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A relevant nursing degree.
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
Experience
Essential
- Diabetes trained.
- Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation including management of chronic disease management, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations and dressing and wound care.
- Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
30 Brook Hill
Little Waltham
Essex
CM3 3LL
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
