Practice Nurse
Job Description
Job summary
Join a forward thinking, well resourced GP practice in the heart of Warwick excellent facilities, with strong clinical support and real opportunities for professional development.
Priory Medical Centre is a well established, teaching GP partnership serving a list of approximately 19,000 patients, with a modern purpose built main surgery opened in June 2021 and a branch surgery on Woodloes Park.
We're recruiting a Practice Nurse to join a friendly, multidisciplinary team that includes 5 GP partners, salaried GPs, ANPs, trainee ACPs, Nurses, HCAs and strong admin support ideal for nurses who value collaboration and mentorship.
The role offers a varied clinical mix: immunisations, chronic disease reviews - diabetes, COPD, asthma, wound and ulcer care, cytology, travel clinics, minor procedures and contraception services, with opportunities to develop special interests and work to agreed clinical protocols.
Youll work in a teaching practice with GP registrars and medical students, benefiting from ongoing learning, strong QOF/IIF performance, and a practice culture that supports innovation and career progression. Our Practice Nurses attend regular training and often progress onto becoming Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
If you're a compassionate, proactive nurse seeking variety, professional development, and excellent facilities in Warwick, Priory Medical Centre could be the next step in your career.
Main duties of the job
As a Practice Nurse at Priory Medical Centre, you will provide high quality, patient centred nursing care as part of our supportive multidisciplinary team.
Your role will include delivering treatment room services such as wound care, dressings, ECGs, blood pressure monitoring, venepuncture and NHS Health Checks. You will run nurse led clinics, including cervical cytology, childhood and adult immunisations, and long term condition reviews for patients with asthma, COPD, diabetes and hypertension.
You will offer health promotion and lifestyle advice, supporting patients to manage their conditions confidently and independently. Accurate record keeping, safe medicines management and adherence to infection prevention standards are essential parts of the role.
Working within a teaching practice, you will contribute to clinical governance, audits and quality improvement activity, while supporting trainees and learners where appropriate. You will manage your own clinic workload with the backing of an experienced nursing and administrative team, using digital systems to deliver efficient and accessible care.
About us
Priory Medical Centre is a well-established Warwick GP Partnership with a list size of approximately 19,000 patients and one branch surgery. We have 5 GP Partners and a full complement of additional staff including Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and administrative support. We are a recognised training practice for GP Registrars & medical students.
In June 2021, the practice moved into a brand new purpose built surgery designed with patient care in mind. The new building is a modern, energy efficient & fit for purpose building that enables the practice to provide better services to our patients.
The new facilities act as the main surgery, with a branch surgery still available to patients on Woodloes Park at the following address: 1 Brese Avenue, Woodloes Park, Warwick, CV34 5TS.
Our Vision
To provide accessible and cohesive patient centred care in a supportive town centre environment that continually strives to improve
Job responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Practice Nurse. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Assist in and perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed by senior nursing staff and GPs
- Undertake Cytology
- Wound care / ulcer care/Doppler
- Removal of Sutures
- New Patient Medicals/Urinalysis
- Undertake Travel Clinics and offer travel advice to patients
- Complete ECGs as required
- Complete Asthma/Peak Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Obtain blood samples from patients via Venepuncture
- Hypertension Management
- Conduct routine immunisations/childhood immunisations clinics
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Assisting GPs with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Interest in Diabetes or Coronary Heart Disease and Contraception
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate
- To support the Infection Prevention Control (IPC) lead and to work to the IPC Policy supporting the implementation of audits, training, support and evidence of compliance to the Executive Director
- To support the production of the IPC annual statement in conjunction with the Executive Director & IPC Lead
- To assess the needs of patients ensuring the provision of healthcare is appropriate, incorporating evidence-based practice
- To develop, implement and embed health promotion and wellbeing programmes
- To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health
- As required, to provide routine nursing care to patients in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
- To prescribe medication for patients in accordance with PGDs and own scope of practice
- To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)
- To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- To deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Secondary Responsibilities
In addition to the primary responsibilities, the triage nurse may be requested to:
- Support the nursing department
- Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach, i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)
- Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Maintain stock of waiting room leaflets as instructed by the Lead Nurse, Operations Manager & Executive Director
- Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- At all times there will be a need to maintain accurate records
- A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required
- On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
Desirable
- Post Graduate Diploma (or degree in Primary Care related subject)
- Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Primary Care environment
Desirable
- Experience of working as a Practice Nurse or Community Nurse
- Experience of Chronic Disease Management
Clinical Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Chaperone procedure
- Understand the importance of evidence based practice
- Broad knowledge of clinical governance
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
Desirable
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals
- Requesting pathology tests, processing the results, advising patients accordingly
- Travel medicine
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Spirometry
- CHD
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)
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