About the role
Salary: Negotiable
Practice Nurse (Part-Time Up to 3 Days per Week) Tadworth Medical Centre, Surrey
The successful candidate will deliver a full range of general
practice nursing services, including the management of long-term conditions
such as asthma, COPD, and diabetes. You will also be qualified in childhood and
adult immunisations, travel health services, cervical screening, wound care,
and health promotion clinics as well as spirometry and supporting patients to make positive lifestyle changes.
Offer a holistic approach to travel health by providing comprehensive advice to patients prior to travel including; vaccinations and medicines, safe sex, food hygiene, sun protection.
Offer advice about childhood and adult vaccinations and ensure vaccines are administered under patient group directions.
Running well person clinics and health promotion programmes by providing a holistic assessment and lifestyle advice on diet, smoking, alcohol intake and exercise. Facilitates change.
Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, dealing with minor illness.
Able to document Consultations according to NMC guidelines
Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse.
Perform a holistic assessment of patients attending for cervical cytology smear tests.
Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines
Provide a holistic approach to wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence based guidelines.
Perform contraceptive reviews
Suture removal.
Take ECGs
- Able to recognize and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.
- Able to perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.
- Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).
- Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
- Ability to monitor and manage maintenance of stock and equipment to include refrigeration, sterilizer and emergency equipment.
- Confidentially of information gained at work must be preserved at all times.
- Provide management of chronic diseases such as Diabetes, COPD and Asthma
Spirometry
- Contribute to the assessment of service needs.
- Assist patients to identify their health needs.
- Contribute a nursing perspective to the practice development plan.
- Manage and organise individual patient consultations.
- Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.
- To attend staff meetings.
- Ensure effective relationships and communications with the PHCT and other agencies.
- Support the Practice clinical governance agenda.
- Identify changes to clinical practice that are required to implement evidence-based guidelines.
- Identify personal development and training needs in conjunction with the manager.
- Participate in clinical supervision.
- Support others with their training and development needs.
- To participate in continuing education and maintain a contemporary level of professional knowledge and skills.