Job summary
We are looking for either a Nurse Associate or a Registered General Nurse (RGN) to support the Practice Nurse Team at Strayside Health (in Mowbray Square Medical Centre).
We are looking for a candidate to join us for one or two days per week (hours can be flexible) to carry out Practice Nurse duties including:
- Administration of injectable medications
- Wound care (including leg ulcer management)
- Immunisations (children and adults)
- Ear syringing
- ECGs/Dopplers
- Phlebotomy
- Ring pessary changes
- Management of long term conditions (diabetes, hypertension etc)
Main duties of the job
- Administration of injectable medications
- Wound care (including leg ulcer management)
- Immunisations (children and adults)
- Ear syringing
- ECGs/Dopplers
- Phlebotomy
- Ring pessary changes
- Management of long term conditions (diabetes, hypertension etc)
About us
Strayside Health (formerly East Parade and Park Parade Practice) has always been progressive and keen to embrace change whilst maintaining the
traditional values of patient centred general practice.
One of our partners is the Clinical Director
of the Mowbray Square PCN, which places us in an excellent position to lead on
new ways of working and maximise the benefits of close relationships with our
colleagues in the allied health professions.
We have a great team ethos in our workforce,
with strong staff retention. We are friendly and supportive with a focus on
staff wellbeing.
Our practices are based within a fantastic, spacious,
new purpose-built leased building close to the town centre, with its own car
park.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for either a Nurse Associate or a Registered General Nurse with Primary Care experience who can join our team on a fixed-term basis.
Hours can be flexible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for either a Nurse Associate or a Registered General Nurse with Primary Care experience who can join our team on a fixed-term basis.
Hours can be flexible.
Person Specification
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Complex wound care
- Removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- Requesting and processing pathology tests, advising patients accordingly
- Understand the requirement for PGDs
- Ability to record accurate and concise clinical notes
- Ability to work within the scope of own practice
- Immunisations
- Chronic disease management
Personal Qualitites
Essential
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Familiarity with issues of service organisation, transformation and development
- Adhere to policies around confidentiality, health & safety, equality & diversity
- Calm and objective
- Confident, yet approachable
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Non-judgemental, respectful of others privacy, needs & beliefs
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to address and work to overcome any equality, diversity and rights of service users
- Identify and mitigate potential risks to health, safety and policy
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the NMC
- Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease Management)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Experience of working autonomously
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- Experience of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience of managing elderly and housebound patients
- Experience of quality initiatives, i.e., benchmarking
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and non-verbally daily
- Practical problem-solving skills
- Accurate written and verbal communication of information
- Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people affected by adverse life events
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to ask sensitively about information needs
- Ability to retrieve and consolidate information from a wide range of sources and in different formats
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
Person Specification
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Complex wound care
- Removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- Requesting and processing pathology tests, advising patients accordingly
- Understand the requirement for PGDs
- Ability to record accurate and concise clinical notes
- Ability to work within the scope of own practice
- Immunisations
- Chronic disease management
Personal Qualitites
Essential
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Familiarity with issues of service organisation, transformation and development
- Adhere to policies around confidentiality, health & safety, equality & diversity
- Calm and objective
- Confident, yet approachable
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Non-judgemental, respectful of others privacy, needs & beliefs
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to address and work to overcome any equality, diversity and rights of service users
- Identify and mitigate potential risks to health, safety and policy
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with the NMC
- Post graduate diploma or degree (Chronic Disease Management)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Experience of working autonomously
- Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
- Experience of infection prevention and control measures
- Experience of managing elderly and housebound patients
- Experience of quality initiatives, i.e., benchmarking
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and non-verbally daily
- Practical problem-solving skills
- Accurate written and verbal communication of information
- Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people affected by adverse life events
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to ask sensitively about information needs
- Ability to retrieve and consolidate information from a wide range of sources and in different formats
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
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).
Additional information
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).