Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Part time, 30 hours per week.

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Provide vaccination and travel medicine services
• Provide wound care (ulcer /Doppler etc.) to patients
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process pathology results as required
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Provide NHS health checks
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Maintain baby immunisation results logs
• Maintain smears results logs
• Manage emergency drug kit

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Primary care experience as a practice nurse, able to carry out wound care chronic disease review including COPD review, immunisation for adult and children

Desirable

• Able to carry out asthma review, cervical smear

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

Crosland Moor Surgery

Address

11 Park Road West

Huddersfield

HD4 5RX

Employer's website

https://www.croslandmoorsurgery.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)