Practice Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated nurse to join our well-established multi-disciplinary team.

The role is advertised as part-time, 25 hours a week, but hours are open to negotiation, St David's are flexible on the working pattern.

The focus of the role is both the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with a chronic condition, and the provision of preventative health care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will see patients with minor illnesses and assist with chronic disease management managing reviews and recalls.

In addition, they will work collaboratively within the Primary and Community Healthcare Team to meet the needs of all patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures, and provide nurse leadership as required.

The post holder will contribute to the delivery of high quality nursing care, providing specialist advice and clinical services to patients.

Responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient needs.

They will work clinically alongside members of the Nursing Team and wider multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of effective, efficient, appropriate quality evidence-based care to patients.

To act as an accountable role model and clinical expert for healthcare.

Work in conjunction with other disciplines in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of healthcare service provision to ensure a smooth patient pathway through the service.

To collect and input clinical data to clinical systems: to access and utilise all available clinical information to support care planning and patient management, and support others to do the same.

To ensure effective and safe medicines management processes are adhered to.

To identify target groups for vaccination e.g. flu vaccine, to collect data via clinical reporting systems, and prepare reports on uptake percentages.

About us

St Davids is a forward thinking, supportive teaching/training practice with a combined list size of 21,000 patients over 3 sites. We are committed to providing high quality care to our patients & the continued education & development of our practice workforce.

The Practice consists of 6 GP Partners, 8 salaried GP's, 3 Practice Nurses, 4 HCA's, 1 Phlebotomist, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 1 Physician Associate, 1 Physiotherapist, 2 Practice Pharmacists, 2 Pharmacist technicians along with a very supportive administrative and reception team providing care for patients and their families in a way we believe is best, delivering high standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.