Job summary
Whitby Health Partnership are seeking a Nurse Associate or currently training Nurse Associate to join the team.
Ideally you already have experience in primary care and have completed your Nurse Associate degree or are currently completing this now. You will be looking for further professional development and be open to learning further skills to widen your Practice Nurse repertoire.
The role requires resilience and the ability to be flexible and adaptable. You will be confident to work alone without direct supervision at times; but you will also be part of a wider nursing team, so there will be support available when required. At times you will be required to complete home visits, but you will be based at the practice for the vast majority of the time.
Main duties of the job
Nurses in General Practice deliver care to the local population, but also have an understanding of the public health profile of the area.
A Nurse associate working within General Practice will carry out many routine and requested services for its patients. These range from travel and baby immunisation, chronic disease management, contraception, flu vaccinations, hormone injections and ear irrigation.
There is scope to learn further skills and develop professionally within the pracrice.
About us
Whitby Health Partnership is a large GP Surgery with 16,200 patients offering a variety of health services to its community. We are a new partnership with ambitious plans for the future development of the practice.
The current structure of our nursing team consists of 4 practice nurses and 2 healthcare assistants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Whitby Health Partnership are seeking a Nurse Associate or currently training Nurse Associate to join the team.
Ideally you already have experience in primary care and have completed your Nurse Associate degree or are currently completing this now. You will be looking for further professional development and be open to learning further skills to widen your Practice Nurse repertoire.
The role requires resilience and the ability to be flexible and adaptable. You will be confident to work alone without direct supervision at times; but you will also be part of a wider nursing team, so there will be support available when required. At times you will be required to complete home visits, but you will be based at the practice for the vast majority of the time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Whitby Health Partnership are seeking a Nurse Associate or currently training Nurse Associate to join the team.
Ideally you already have experience in primary care and have completed your Nurse Associate degree or are currently completing this now. You will be looking for further professional development and be open to learning further skills to widen your Practice Nurse repertoire.
The role requires resilience and the ability to be flexible and adaptable. You will be confident to work alone without direct supervision at times; but you will also be part of a wider nursing team, so there will be support available when required. At times you will be required to complete home visits, but you will be based at the practice for the vast majority of the time.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grades A-C in Maths and English
- Nursing Associate degree or currently working through
Desirable
- Diabetic Reviews Routine
- Smears
- Baby Imms
- Age 1 Imms
- Preschool Imms (2)
- Asthma Reviews
- Flu & Covid
- Pill reviews
- Travel Imms
- Depo-Prova
- Sayanna Press
- Hormone Injections
- Pneumonia
- ACWY vaccine
- ECG
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grades A-C in Maths and English
- Nursing Associate degree or currently working through
Desirable
- Diabetic Reviews Routine
- Smears
- Baby Imms
- Age 1 Imms
- Preschool Imms (2)
- Asthma Reviews
- Flu & Covid
- Pill reviews
- Travel Imms
- Depo-Prova
- Sayanna Press
- Hormone Injections
- Pneumonia
- ACWY vaccine
- ECG
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).
