Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Management of chronic disease

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals

Therapeutic monitoring

• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using an holistic patient-centred approach
• Recognising abnormalities
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.

Wound Care and management

• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)

Patient health checks

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified

Risk assessment

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)

Health screening

• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.

Travel health

• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
• Identifying problems
• Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.

Immunisation (adult and child)

• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
• Providing Contraception services
• Providing a nursing care and performing reviews of patients with Learning Disability

A more detailed job description will be provided at a later stage

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse

Desirable

• experience in general practice and dealing with long term conditions

Experience

Essential

• experience in working for NHS

Desirable

• experience in working in a GP practice

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

City Way Medical Practice

Address

65 – 67 City Way

Rochester

ME1 2AY

Employer's website

https://www.citywaymedicalpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)