Practice Nurse

Job summary

To be responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.

The practice nurse will be responsible for a number of clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, infection control, health prevention, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

Main duties of the job

• 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
• Develop, implement, and embed well woman clinics
• Develop, implement, and embed well man clinics
• 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
• Infection control lead for the practice

About us

Vesta Road Surgery is a GP Surgery located near to Brockley train station.

We are a small and supportive team.

The practice aim is to provide high quality caring and personal health care services to our whole population by putting our patients at the center of what we do. Having a highly qualified and trained multi-professional integrated primary healthcare team. Offering our services in a safe supportive and suitably equipped environment, using technological advances in healthcare systems for our patients benefit.