Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary Clinical Duties:

1.Meeting patients nursing care needs as identified

2.Review and amendment of nurse protocols as required; this will usually be in surgery but occasional home visits will also be required.

3.If Nurse Prescriber, it's the nurse's responsibility to adhere to any guidelines, protocols or best practice associated with any such additional elements of their role

4.Nursing Management of Chronic Diseases

5.Health screening, for new patients and at identified intervals.

6.Family Planning including contraception initiation and management, follow ups.

7.Womens health including cervical cytology screening. advising on breast self-examination, Pelvic swabs and ring pessary management.

8.HRT review only

9.Wound Management including acute and chronic as well as post operative wound including skin clip and suture removal. Wound care planning for more junior team members.

10.Immunisations

11.Maintain stock of drugs and equipment.

12.Infection prevention and control in line with Priory policies - management of the daily working environment, supporting patients and other colleagues to follow local protocols, safe management of clinical waste including sharps and cytostatic/cytotoxic waste. Correct management of samples

13.Advise management team of equipment failure/maintenance requirements.

14.Contribute to Quality data collation and internal/external audit as required

15.Keep accurate, contemporaneous patient records.

16.Undertaking other duties as required in line with service provision.

17.Maintaining own professional registration.

(This list is not exhaustive and may be subject to alteration, but the role includes all duties that may reasonably fall within the job purpose)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse with current NMC registration

Desirable

• Post graduate diploma VTS completion or degree relating to primary care.
• Non- Medical Prescriber qualification/registration
• Mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Post graduate experience working in a nursing environment in primary or secondary care

Desirable

• Post graduate experience in one or more areas of chronic disease

Skills and Behaviours

Essential

• Capacity and motivation to take in patient/colleague perspective
• Treats patient(s) with sensitivity and personal understanding
• Is empathetic and checks patient needs are satisfied
• Generates safe/ understanding atmosphere
• Identifies their limitations and seeks help/advice appropriately
• Critical thinking
• Efficient resource management
• Approachability

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

Priory Medical Group

Address

Priory Medical Centre

Cornlands Road

York

North Yorkshire

YO24 3WX

Employer's website

https://www.priorymedical.com (Opens in a new tab)