Practice Nurse

Job responsibilities

The prospective Practice Nurse will hold a Registered General Nurse qualification and have an active registration with the NMC, have excellent communication skills with an ability to prioritise your workload and be a Team player ready to assist your work colleagues if required.

Experience in chronic disease case management including, asthma, COPD, Diabetes, CHD and INR star. Also experience in the following nursing procedures; cervical cytology, childhood immunizations, cardiac monitoring and ECGs, travel immunizations, minor illness, wound care and phlebotomy.

Hours of works can be negotiated between 8.30 - 6.00 pm Monday to Friday and some flexibility is required.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Experience of working within a primary care setting as a Practice Nurse.
• Experience of chronic disease management including asthma, CHD, Diabetes, Hypertension.
• Experience of carrying out ECG's, venapuncture, cervical cytology, wound care, travel medicine, womens health, mens health, childhood immunizations.
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising
• patients accordingly
• New patient medicals
• Chaperone procedure
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and to understand
• when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Able to communicate effectively and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Effectively utilises resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
• Flexibility to work outside core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health clearance

Desirable

• Experience of Emis web

Qualifications

Essential

• Must have:
• Registered General Nurse Qualification
• Active NMC Registration

Desirable

• Emis Web experience
• Audit experience

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).