GP Practice nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Overall Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver a high standard of patient care using high level autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base
• Deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting. Responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.
• Promote healthy lifestyles and participate in national immunisation and screening programmes.
• Enable patients to manage their long term health care needs and to achieve their full potential in terms of independent living.
• Actively encourage and facilitate choices for patients by providing health promotion during routine screening procedures e.g: new patient health checks, cervical cytology and long term conditions management.
• Communicate complex information to patients and relatives where needed with a variety of diverse needs, using negotiation and persuasive skills to motivate.
• Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure the National Service Frameworks are being delivered.

Clinical Responsibilities:

Undertake clinical duties with relevant training in some or all of the areas:

• Adult and paediatric immunisations
• Smears
• Management of chronic conditions
• Dressings/stitch removal
• Phlebotomy
• Vaccinations

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the NMC)
• Qualification in cytology and or family planning
• Competent with adult and child immunisations

Desirable

• Chronic disease management
• Area of special interest ie respiratory/diabetes
• Willingness to supervise trainees

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience.
• Experience of working in community/primary care
• Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up to date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of practice nurse role.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries
• within health and social care.
• Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of
• own clinical 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

The Molebridge Practice

Address

148-152 Kingston Road

Leatherhead

KT22 7PZ

Employer's website

https://www.themolebridgepractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)