Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role:Practice NurseTown:London (Client Site)Part-time:37.5 hours per weekPermanent:Salaried RoleSalary:£34100 - £41572depending on experience

You will be a Registered nurse with the NMC with a minimum of 2 years post registration.

Supported by a multi-disciplinary team and senior colleagues both within the practice and the wider group, you'll focus on the delivery of evidence-based practice for patients presenting with a range of long-term conditions, minor illness and injury, whilst identifying and actively promoting preventative health care which will include screening programmes to the practice population.

As an autonomous practitioner, you will be accountable for the care delivered and you will display critical thinking and skills in decision making in the management of patients.

In addition to your clinical duties you will embrace, support and commit to ensuring that policy and procedure is followed and that high standards are maintained and advanced on

At HCA UK we care about what you care about. We care that you want to deliver the very best care. We care that you want a career you can be proud of. We care that you want working conditions that support your health and wellbeing. Let us care for you and your career, the same way you do for others.

What you'll do:

• Administer Adult/Child vaccinations under agreed PGD/PSD directives
• Participate and support patients attending for travel vaccination, with appropriate training.
• Perform opportunistic and planned health screening checks.
• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies in healthy living.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with long term conditions.
• In addition to your clinical duties you will embrace, support and commit to ensuring that policy and procedure is followed and that high standards are maintained and advanced on
• Provide a treatment service for client employees with minor injuries and illnesses including onwards referral to own GP, in-house GP or hospital emergency services as appropriate
• Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patients needs and evidence-based practice
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing conditions in line with the National service Frameworks.
• Participate in and promote the national screening programmes, including cervical cytology.

What youll bring:

• Excellent patient care skills
• Ability to work independently and determine own priorities as well as work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in Family Planning and in working in a Primary Care setting
• Audit experience
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Flexible attitude to respond to the needs of the department and business
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing
• PGD, ECG, Health promotion, smoking cessation, diet, lifestyle, phlebotomy, travel health
• Sound understanding of clinical governance and safeguarding
• Completion of a Practice Nurse qualification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• You will be a Registered nurse with the NMC with a minimum of 2 years post registration.
• Completion of a Practice Nurse qualification

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

HCA Healthcare UK

Address

242 Marylebone Road

Marylebone

London

NW1 6JQ

Employer's website

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