Practice Nurse (20 hours per week)

Primary Care Careers

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Job summary

Sovereign Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for a practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 20 hours per week, covering Tuesday and Friday all day and Thursday mornings.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include:

  • Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
  • Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.

About us

We offer an NHS pension.

For further information please email:sovereignmc@nhs.netor call01908 209420.

Date posted

27 June 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

M0038-23-5544

Job locations

Sovereign Medical Centre

Sovereign Drive

Pennyland

Milton Keynes

MK15 8AJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties (continued):

  • General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
  • Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.
  • Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
  • Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
  • New patient and health checks.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties (continued):

  • General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
  • Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for family planning and cervical cytology consultations.
  • Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
  • Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
  • New patient and health checks.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A relevant nursing degree.
  • Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
  • Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
  • Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.

About the Candidate

Essential

  • You will have a full range of skills including, dressings, compression bandaging, childhood immunisations, ECGs, cervical screening, family planning and venepuncture.
  • Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
  • Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
  • Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A relevant nursing degree.
  • Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
  • Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications.
  • Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.

About the Candidate

Essential

  • You will have a full range of skills including, dressings, compression bandaging, childhood immunisations, ECGs, cervical screening, family planning and venepuncture.
  • Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
  • Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
  • Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

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).

Additional information

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

Primary Care Careers

Address

Sovereign Medical Centre

Sovereign Drive

Pennyland

Milton Keynes

MK15 8AJ


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care Careers

Address

Sovereign Medical Centre

Sovereign Drive

Pennyland

Milton Keynes

MK15 8AJ


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Primary Care Careers

eoe.primarycarecareers@nhs.net

07966211098

Date posted

27 June 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

M0038-23-5544

Job locations

Sovereign Medical Centre

Sovereign Drive

Pennyland

Milton Keynes

MK15 8AJ


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