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Practice Nurse

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Job summary

The Humbleyard Practice is recruiting additional practice nurses to meet the demands from our rapidly growing patient population to the south west of Norwich. We are a flexible employer and in a position to negotiate working hours across the week.

Main duties of the job

The Humbleyard Practice covers the area south of Norwich catering for approximately 22,200 patients. It operates from three separate surgeries in the villages of Cringleford, Hethersett and Mulbarton and provides a comprehensive range of primary medical care services for its patients and carers. In recent years, the practice has reviewed its provision and skill mix of practice nursing and has introduced a peripatetic approach to some of these services, with staff operating as a team across the three surgeries.

About us

We are a large, semi-rural, dispensing, research and GP training practice operating over three surgery sites to the southwest of the fine city of Norwich. We have a fast-growing list size of 22,000 patients and we are part of the 5-practice Ketts Oak Primary Care Network

Details

Date posted

19 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£17 to £21 an hour depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

M0038-23-6376

Job locations

Cringleford Surgery

Cantley Lane

Norwich

NR4 6TA


Job description

Job responsibilities

These are exciting times for practice nursing and we are working with the team to put in place a training and development structure to allow our nursing team to stretch themselves and develop their career in a mutually beneficial way within the practice.

The main responsibilities of the role 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.
  • 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.
  • Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
  • Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
  • 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 sexual health and contraception, 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.
  • Hypertension review and management.
  • Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
  • New patient and health checks.

Job description

Job responsibilities

These are exciting times for practice nursing and we are working with the team to put in place a training and development structure to allow our nursing team to stretch themselves and develop their career in a mutually beneficial way within the practice.

The main responsibilities of the role 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.
  • 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.
  • Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
  • Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
  • 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 sexual health and contraception, 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.
  • Hypertension review and management.
  • Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
  • New patient and health checks.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
  • 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 and certification to undertake one or more of:
  • asthma,
  • COPD and
  • diabetic clinics and reviews
  • Evidence of clinical skills and experience in one or more of the following:
  • treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions,
  • cervical cytology sampling,
  • vaccinations and immunisations,
  • assisting with minor surgery,
  • dressing and wound care, and
  • recording spirometry.
  • 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

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
  • 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 and certification to undertake one or more of:
  • asthma,
  • COPD and
  • diabetic clinics and reviews
  • Evidence of clinical skills and experience in one or more of the following:
  • treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions,
  • cervical cytology sampling,
  • vaccinations and immunisations,
  • assisting with minor surgery,
  • dressing and wound care, and
  • recording spirometry.
  • 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

Cringleford Surgery

Cantley Lane

Norwich

NR4 6TA


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care Careers

Address

Cringleford Surgery

Cantley Lane

Norwich

NR4 6TA


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

primary care careers

eoe.primarycarecareers@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

19 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£17 to £21 an hour depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

M0038-23-6376

Job locations

Cringleford Surgery

Cantley Lane

Norwich

NR4 6TA


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