Practice Nurse

Job summary

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 26 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• 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, hypertension and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

About us

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is a two site general practice based in Bury St Edmunds, and Barrow Village. We have 6 GP partners, 7 salaried GPs, an advanced nurse practitioner and a clinical pharmacist. We also have a nursing team of four practice nurses, two HCAs and a nursing associate.

We are part of the BSE PCN and have additional medicines management team members, paramedics, a health and well-being coach, and a social prescriber available for our use. We currently service just over 13,000 patients and our list sizes are growing rapidly. We are a friendly and hardworking team that takes pride in our practice reputation and our current 'Good' CQC status. We are looking for a self motivated, team player to join our busy nursing team.

We offer:

• NHS pension scheme from the point of employment.
• Competitive salary DOE
• Annual pay reviews
• 6 weeks holiday + bank holidays pro rata