Practice Nurse

Job summary

The Lawns Medical Practice located in Diss, are seeking an experienced and dedicated practice nurse to join our team on a full-time basis.We are a supportive and friendly practice with a manageable workload.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments.
• 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.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Wound care.

About us

We serve the small market town of Diss. We have 7100 patients with a mix of age groups. We actively encourage learning and take a small number of medical students each year. We have an excellent team of staff who support each other.

Benefits include access to training, mentorship where necessary, NHS Pension and the opportunity to work as part of a caring team.