Minor Illness Nurse

Job summary

Queens Park Group Surgery in Bedford is looking to welcome an experienced minor illness nurse into our practice to assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes for our patients, on a full or part time basis depending on the successful applicant.

Main duties of the job

• Attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional to either care for them or if this is not appropriate, triage them to an appropriate appointment with another more appropriate clinician;
• Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness and treating them following practice guidelines and protocols
• Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs

These patients will have booked appointments at ten-minute intervals. There is a requirement to see extra or emergency patients. The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the GP who is supervising or, if unavailable at an appropriate interval with another GP in the practice before making a referral.

About us

We are a very long-established practice working on two sites in Bedford, looking after 12,500 patients. We are also care-taking another local practice in Bedford, with a list size of 9,000 patients.

• SystmOne clinical system
• Rated Good by CQC
• High QOF achievers
• Friendly nursing and administrative support
• Development of special interests encouraged
• Training supported
• Attractive salary and terms and conditions
• 6 months mutual assessment period

We are active members of our primary care network and we welcome collaborative working. Our vision is progressive, we are actively looking for new opportunities and we are a training practice. We grow our own staff and are developing advanced nurse practitioners and healthcare support workers. Bedfordshire is a great location and has a reputation for excellent schools, beautiful villages and countryside, close to Milton Keynes for shopping, and 35 minutes from London by train.

For further information please contact our Practice & Business Manager - jen.gough@nhs.net

Informal enquiries/visits welcome.