Practice Nurse

Job summary

Staithe Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis. The hours/days are negotiable dependent on the right candidate.

As a key member of our practice, you will be able to treat patients in your own clinic along with the support of our team of GPs, nurse practitioners, practice nurses, health care assistants, and dispensary and administration teams.

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

About us

Our total practice population is approximately 7,200 and we are proud to have achieved a rating of Good at our last CQC inspection.

We are a GP training and research practice and a consistent high QOF achiever.

Some benefits/areas to highlight might include:

• NHS Pension Scheme, the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Health service discounts
• Annual Leave: 33 days FTE