Practice Nurse

Job summary

Thaxted Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis for 24 hours a week. Exact days are negotiable and dependent on the right candidate but will include a 6.00pm finish on a Thursday afternoon.

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, ANP and ACP, 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.
• Supporting chronic disease management by performing regular reviews (e.g. diabetes and asthma) as directed by the GP.
• 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.

About us

Thaxted Surgery is an EMIS Web dispensing practice in a historic market town. We work out of our own purpose-built modern premises and have a supportive and friendly team of clinical and administrative staff. All staff work hard to deliver excellent patient focused care and services. We are very proactive not only in caring for our own practice population but also within the wider primary care network. We are a GP training practice; host medical students and are consistent high achievers in QOF. Thaxted Surgery has consistently performed well in the national GP surveys, this year coming top for Herts and West Essex. Our list size is 9000+ and growing every month.

We offer the following benefits:

• Access to the NHS pension scheme
• Supportive and friendly environment
• Free parking
• Extra day off p/a on your birthday
• Annual leave of 6 (FTE) weeks inc bank holidays
• Staff tea/coffee/biscuits and fruit!
• Annual staff day out/party - summer and Christmas
• Training and development opportunities