Practice Nurse

Job summary

Swanwood Partnership has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, hours and days can be negotiable.

Our nursing team is central to how we deliver safe, effective, and compassionate patient care. We are not a passive practice, and we are not looking for a passive nurse.

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

We are a forward-thinking, partner-led surgery serving approximately 7,000 patients, where clinical and operational teams work closely together. Our partners are actively involved, decisions are made quickly, and our team is supported to work at the top of their competence.

What makes us different:

• Clinically supported environment close working with engaged GP partners
• Team integration nurses are valued as key decision-makers in patient care
• Efficient systems we focus on improving workflow, not adding unnecessary burden
• Respect-led culture we expect professionalism and mutual respect from both staff and patients