General Practice Nurse

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patient’s health
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence
• Provide vaccination services
• Request pathology services as necessary
• Process pathology results as required
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Develop, implement, and embed well woman clinics
• Develop, implement, and embed well man clinics
• Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Deliver & maintain baby immunisation results logs
• Deliver & maintain smears results logs
• Manage emergency drug kit

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 16-20 per week

Salary: From £15.56 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Washington: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Nursing: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• NMC (required)
• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 07/06/2023