Practice Nurse - MAT Cover

• Provide routine nursing care in accordance with clinical evidence, local, and national guidance.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients, maintaining accurate chronic disease registers.
• Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions to prevent adverse health effects.
• Run chronic disease clinics, referring patients to secondary or specialist care when required.
• Support patients with the safe use of prescribed or over-the-counter medicines within your scope of practice.
• Provide comprehensive travel medicine services.
• Request and process pathology services as necessary.
• Provide home visits and care home ward rounds to our housebound and frail patients
• Provide immunisation clinics for both adults and children including baby clinics

• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately, supporting the team during clinical emergencies.
• Develop, implement, and embed health promotion and well-being programmes, delivering opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
• Maintain and support Infection Control and cold chain procedures within the Practice
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
• Maintain exceptional and accurate clinical records.

Essential

• Person Specification Practice Nurse
• Qualifications
• Essential
• Registered General Nurse
• Current NMC Registration
• Registered Smear Taker
• Trained and Qualified to administer childhood immunisations
• Full Knowledge and experience of Chronic Disease Management
• Desirable
• Knowledge and experience of specialist chronic Disease Management such a diabetes enhanced or similar
• Experience
• Essential
• At least two years post nursing degree
• 1 year or more experience in General Practice
• Applicants without experience in General Practice will not be accepted
• Essential
• Health promotion and education
• Understanding of clinical audit
• Experience working in a primary care setting
• Current EMIS user

Desirable

• Desirable
• Understanding the principles of clinical governance
• Understanding of different community sectors e.g. primary care/ nursing home/ hospice etc
• Awareness of public health issues