Practice Nurse - Talybont Surgery

• Chronic Disease Management: Provide reviews, and ongoing management of patients with conditions such as diabetes, asthma, COPD, or hypertension. This will depend on experience.
• Childhood Immunisations: Administer vaccinations following national guidelines and maintain accurate records. This will involve working closely with the Health Visitors.
• Wound Care & Dressings: Provide treatment and follow-up care for wounds, ulcers, burns and post-operative dressings. Refer into secondary care for more complex wounds.
• Health Promotion & Prevention: Offer smoking cessation support, weight management, and lifestyle advice to patients during consultations where appropriate.
• Womens Health: Conduct cervical screening and womens health advice where appropriate.
• Treatment Room Duties: Assist with maintaining a clean, tidy environment with adequate stock levels.

• Work closely with the wider team including GPs, Pharmacists and non clinical teams.
• Engage in team meetings to discuss complex cases and contribute to practice development. This may involve practice, clinical or palliative care meetings.
• Participate in continuous professional development (CPD) and maintain up-to-date clinical skills and knowledge.
• Assist in audits, quality improvement projects, compliance and policy updates within the practice.

• Maintain accurate and confidential patient records using the EMIS clinical system.
• Ensure compliance with NHS Wales and Public Health Wales protocols, NICE guidelines, Health and Safety and infection control standards.
• Monitor group channels such as Microsoft Teams.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in childhood immunisations, injections, chronic disease management, and wound care.
• Experience in patient education and health promotion.

Desirable

• Experience working in general practice.
• Experience in working with multilingual or diverse patient populations.
• Experience in quality improvement initiatives or audits within a primary care setting.
• Experience working within socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.

Essential

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.
• Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills.