Practice Nurse with Treatment Room Experience

• Experience with all aspects of the treatment room ie wound care, compression bandaging, vaccines for babies & adults
• Experience of travel &/or diabetes would be an advantage
• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication & treatments, & performing diagnostic tests
• Providing & evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health & social care needs are met
• General health & well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition
• Managing & treating long-term conditions in line with national & local policies & the practice needs
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national & practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments
• Prioritising health problems & intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Supporting & managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health & contraception, & cervical cytology consultations
• Implementing, & participating in, vaccination & immunisation programmes for both adults & children, including patients travelling abroad
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
• Hypertension review & management
• Running asthma, COPD & diabetes clinics & reviews
• New patient & health checks

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children's pension
• Ill health benefits
• 20% employer contribution
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Health service discounts
• Access to the Wisdom app which is our employee advisory and wellbeing platform

Essential

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work. The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
• Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.