Is your passion to deliver the best patient care?
Do you want to work in a Practice which strives toachieve this?
Our ethos at East Shore Partnership is to provide the highest qualitypatient care and excellent support for all our staff.
We are seeking to appoint a Practice Nurse on apermanent contract for 25 to 30 hours per week.
We are an established GP training practice forvocational training and offer training support for nurses and pharmacists too.We are committed to the professional development of our staff at East ShorePartnership.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be:
* RGNqualified and have NMC registration
* Have ideally successfully completed the General Practice Nurse training - however newly qualified applicants will be considered.
* Competentwith Childhood Immunisations, Cervical Smears, Wound care and TravelVaccinations.
* Ideallypossess experience with managing Diabetes, Asthma and Copd
* A teamplayer, able to work without direct supervision
* Demonstrationof continuing professional development
About us
East Shore Partnership is an inner-city practice based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. It is within easy access to road/rail links and good local schools and colleges. We are a friendly and forward-thinking practice which serves over 13,500 patients within the local area. We have an excellent QOF achievement and are a member of Brunel Primary Care Network.
Job responsibilities
To provide assessment, treatment, screening, health educationservices and advice, working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct.
Provide nursing treatments (following specific training and within agreed protocols andguidelines) to patients independently or in participation with nursecolleagues and general practitioners with reference to agreed protocols andguidelines:
Patient assessment
ECGs
Dopplers
Dressing ulcers & wounds
Venepuncture
Injections & immunisations (child &travel vaccination)
Cervical smears
Undertake the collection of pathologicalspecimens
New patient medicals
Prepare for and assist the doctor in minoroperation procedures
Family planning advice
Pre-conceptual advice
Travel medicine and advice
To act as a chaperone when requested by aclinician.
Knowledge and participate in regular audits
Person Specification
Experience
* Childhood and Travel Immunisations
* Wound care and Management
* Cervical Screening
* Current or previous experience of working in a GP Surgery within Primary Care
Qualifications
* NMC Registration
* GPN training
* GCSE or equivalent minimum grade C in English and Maths
* Diabetes Part1
* Asthma and Copd
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£17.09 to £23 a yearDepending on experience
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