A great opportunity to drive clinical excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.
We are recruiting a Practice Nurse, who specialises in Diabetes management, to work alongside our established team to provide high class clinical care to our patient population.
As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role providing and delivering prescribed programmes of patient care.
Main duties of the job
Management of Chronic Disease
Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals.
Day to Day Skills (depending on competency and training)
Venepuncture
Blood pressure monitoring
ECGs
Urinalysis
Cytology
Long Term Condition Reviews
Routine, travel and childhoodimmunisations
Contraception
Peak flow measurement
Maintain general tidiness andcleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
Maintenance and cleaning of generalequipment including defibrillator and nebulisers
Ordering of Health PromotionalLiterature
Ordering of stock, as and whenrequired
Ordering of vaccinations to maintainstock levels, as and when required
There may be a requirement toundertake home visits
About us
Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.
HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.
We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.
The Practice has a current list size of 30,500 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification which is available in within the Supporting Information section.
Person Specification
Skills and Qualities
* Good interpersonal skills, both oral and written
* Evidence of problem solving and decision making skills
* Good team player
* Ability to be reflective, accept criticism and act constructively
* Willingness to accept additional responsibilities/acquire new skills
* Negotiation and conflict management skills
* Neat and well presented
* Clarity of speech
* Good health record
* Punctual timekeeper and a positive role model
* Ability to work core hours
* Flexibility for cover
* Ability to travel to meetings
Experience
* Relevant experience of working within a secondary care, primary care or community-based environment
* Insight and understanding of current NHS issues in nursing and the NHS
* Interest and basic knowledge in long-term conditions
* Demonstrate an understanding of audit
* Compiling procedures and clinical guidelines
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Recognised Diploma Qualification for Long Term Condition Management of Diabetes
* Basic Life Support
* Full NMC registration
* Recognised Infection Control qualification
* Cytology and Family Planning
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.
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