Overview
Are you the nurse we are looking for to join our team? As a Practice Nurse you will join the primary care team in Tywyn Health Centre, working towards the delivery of a new model of multi-disciplinary health care services for Tywyn and surrounding areas. The team currently comprises Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Advanced Pharmacists and Physiotherapist in addition to GPs and other allied health professionals.
You will undertake a wide range of nursing duties relevant to primary care and population needs, including wound care, immunisation, contraception and sexual health services, cervical screening, warfarin monitoring, lifestyle advice, assisting with minor surgery, travel health and long-term condition management. Experience of long-term conditions and working in Primary Care or General Practice is preferred.
Main duties
The post holder will perform tasks prescribed and delegated by the GPs and Senior Nurses, working unsupervised to Patient Group Directions, agreed protocols, within an evidence base and within defined competencies. The role includes undertaking chronic disease management clinics to support the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) including Asthma, COPD/Spirometry, Diabetes and Chronic Heart Disease; identifying and managing treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition; performing basic nursing tasks (ear syringing, blood pressure monitoring, ECGs, etc.); assessing and caring for patients with wounds (including removal of sutures and clips and leg ulcer management); participating in vaccination and immunisation programmes; administering injections and ensuring safe vaccine storage and cold chain policy; undertaking cervical cytology screening for eligible individuals; health screening, surveillance and new-patient screens; taking pathology samples (blood, urine, etc.); assisting GPs with minor surgery; and addressing minor illnesses in clinics.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
If you relish a challenge and have a passion to help others, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales offers a range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000 across North Wales. We promote equality and diversity and welcome applicants under the Disability Confident Employer scheme. Successful applicants will receive recruitment communications via the email registered on the application form. Applications may be submitted in Welsh; Welsh applications will not be treated less favourably than English.
Job details
* Qualifications
* Essential: Registered first level nurse with active statutory registration
* Desirable: Relevant nursing degree; Membership of a professional body
* Experience
* Essential: Previous GP Practice Nurse experience
* Desirable: Some community or primary care nursing experience; experience of nursing long-term conditions
* Knowledge
* Essential: Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions; awareness of role accountability in a nurse-led service; knowledge of health promotion strategies; awareness of clinical governance in primary care; knowledge of patient group directions and related policies
* Desirable: Ability to identify health determinants in the local area; knowledge of public health issues and local/national health policy
* Personal Qualities
* Essential: Good communicator; team player; enthusiastic
* Skills
* Essential: Clinical skills – cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination, ear care, minor surgery; change-management and ability to support patients to change lifestyle; strong written and verbal communication; ability to convey difficult messages; negotiation and conflict management; IT skills
* Desirable: Uses initiative; ability to get on well with people at all levels
* Other requirements
* Essential: Ability to work core hours; flexible approach to work
* Welsh language
* Desirable: Ability to speak Welsh
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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