Upper Gordon Road Surgery is seeking a motivated and compassionate Practice Nurse tojoin our friendly and supportive team. The successful candidate will play a key role indelivering high-quality patient care, supporting chronic disease management, and promotinghealth and wellbeing within our local community and supporting the wider multidisciplinaryteam.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver high standards of nursing care to patients within the practice setting
* Undertake chronic disease management including asthma, COPD, diabetes,and hypertension reviews
* Carry out cervical cytology (smears) in line with national screeningprogrammes
* Administer immunisations and vaccinations (including childhood and travelvaccines)
* Perform wound care, dressings, and removal of sutures
* Conduct health promotion and lifestyle advice clinics (e.g. smoking cessation,weight management)
* Carry out NHS health checks and screening programmes
* Assist in infection prevention and control, including maintaining clinicalstandards and audit processes
* Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records in accordance with NHSand practice policies
* Support GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care
* Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and practice meetings
* Ensure safe management of clinical stock, vaccines, and equipment
* Contribute to safeguarding processes for vulnerable adults and children
About us
Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites,serving over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. Within our federation, we hold the GMScontract for Upper Gordon Road Surgerya highly regarded, patient-centred practice with alist size of 11,000+.
About Upper Gordon Road Surgery:
The practice is supported by a strong, diverse and experienced clinical team, including:
* Paramedics
* An Advanced Nurse Practitioner
* A dedicated Nursing team
Alongside the onsite team, the practice benefits from the federations central managementsupport across operations, HR, finance, governance and senior clinical leadershipcreating a resilient collaborative environment that enables clinicians to focus on deliveringhigh-quality patient care.
Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd offers a 365 day, 52 week service delivery acrosssome services, and as part of that we offer a 7 days a week from 0800 hrs 2000hrsservice. So you may be required to work evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays as part ofyour normal working hours, as per the needs of the business.
The following are the core responsibilities of this role. There may be, on occasion, arequirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workloadand staffing levels.
Job responsibilities
Please note this is not a comprehensive list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description attached for the full list.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working with healthcare professionals and/or previous experience in the NHS or social care
* Understanding of local and national NHS policy
* Understanding of Clinical Governance within primary care
* Previous experience in cervical cytology screening
* Previous experience working as a practice nurse in primary care
Qualifications
* 4 GCSEs (C and above) including English and Maths or equivalent
* NMC Registration
* Up-to-date training in immunisation and cervical screening
* Postgraduate diploma or degree in primary care
Skills
* Competent in treatment room procedures: wound care ECGs phlebotomy immunisations and cervical screening
* Managing patients with long term conditions such as: diabetes asthma COPD hypertension
* Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal
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.
£38,639 to £46,529 a yearPro rata for part time
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