Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse
Job Type: Permanent
Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse
Leatherhead KT22 7PZ
Our client is a small Medical Practice of around 6000 patients across 2 sites. They are a close knit and supportive team who are now looking to recruit a Practice/ Primary Healthcare Nurse who is interested in supporting their local population.
Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse to join their team and help work with the practice to achieve their overall goal of supporting Health and Wellbeing around the Leatherhead area.
Key Responsibilities:
· Deliver a high standard of patient care using high level autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base
· Deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting. Responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services.
· Promote healthy lifestyles and participate in national immunisation and screening programmes.
· Enable patients to manage their long term health care needs and to achieve their full potential in terms of independent living.
· Actively encourage and facilitate choices for patients by providing health promotion during routine screening procedures e.g: new patient health checks, cervical cytology and long term conditions management.
· Communicate complex information to patients and relatives where needed with a variety of diverse needs, using negotiation and persuasive skills to motivate.
· Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure the National Service Frameworks are being delivered.
Clinical Responsibilities:
Undertake clinical duties with relevant training in some or all of the areas
· Adult and paediatric immunisations
· Smears
· Management of chronic conditions
· Vaccinations
Essential Qualifications:
· Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the NMC)
· Qualification in cytology and or family planning
· Competent with adult and child immunisations
· Experience of working in community/primary care
· Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up to date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of practice nurse role.
· Experience of working across organisational boundaries
· within health and social care.
· Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of
· own clinical practice.
· Enhanced paternity/ maternity leave
· Wellness Beneifts – Private Healthcare
#J-18808-Ljbffr