Practice Nurse

Job summary

Band 7 Nurse Advert

Job Summary

Broom Lane Medical Centre is looking to recruit an experienced Band 7 Practice Nurse to join our clinical team. The vacancy arises out of the retirement of a longstanding member of staff.

You would be joining our large practice team delivering primary care to our 15,000 patients over two sites. Working independently but with the support of a variety of clinical colleagues, you will deliver primary care nursing to our practice population, with a focus on the management of chronic diseases.

We are ideally looking for 25-30 or 37 hours worked per week and experience in general practice. Independent prescriber status aspirational but not essential.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

To deliver nursing care to our practice population, working alongside our Lead Nurse, fellow band 7 nurses, a new treatment room nurse role and our HCAs and phlebotomists. A particular focus will be chronic disease management of asthma, COPD, diabetes and hypertension as part of a wide range of nursing roles. The ideal candidate would be fully qualified in theses areas and have experience of working in primary care.

About us

About Us

We are a long established large GP practice based at Broom Lane, and a large branch at Kimberworth Park. In total we have around 15,000 patients across two sites. We have just completed a major rebuild and remodel at the Broom Lane site making us a desirable place to work .

Our staffing team consists of six GP partners with a variety of specialist interests, four salaried doctors, Practice Management team, administration department and two reception teams working alongside our nursing team as above. We are well connected with our Primary Care Network and utilise ARRS staff including pharmacy team, social prescribers, physios and mental health practitioners to better resource our patient care.

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Band 7 Practice Nurse

Reports to: Lead Nurse (clinically and operationally), Practice Manager (administratively)

Core clinical work to include:

Chronic disease management

o Asthma annual reviews

o COPD annual reviews

o Diabetes annual reviews

o Hypertension annual reviews

Cervical smears

Wound care

Routine immunisations childhood and adult

Various injections contraception, hormone treatments, B12 etc

Travel vaccines

Ear syringing

Audiometry

Anticoagulation INR dosing

Additional clinical work to be completed when required:

BP checks

Phlebotomy

12 lead ECG

Suture removal

Chaperone

NHS Health Checks

SMI review/health check

Learning Disability health checks

The successful post holder will work effectively as part of our clinical team, maintaining the highest standards of professional integrity, confidentiality, medical documentation, professional dress and health and safety working. They will participate in the ongoing CPD programme within the surgery and with appraisals as required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• ideally we would like a fully qualified nurse however we would consider someone who is will to train for reach the requirements
• Registered Nurse
• Post graduate diploma or degree (Primary Care)
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Venepuncture
• Chaperone procedure
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Asthma
• CHD
• COPD
• Understands the importance of evidence based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understands the requirement for PGDs/PSDs and associated policy
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
• Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to on-going professional development
• Effectively utilises resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health Clearance
• NMC registration
• Evidence of post registration learning

Desirable

• ideally we would like a fully qualified nurse however we would consider someone who is will to train for reach the requirements
• Nurse Prescriber
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of working as a practice nurse or community nurse
• Travel medicine
• Ear Care
• Spirometry interpretation
• Immunisations (routine childhood and travel)
• Womens health (Cervical cytology contraception etc.)
• Learning Disabilities
• SMIs
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
• SystmOne user skills
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours