Assistant Practitioner

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, City of Westminster

Assistant Practitioner

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EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 4 days ago, 26 Sep | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: a618405514894edda051eb881f5df8e5

Location ref: City of Westminster

Full Job Description

  • Under the direction of the Practice Nurses and ACPs, undertake basic nursing and technical tasks to provide a comprehensive nursing service for Practice patients.
  • Undertake routine diagnostic nursing tasks such as, ECGs, blood pressure checks, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, routine heights, weights and urinalysis
  • Use patient contacts as opportunities to promote health education, including education on practice systems such as obtaining a blood result.
  • Participate in health promotion
  • Take responsibility for the administration of diabetic care planning, coordinating patient results and clinical observations and ensuring the care plan is sent to the patient in time for their annual review
  • To participate and administer Long Term Condition reviews
  • Provide vaccination to relevant cohorts (if trained to do so)

    East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) provides a wide range of mental health, community and primary care services across East London, Outer North East London, Bedfordshire and Luton. The trust has an overarching vision to improve the quality of life for all we serve by focusing our efforts on improving population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and value. The trust has been rated outstanding by CQC and as a trust we do everything we can to embody our values of 'we care, we respect, we are inclusive'. ELFT's vision to improve the quality of life for all those we serve has drawn us into new areas of work, including primary care. As we move forwards to provide more primary care services it is an exciting time to be part of truly transformational change across the whole health and care system. As part of the new primary care directorate within ELFT our team will be involved in leading triple aim population health quality improvement work. Quality of care is our top
  • priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality primary, community and mental health care in England. Being the best requires continual improvement- always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

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