GP Practice Nurse

We are looking for a hard-working, experienced, and enthusiastic Primary Care Practice Nurse to help our Nursing team.

The vacancy is part-time, around 20-25 hours per week over 3 days, although we do have some flexibility in total hours and working days. Please state your preferred hours and working pattern in your application., Main Nursing duties

• Provide nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and local requirements


• Appraise wounds and other minor injuries, administer dressings; refer to a practice doctor or the hospital as appropriate


• Take swabs, cervical smears


• Provide immunisations and injections to children and adults


• Assist with Chronic Disease Management using the principles of MECC to maximise encounters and minimise patient visits


• Support the Nursing team in dealing with clinical emergencies


• Monitor the blood pressure of patients and consider indications for referral back to the doctor


• Assist with ECGs and report the findings to the doctors


• Assist the phlebotomists with venepuncture


• Insert ring pessaries as directed by the doctor


• Assist with INR clinics, including patient dosing using INRstar when a suitable Health Care Assistant is not available


Chronic Disease Management

• Help maintain chronic disease registers


• Identify, manage and support patients as risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health


• Coronary heart disease (CHD)


• Hypertension


• Smoking cessation


• Diabetes


• Asthma


• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD)


• Management of other "Best Practice" patient registers


• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
  
  Ideally, you will have previous experience of primary care nursing with the usual treatment room work, injections, smears, dressings, and chronic disease management.Please detail your primary care experience in your application.


You must be professional, courteous, and efficient with excellent people handling skills, enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure.

Paston Surgery provides GMS services to a practice population of around 6,700 patients in North Walsham and the surrounding villages.

We are contracted for most enhanced services and are committed to high standards of patient care. The Practice is proud of our support to medical students from the UEA medical school.