Practice Nurse
Primary Care Careers, Fryerns, Basildon
Practice Nurse
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Primary Care Careers, Fryerns, Basildon
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 13 Mar | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7b265d8030cd4f8ca06603b4a2078847
Full Job Description
The Knares Medical Practice situated in Basildon, has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on apart-time basis, to work between 8-16 hours per week. Ideally these hours would be worked on a Tuesday and/or a Wednesday.,
- Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
- Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
- General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
- Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
- Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
- Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
- Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
- Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
- Hypertension review and management.
- Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
- New patient and health checks.
The Knares Medical Practice in Basildon is part of the West Basildon Primary Care Network (PCN).The doctors and staff at the surgery are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.