Practice Nurse

The Practice Nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare team providing Personal Medical Services to the patients at Lowton Surgery and Platt Bridge medical Centre. The role will be for 32 hours, 8 hours per day over 4 days. Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients. The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners. The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within patient group directions where these are available. A nurse with prescribing qualifications will use them appropriately., Management of Chronic Disease:

• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals
Patient health checks
• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
Risk assessment
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domesticviolence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)
Health screening
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.
Travel health Immunisation (adult and child)
• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
Confidentiality:
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
  
  SSP Health is a growing organisation including 40+ General Practices. We are leading specialists in GP lead surgeries and primary care. Our mission is to continue to evolve GP surgeries to meet the current and future needs of the communities in which we operate, to deliver outstanding clinical services, responsive to patient needs, encompassing a health and social care approach to enhance the quality of patients' lives.