Practice Nurse

Join our team as a Practice Nurse and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to our diverse patient population. Working collaboratively within our multidisciplinary team, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference to patients' health and wellbeing, delivering a varied range of clinical services within your scope of practice.

Your role will include providing treatment room services, supporting the management of long-term conditions and helping patients take an active role in managing their health. You'll also work closely with the practice management team to develop proactive approaches to care, enhance service delivery and contribute to the ongoing development of the practice.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and forward-thinking nurse who is passionate about delivering excellent patient care, improving health outcomes and contributing to the continued success and development of our practice., The following are the core responsibilities of the practice nurse. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks

This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

Treatment Room services

To identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects to patients health

To provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF

To provide chronic disease clinics for COPD and asthma delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required

To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction within legislation

To ensure read codes are used effectively

To maintain chronic disease registers

To chaperone patients where necessary

To prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately

To support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies

To recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs

To support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice)

To liaise with external services/agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc)

To delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately (ensuring safe practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual)

To support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence