Location
Bicknacre
Department
Wyncroft Surgery
Advertising Salary
£20ph
Function
Nursing
Careers Site Advertising End Date
30 Nov 2024
About the Role

Greenwood and Wyncroft Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 15 hours per week on Thursday and Friday. 

The ideal candidate will have worked within a similar practice role and have the relevant treatment room skills listed below;
  • 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.
  • 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.
About the Candidate
All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
  • A relevant nursing degree.
  • Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
  • Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or equivalent experience or qualifications;
  • Competence to undertake asthma, COPD and diabetic clinics and reviews, holding relevant certificates.
  • Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation, phlebotomy, ECG recording, screening, management of long-term conditions, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations, assisting with minor surgery, dressing and wound care, and recording spirometry. 
  • Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work.  The successful candidate will value the dignity of our patients, their relatives and carers, as well as their colleagues at the practice.
  • Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long-term conditions.
  • Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.
About Us

Greenwood and Wyncroft Surgery is a 2 site practice based in Bicknacre and South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. Our practice team consists of 1 GP partner, 2 long term locum GPs and a dedicated and supportive clinical team including ANP's ACP's and a prescribing paramedic as well as 3 healthcare assistants. We are support 11000+ patients and have a full management and administration team.

We are a member of the Dengie and South Woodham Ferrers Primary Care Network, who have staff linked with the practice. We offer a range of benefits including the NHS Pension Scheme, eye-care vouchers and health service discounts.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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