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Practice Nurse

Practice Nurse

NHSFarnborough, England, United Kingdom
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

We are a small but rapidly expanding surgery in Farnborough with 6500 patients. We are looking for a Practice Nurse with experience of working in a GP Practice. The role will be between 25-30 hours ideally working 3 long days Monday-Wednesday

You will be working in a small nursing team of 2 nurses and an experienced HCA.

Main duties of the job

We would like experience in the following :

Essential : baby imms, dressings, smears, injections

About us

We are a small but friendly GP surgery. Very hard working team with a strong team ethic.

Very supportive management team and good training support

Job responsibilities

To provide and maintain a highstandard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistanceto the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team.

Job responsibilities :

  • Assist in and perform routinetasks related to patient care
  • Basic wound care / ulcer care
  • Removal of sutures
  • Peak flow readings
  • Blood pressure measurements
  • Ear syringing
  • Routine immunisations
  • Assisting GPs with minor surgeryand coil fittings
  • Requesting basic pathology tests,for example urine culture, swabs
  • Following agreed clinicalprotocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate

Othertasks including :

  • Maintaining and cleaningequipment used by the nurses and GPs
  • Maintaining GP and Nurses rooms,stocking and rotating items as requiredalongside the HCA
  • Chaperoning and assistingpatients who are being examined by another clinician
  • Undertake housekeeping dutiesincluding, general tidiness and cleanlinessof nurses and treatment rooms
  • Ordering of stock from the localhospital alongside the HCA
  • Ordering of vaccinations tomaintain stock levels
  • Maintain Cold Chain procedures including regularaudits
  • Participation in administrativesystems in the practice
  • At all times there will be a needto maintain accurate records
  • A duty to advise clinicians ofpotential problems or errors within the range of assigned tasks
  • Attend and participate in anypractice meetings when required.
  • Any other delegated dutiesappropriate to the post.

    • Person Specification

    Qualifications

  • Applicant must be a RGN and have current NMC registration
  • Qualified in Asthma, COPD and diabetes

    • Disclosure and Barring Service Check

    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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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