Practice Nurse

Due to retirement, Old Harlow Health Centre has a great opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 23 hours per week, working Wednesday to Friday. The practice serves a population of just under 12000 patients and is continuing to grow.  

• Respiratory conditions
• Diabetes management
• Minor illness
• Family Planning - coils and implants
• HRT, menopause, women's' health

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• 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.

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Ideally having completed the CNO002 Discovering a Nursing Career in General Practice module or the Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) however we would still be interested in those applicants with 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, 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.
  
  

The Old Harlow Health Centre is a well organised Training Practice (CQC rated outstanding) headed by the five GP Partners, three Salaried GPs with a supportive team that values clinical skill, common sense, and working as a cohesive team. You’ll be working in a patient-first environment that understands the value of good nursing.

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.