Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester is a friendly and welcoming GP practice and are currently seeking a respiratory nurse to join our team. Working across our two sites, Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate, this is a full-time role, requiring 37.5 hours per week over five days. The successful applicant must have experience with asthma and COPD.
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.
- Running asthma, COPD clinics and reviews.
- 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.