About the Role

3 days-a-week prescribing practice nurse or prescribing paramedic opportunity - supportive, innovative, and well-run rural practice.

Are you looking for nurse or paramedic position that prioritises work-life balance, well-being and professional development, in a friendly, well-run and innovative environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Mendlesham Medical Group has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced/newly qualified prescribing practice nurse or prescribing paramedic to join our team on a part-time basis for 27 hours per week, worked on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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.
New patient and health checks.

About the Candidate

What we are looking for?

We welcome applications from both experienced and newly qualified prescribing practice nurses or prescribing paramedic who share our commitment to excellent patient care, teamwork and innovation. We'd love to discuss how you can fit into our thriving practicet.

All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:

A relevant nursing degree.
Current NMC registration with an active PIN or current HCPC registration
Competence to undertake LTC, 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, 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.
Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS.

About Us

Mendlesham Medical Group is a two-site, dispensing, rural practice, with a stable patient population, that offers the perfect blend of professional satisfaction and a great quality of life.

Why Join Us?

Work-life balance & supportive culture
Well-structured clinical sessions to ensure fair patient contact
Team well-being is a priority, with a culture of support, and collaboration
Training practice - we support GP registrars and medical students
Regular clinical and educational meetings fostering continuous learning and development
Embracing digital innovation - streamlined document workflow management and digital tools to reduce administrative burden
High QOF achievement and dispensing practice benefits
Rural setting with a good balance of deprivation and affluence, providing a rewarding and varied clinical caseload.
A fantastic multidisciplinary team: work alongside GPs, nurse practitioners, paramedics, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a paramedic home-visiting service
A well-run and supportive practice management team ensuring smooth operations
A collaborative, friendly and professional team environment that values everyone's contributions.

Location: Rural England - Easily commutable

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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