Ashburnham Road Surgery in Bedford are looking to welcome a practice nurse on a part-time basis for 12 hours per week. The working pattern will be working 6 hour shifts on a Monday and Tuesday each week with flexible hours. Please note we can only consider applicants with working experience of carrying out child and adult vaccinations and smear tests.
The main responsibilities of the role include undertaking a range of nursing assessments and provide appropriate care/treatment in conjunction with GPs according to practice policy, protocols.
Responsibilities will 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 chronic illness patients and long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
- 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.