Location
Ipswich
Department
Barrack Lane Medical Centre
Advertising Salary
DOE
Function
Nursing
Careers Site Advertising End Date
24 Jan 2025
Vacancy
8628
About the Role
Barrack Lane Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for a practice nurse to join our team on a part time basis for 27 hours per week, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.  
 
The main responsibilities of the role include:
  • Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being. evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term conditions.
  • Work with other health care professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat long-term conditions.
  • Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols.
  • Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments.
  • Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
  • Prioritise health problems, intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children. and patients travelling abroad.
  • Meet the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
  • Perform investigative procedures including venepuncture, ECG recording, spirometry, audiometry and 24hr ECG or BP measurement.
  • Maintain accurate patient computer records at all times on SystmOne.
Please see full job description attached:
About the Candidate
All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:
  • A relevant nursing degree.
  • Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
  • Fundamentals of Practice Nursing course (General Practice Nurse Foundation Programme) or 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, phlebotomy, 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.

About Us
Barrack Lane is a busy practice in the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk. We have a practice population of over 20,000 patients. The practice is based on two sites, the main surgery in the centre of the town, and a branch surgery at Stoke Park.
 
Our clinical team is made up of GP partners, salaried GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, advanced care practitioners, dietician, paramedics, physicians associate, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a practice nursing team and HCAs. This team is supported by a strong administrative, coding and care-navigating team.
 
Barrack Lane is part of a PCN (Primary Care Network) with Ivry Street Medical Centre, in Ipswich, and the two practices cover a population of 32,000 patients. The PCN allows the practices to share resources and offer an enhanced service to our patients. The PCN employs care co-ordinators and social prescribers to work with patients, especially our vulnerable patients, to help them to access the best care.
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