Practice Nurse

Little Waltham and Great Notley Surgery are looking to welcome a Practice Nurse to the team. This position is offered on ideally a part-time basis, with hours negotiable but you must be flexible and able to cover holidays/sickness.

 The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments.
• 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.
• Chronic disease management.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Family planning clinics. 
• 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.
  

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• Diabetes trained.
• Evidence of clinical skills and experience in treatment room consultation including  management of chronic disease management, cervical cytology sampling, vaccinations and immunisations and dressing and wound care.
• Compassionate manner with an empathetic approach and demonstrable kindness in all aspects of your work.  
  
  

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.