Prescribing Nurse

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Part time
Location: South Benfleet
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Job offered by: NHS
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Stock Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced prescribing nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 20 hours per week. Main duties of the job

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. 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. 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, influenza, shingles, and pneumococcal. 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. Management of chronic diseases. ECGs. About us

Stock Surgery is a small friendly village dispensing practice, we look after 4600 patients. For further information please email: ceriduval@nhs.net. Person Specification

Qualifications

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. Experience

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. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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