About the Role
- 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
- Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
- A qualified Nurse Practitioner.
- Possess a current, valid prescriber qualification.
- Experience and skills in relation to minor illness.
- Experience of working in a primary care setting or GP practice.
- Working knowledge of SystmOne.
About Us
- Over 17,500 patients
- 2 supportive GP partners and always 2 or more GPs on call
- A full complement of support staff, including advanced Nurse Practitioners, practice nurses, healthcare assistants, midwife, physiotherapist, mental health practitioner, wellbeing practitioner, pharmacy team, care co-ordinator and administration team.
- Chronic disease clinics for diabetes, asthma and COPD
- All patients sign posted by our care navigators
- Rated Good by CQC
- SystmOne clinical system
- 100% QOF achievement for the past 4 years
- Part of the local primary care network (PCN)
For more information, please contact our practice manager Kate Bloomfield on 01394 288176 or email kate.bloomfield1@nhs.net
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.