Senior Practice Nurse

We are looking for a Senior Practice Nurse to join our team at Anchor Centre & Meridian Practice, where we are committed to delivering excellent care to our community through innovation, teamwork, and a passion for healthcare delivery.

About our Services: 

The Anchor Centre is the specialist GP practice for homeless and vulnerably housed in Coventry and Meridian Practice is a specialist GP service for asylum seekers and refugees in Coventry. The healthcare team based at Both services deliver holistic health care for this patients’ groups. We provide services to meet the needs patients who attend the Practice and aim to make a difference to people’s lives in their community.

At HCRG care group we like to do things differently and we take the responsibility of the work/life balance of our valued Nurses very seriously. The busy Meridian practice is open 5 days a week from 8:00 am to 18:30 pm (excluding bank holidays) and means we can offer a variety of working patterns to fit in with your life. It also means that not only can you make a difference to the community and those in most need but those working patterns are flexible.

The role is across 2 services Anchor Centre and Meridian Practice.

Main Responsibilities

• Always work within clinical competence, have awareness of limitations and know when to refer on
• Carry out initial assessment and identify any necessary investigation
• Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
• Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions
• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programs to promote health and well-being,
• Identify, and manage as appropriate, patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication, on medication regimens, side effects and interactions, within competence, seeking advice if appropriate.
• Assess and care for patients presenting for wound management and refer as needed
• Support and advise patients requesting information on contraception and sexual health
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NICE guidelines and local policy