Job Title Practice Nurse
Location Burwell Surgery
Accountable to Practice Manager
Hours 18 to 27 hours

JOB SUMMARY
To assist Burwell Surgery in providing a friendly and caring service to patients to support health monitoring and chronic disease management.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Treatment room duties eg. dressings, suture removal, swabs, cervical smears, venepuncture, routine vaccinations, contraception service.
• Disease management and health promotion clinics eg. diabetic, asthma, smoking, weight, patient health checks, leg ulcer
• Regularly checking medical equipment to ensure serviced and maintained.
• Infection control and prevention
• Admin to include completing patient record books as necessary and keeping accurate record on medical records system.
• Deal with tasks received via multiple routes eg. SystmOne, AskmyGP and email
• Attend training sessions to keep knowledge up to date
• Attend meetings as requested by your Manager to ensure you are up to date on organisation policies and procedures

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
All Burwell Surgery staff and other health providers

OTHER
This job description is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and in consultation with the jobholder.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Company policies and procedure - To adhere to Burwell Surgery agreed policies and procedures.
Equal Opportunities - To promote and develop the equality of opportunity in accordance with Burwell Surgerys Equal Opportunities Policy.
Confidentiality - To protect the confidentiality of information relating to Burwell Surgery, Patient and Staff or other agencies
Quality - To provide a quality service to internal and external agencies.
Health and Safety -To share responsibility for abiding by Health and Safety policies and regulations and acting in accordance with the Risk Management Policy.
Lone Working - You may have to work alone, and therefore you are required to adhere to the relevant lone working policy.
Risk Management - All members of staff have a responsibility to report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly and when requested to, co-operate with any investigation undertaken.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of Primary Care desirable.
• Experience of dealing with the public/patients.
• Involvement in using protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Able to work on own initiative.
• Able to follow set procedures and protocols.
• Use of clinical system software e.g. SystmOne and Microsoft Office.

Qualifications
Essential

• Nursing Degree.
• A levels.
• GCSE grade C or equivalent in maths and English.
• Proficient computer and keyboard skills.
• Certificates of competence in areas of experience.
• Commitment to professional development.
• DBS certified.
• Driving licence.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Burwell Surgery is an equal opportunities employer.