Experienced GP Practice Nurse

Working across two sites in Cheadle Hulme we are ideally looking for someone part time (24-30 hours/week)

Salary: dependent on experience but likely within band 6 + range for an experienced nurse but could consider band 7 for someone with NMP qualification and/or leadership experience.

Cheadle Hulme Medical Group is looking for an experienced practice nurse to join our busy practice in Cheadle Hulme.

We are replacing an experienced nurse who has retired so our skills gap means we really need someone already trained and accredited to work as a GP Practice Nurse carrying out a full range of duties.

Main duties of the job

Essential:

• Long-term condition management: run clinics and monitor patients with asthma, diabetes, COPD, CVD etc including reviewing patients, identifying poor control and liaising with GP colleagues to optimise health and medication, providing lifestyle advice and referral to community and other clinics if needed (spirometry, weight management etc)
• Womens and Sexual Health: perform cervical cytology screening, provide family planning advice and pill checks
• Full range of vaccinations and immunisations including childrens routine schedule, adult vaccinations including seasonal and catch up programmes
• Diagnostic Tests including venepuncture, performing ECGs, BP and urinalysis
• Travel Health advice and vaccinations (we are not a yellow fever centre)
• Ad hoc injections including administration of Hydroxocobalamin, Zoladex, Prostap (experience administering Inclisiran would be useful but not essential)
• Understanding of the clinical targets required in primary care for QOF and local enhanced services is essential to maximise patient outcomes and practice achievement
• Good understanding of infection prevention and control processes and best practice

Desirable:

• Womens Health: experience fitting implants and pessaries would be useful though not essential
• Prescribing experience would be useful though not essential
• We would consider applications from applicants with leadership experience who wish to continue to develop their skills in this area

About us
We have 14,000 patients, 8 GP Partners, 3 salaried GPs, 2 experienced nurses (one is a prescriber), a nurse associate and 2 HCAs. We are all committed to providing great patient care and to help our patients to manage their chronic diseases and overall health in a collaborative and positive way.

We are a high performing practice with a 'Good' CQC rating, high QOF and enhanced service achievement and we also run clinical trials and are an active part of clinical research programmes.

Job responsibilities

Experienced GP Practice Nurse
We are replacing an experienced nurse who has retired so our skills gap means we really need someone already trained and accredited to do the following duties:

Essential:

• Long-term condition management: run clinics and monitor patients with asthma, diabetes, COPD, CVD etc including reviewing patients, identifying poor control and liaising with GP colleagues to optimise health and medication, providing lifestyle advice and referral to community and other clinics if needed (spirometry, weight management etc)
• Womens and Sexual Health: perform cervical cytology screening, provide family planning advice and pill checks
• Full range of vaccinations and immunisations including childrens routine schedule, adult vaccinations including seasonal and catch up programmes
• Diagnostic Tests including venepuncture, performing ECGs, BP and urinalysis
• Travel Health advice and vaccinations (we are not a yellow fever centre)
• Ad hoc injections including administration of Hydroxocobalamin, Zoladex, Prostap (experience administering Inclisiran would be useful but not essential in-house training can be given)
• Understanding of the clinical targets required in primary care for QOF and local enhanced services is essential to maximise patient outcomes and practice achievement
• Good understanding of infection prevention and control processes and best practice

Desirable:

• Womens Health: experience fitting implants and pessaries would be useful though not essential
• Prescribing experience would be useful though not essential
• We would consider applications from applicants with leadership experience who wish to continue to develop their skills in this area

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Valid registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and full nurse qualification.
• Primary Care nursing experience
• Strong clinical assessment and communication skills
• Good team working skills
• You must have full UK working eligibility
• Offer subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Valid registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and full nurse qualification.
• Accredited to carry out cervical screening and women's health consultations, children's and adult's vaccinations - both routine and for travel or ad hoc
• Familiar with managing chronic long-term conditions through annual and ad hoc reviews - giving advice and recommending further assessment by GP, Community, Specialists where indicated
• You must have previous experience working as a nurse in general practice - due to retirement we have a skills gap we need to fill
• You must have full UK working entitlement

Desirable

• Womens Health: experience fitting implants and pessaries would be useful though not essential
• NMP qualification would be useful though not essential
• We would consider applications from applicants with leadership experience who wish to continue to develop their skills in this area

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.