Job summary
Newport Pagnell Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on a part-time basis, for 30 hours per week

Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Experience with all aspects of the treatment room ie wound care, compression bandaging, vaccines for babies & adults
• Experience of travel &/or diabetes would be an advantage
• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication & treatments, & performing diagnostic tests
• Providing & evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health & social care needs are met
• General health & well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition
• Managing & treating long-term conditions in line with national & local policies & the practice needs
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national & practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments
• Prioritising health problems & intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Supporting & managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health & contraception, & cervical cytology consultations
• Implementing, & participating in, vaccination & immunisation programmes for both adults & children, including patients travelling abroad
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care
• Hypertension review & management
• Running asthma, COPD & diabetes clinics & reviews
• New patient & health checks

About us
Newport Pagnell Medical Centre is a large training practice based in the town of Newport Pagnell. We have two further remote sites, one in Willen and another in Newport Pagnell. Our three practices form The Bridge PCN.

Benefits include:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children's pension
• Ill health benefits
• 20% employer contribution
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Health service discounts
• Access to the Wisdom app which is our employee advisory and wellbeing platform

Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification
All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience:

Essential

• A relevant nursing degree.
• Current NMC registration with an active PIN.
• 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.

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

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.