Practice Nurse RGN
Minehead, Somerset – Permanent, onsite
£17.00 - £23.00 per hours – DOE
Meridian Business Support is currently recruiting for a Nationwide Client who is seeking a Practice Nurse to work in their GP Practice in Minehead.
The successful candidate must have experience of patients with a variety of long-term health conditions, be comfortable with change, able to work autonomously and keen to work in non-traditional care systems. A willingness to learn and develop their skills and undertake training relevant to their role is also essential, with an openness to support the wider nursing team.
You will have a passion for supporting patients to be healthy by utilising your skills in health prevention, screening, and early management of long-term health conditions. You will strive to continuously deliver quality and safe services to a high standard.The post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively with the wider team to deliver excellent nursing care and to maximise Practice income such as QOF and enhanced service contracts.
The successful candidate must:
- Be a certified Registered Nurse
- Have a current NMC registration
- Have knowledge of patients with long term conditions
- Be familiar with patient group directions (PGD’s) and associated policy
- Be able to work autonomously
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload
- Have a willingness to learn and develop
- Be able to work collaboratively with the wider team
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Practice Nurse Core Responsibilities will involve:
- Venepuncture
- Blood pressure
- ECG
- Height/Weight/BMI
- Health Promotion
- Childhood and Adult Immunisations
- Wound Care
- Contraception
- Cervical Screening
- Spirometry
- Long-term condition management such as Diabetes, COPD, Asthma
- Some experience of long-term condition management and cervical screening is essential.
Benefits:
- NHS Pension with 20.6% Employer Contribution
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata, if part-time), to increase with service
- Extra days leave for work anniversary each year
- Enhanced Maternity, Maternity / Paternity Support, Adoption pay
- Family friendly employment policies
- Special and Significant Event Leave
- Participation in OMG’s refer a friend scheme
- 24/7 free access to an Employee Assistance Program run by awarding winning Health Assured
- Eye care scheme – free eye test plus a contribution towards glasses
- Cycle to work scheme
- Training opportunities
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.