Enhanced Access Practice Nurse

The Enhanced Access service operates on behalf of PCNs across Coventry, Nuneaton and Atherstone, run from local General Practices. As one of our EA Practice Nurses you will be expected to undertake the following as part of their role: Work independently to provide excellent practice nursing care directly to patients; Participate in the delivery of routine surveillance and screening; Participate in the management of long-term conditions, contraceptive services, wound care, immunisations and vaccinations; Support the development of innovative and high-quality nursing practice, offering advice on service improvements based upon your experience and knowledge of the needs of patients; Provide General Practice Nursing duties on behalf of the patients General Practice and PCN.Main duties of the job Clinical To work within the multidisciplinary team to meet common goals. To provide family planning advice To administer IM Contraceptive injections as per protocol To administer childhood immunisations according to the national vaccination schedule Monitoring of ongoing treatments. To provide health education advice. Perform cervical cytology screening. To provide opportunistic screening and advice on patients health. To assist with planning and evaluating patient care. Clinical measurements including blood pressure recording, blood glucose monitoring and ECGs The administration of subcutaneous and intramuscular injections Undertake wound care and appropriate management of wounds. To provide Health Promotion in areas such as weight, smoking and alcohol. Teaching patients and their family self-care where appropriate. Assisting and or chaperoning the general practitioner. To work consistently within your own professional standards, maintaining an awareness of evidence based and current best practice. To ensure appropriate registration with your own professional body. To participate fully in the annual appraisal process and maintain own personal professional development. To participate in clinical supervision Maintain cleanliness and hygiene to infection control standard To support the maintenance of appropriate stock items in fridges and clinical areas and to adhere to cold chain policies

The Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is a private company limited by shares, wholly owned by local Coventry and Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 54 GP practice shareholders and cover nearly 420,000 patients. We describe our work in terms of Supporting, Innovating, Developing and Educating - we are on the S.I.D.E. of general practice and we have developed our Operational Plan to describe what we do to ensure that we continue to deliver high quality, accessible and responsive services for both practices and patients.

We have identified key areas that we will focus on to build upon and improve our existing services. These are our Strategic Priorities:

• Clinical Service Improvement & Delivery
• Clinical Innovation
• Primary Care Development Practice and Network Support
• Training and Education
• Integrated Care
• Good Governance
The CRGPA offers excellent company benefits including: NHS company pension Occupational sick pay Annual leave 27 days a year plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years. Viv up Scheme including Employee Assistance Programme and various discounts to national retailers and NHS blue light card.