Practice Nurse

Long Stratton Medical Partnership has an exciting opportunity for a practice nurse who has experience in primary healthcare to join our excellent practice, on a full or part time basis for a minimum of 30 hours per week.,

• Responsibility for meeting the nursing care needs of patients identified by the nurse, or where care has been transferred to the nurse by the GP.


• Triage of patients seen in the Treatment Room, or by telephone; offering advice, nursing treatment and/or emergency or routine referral to the doctors, or specialist nurse, or other agencies if appropriate.


• Responsibility for identifying care needs within the practice population, by practice profile or audit; and organising work to best meet the needs identified.


• Managing nursing care of those patients with chronic disease, operating specific clinic sessions if needed, and maintaining an appointment and recall system for patients.


• Liaising with other members of the primary health care team and other agencies, in order to assure appropriate care is provided to the practice population.


• Involvement in policy development within the practice, providing the nursing input in any decision-making processes affecting the care of patients.


• Teaching other practice nurses and other members of the practice nurse team (nursing assistants/phlebotomists).


• Evaluating and adapting nurse methods of patient care as part of regular in-house clinical supervision sessions.
  
  At Long Stratton Medical Partnership, we take pride in being a family focused, close knit team our work family is how we often describe ourselves. We offer a supportive, positive culture which is well-lead, and provide regular supervision and training for all staff. Long Stratton is a small town in South Norfolk, 10 miles from the historic city of Norwich. We have 11,500 patients on our list, a CQC rating of Good and operate from both our main site and a branch site in Newton Flotman. We are also a dispensing practice with a dispensing list of around 5,500 patients. We use EMIS Web and run cloud-based telephony which links seamlessly with the clinical system and provides excellent functionality.