Practice Nurse

The post holder 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.

Participate in audit and research to ensure high quality care.

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.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

Clinical

To work within the multidisciplinary team to meet common goals.

To participate in long term condition management for patients according to explicit protocols

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 and cancer screening advice.

Perform cervical cytology screening.

To provide opportunistic screening and advice on mens health.

To assist with planning and evaluating patient care.

Clinical Measurements such as 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

To advise, support and contribute to the education of other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Who are Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance?

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 to ensure that we continue to 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