Practice Nurse

The postholder 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, 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

Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is committed to supporting and delivering high-quality primary care services to the local population and strengthening and developing general practices.

Formed in June 2014, we are a private company limited by shares, and as such, we are wholly owned by the practices within our Federation. 94 percent of general practices in Coventry and 45 percent of practices in Rugby, covering a total population of around 450,000.

We continue to provide a range of high quality, accessible and responsive services, whilst always looking forward to find new ways to support general practice and our local population.

Our aim is to strengthen primary care for a stronger NHS. Our work plan continues to evolve to support local and national local policy developments, as well as local practice, Network and partner needs in terms of Supporting, Innovating, Delivering and Educating.