Practice Nurse

Our Practice Nurses are key members of our team. You will be responsible for delivering safe, high quality nursing services to the practice population. We provide a wide range of primary health services under the GMS contract and Enhanced Services specifications, including minor surgery, minor injury, child health care, phlebotomy, chronic disease management, womens health, contraception services, travel clinics and minor illness.

We are looking for a Practice Nurse to further support our current nursing team. The successful candidate will deliver a high standard of patient care and use advanced autonomous clinical skills, enabling you to assess and manage chronic diseases, and diagnose and treat a wide variety of acute presentations. You will be competent in the usual Practice Nursing/Treatment Room skills, and ideally have Primary Care experience, but training will be provided for the right candidate. There is also a role for development and innovation to improve patient care., Providing treatment services and health education advice: including dietary advice, blood pressure checks, urinalysis, health screening, ear syringing, dressings, ECG, phlebotomy, routine injections, sexual health, contraception, routine immunisations and vaccinations, removal of sutures - clips, baby immunisations, assisting with the fitting of IUCD - IUS, first registration checks - health surveillance - general health advice, assisting with minor procedures in the treatment room, minor illness and acting as chaperone as required

Provide general and specific health screenings to the practice patients within agreed protocols with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary

Undertake initial assessment of patients presenting with wounds, working within expertise to manage independently or refer to other services as necessary.

Remove wound closure materials including sutures, clips and staples.

Take samples for the cervical screening programme according to recognised standards.

Provide ear care including removal of cerumen and provide education and advice.

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands.

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Lakeside Healthcare at Yaxley is a well-established surgery with a list size of over 19,000, which is growing. We usually achieve full QOF points and have been awarded the RCGP Quality Practice Award twice. The practice adopted a Doctor First access system in 2012 for all GP and Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Care Practitioner appointments.

Lead by a GP Partner and Lead AHP, you would be one of an overall Nursing Team of 19, including Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Care Practitioners, Practice Nurses and HCAs, all working together to provide first class primary care.

We strongly believe in learning and teaching to progress personal development.