Practice Nurse - Enhanced Access

We are recruiting a Practice Nurse to join our friendly professional team to provide primary care services for Taurus Healthcare., We are looking for an experienced Practice Nurse with a passion for providing excellent nursing care to deliver general practice nursing services including chronic disease management, cervical cytology, contraception, wound care and supervision of HCAs and phlebotomists.,

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of patients.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care around diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation
• Manage patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips.
• Ensuring safe vaccine and cold chain storage
• Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl as prescribed by medical prescriber
• Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines following local procedures
• Give women advice on all forms of contraception aiding them to make an informed choice
• Provide sexual health assessment, advice and direct to appropriate testing, performing swabs if necessary.
• To perform venepuncture and NPT
• To perform ECGs
• To provide Hypertension checks, liaising with GP when BP out of target.
• Identify, and manage patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Utilise EMIS web templates to record clinical data
  
  Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
  
  Taurus Healthcare offer many employee benefits, such as:
• Access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 20.68% employer contribution.
• 33 to 38 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays, depending on service (pro rata for part-time staff).
• Access to an extensive Employee Benefits Programme (Vivup) offering:
• 24/7 access to counselling services
• Salary sacrifice scheme for cars and bikes
• Access to a wide range of discounts from national retailers
• Access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme., £22.24 to £24.42 an hour Inclusive of unsociable hours uplift