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Job role: Practice Nurse/Lead Nurse
Salary: Depending on experience
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: A3398-26-0003
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About the Job:
The Practice Nurse will provide a range of nursing services to patients registered at Hartwood Healthcare, working as part of our wider clinical team.
Duties will include:
- Providing routine Practice Nurse clinics and appointments.
- Supporting the assessment and management of patients with acute and long-term conditions, within your scope of practice.
- Wound care, including dressing changes and removal of sutures and staples where appropriate.
- Venepuncture and ECGs.
- Immunisations and vaccinations.
- Cervical screening, where appropriately trained.
- Health promotion and preventative healthcare.
- Supporting patients with self-management and healthy lifestyle choices.
- Reviewing and acting on investigations and results within your scope of practice.
- Recognising when patients require further clinical assessment and referring or escalating appropriately.
- Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.
- Working collaboratively with GPs, nurses, Healthcare Assistants, pharmacists and the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Contributing to clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activity where appropriate.
- Working in accordance with the NMC Code, practice policies and relevant national guidance.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
