Practice Nurse

Job Title: Practice Nurse

Location: Lambeth

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Negotiable

About You:

Are you an experienced Practice Nurse seeking a permanent position where you can thrive?

Medacs Healthcare are supporting our client in the London region to speak to experienced practice nurses. This is your opportunity to provide exceptional care to patients and make a lasting impact in your community. Enjoy the stability of a permanent role, along with competitive pay and the chance to grow within a supportive environment.

We are looking to speak to individuals who;

• Must be a UK registered nurse with significant post registration experience
• Have a good knowledge on Quality outcomes framework.
• Can direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively, recognising when referrals are required.
• Can relay clinical information and maintain accurate, comprehensive consultation records.
• Have PC skills - ideally will be able to use basic Word, Excel, and e-mail.
• Are organised, friendly, approachable, polite, self-motivated, positive, and patient.
• Have empathy with patients, some of whom may not be so patient or polite due to anxiety.
• Can remain calm in sometimes fraught circumstances.
• Needs to be sensitive when dealing with confidential issues.
• Must be adaptable and comfortable dealing with changing priorities and be a team player.
• Must be aware of the professional boundaries they are working to and highlight any areas of required development and ensure continual professional development is maintained.
• Able to work in a changing environment and implement change when applicable to provide high quality health outcome.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, provide and implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of individuals in the practice population.
• Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients both at risk of developing a long-term condition and diagnosed chronic disease.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care e.g., diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation.
• Work with patients to support compliance and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Undertake health screening, surveillance, new-patient screens and immunisations.
• Assess and care for patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips and leg ulcer management.
• Vaccination and immunisations, administering injections, ensuring safe vaccine storage, implementing cold chain policy.
• Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines.
• To perform venipuncture
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.

How to Apply:

if you are interested, please apply today by submitting your CV via our application form below.

Unfortunately, we cannot consider applicants without valid UK work eligibility.

At Medacs Healthcare, we are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.