We are looking for a practice nurse to join our dynamic team at Church Lane Surgery. Church Lane Surgery is a forward-thinking service that is committed to delivering excellent care to our patients through innovation, teamwork, and a passion for healthcare delivery. We are always striving to make a difference in primary care. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and concepts to enhance the quality of our service.
Within the surgery, we are currently undergoing a transformation to improve patient experience and engagement. We have redesigned the way we triage patients by creating a digital front door to our service. We have recently implemented a hub-based MDT triage model, underpinned by best-in-class technology, that is at the heart of helping to transform our care delivery model. Our patients can now submit requests digitally instead of waiting on the phone for hours to speak to a receptionist. The transformation has reduced pressure on the admin team who can now focus on other administrative tasks to support clinicians. Our new triage model has allowed our patients to access our service more rapidly and created an opportunity for clinicians to divert their time to patients with the most urgent requests. The work we have done has had a significantly positive impact on the way patients access our service. We look forward to having you join the transformation!
About Church Lane Surgery
Church Lane Surgery is run by HCRG Care Group on behalf of NHS England. We provide patients with access to high-quality healthcare in Braintree.
The role is based at Church Lane Surgery, in the heart of the historical Saxon town of Braintree, which is roughly 10 miles away from Chelmsford and 16 miles west of Colchester. Church Lane is a vibrant and dynamic surgery offering person centred care to 12,200 patients from the local area. We have a diverse, multi skilled team including paramedics, practice nurses, pharmacists and ANPs, offering a variety of different types of care to our patients as well as sub-specialist services.
We are committed to providing our patients with general practice services and equitable access to health care professionals. We offer a range of services and information as well as advice and treatment for a magnitude of illnesses and minor injuries.
Package Description
Salary of £37,000 + NHS Pension and annual leave
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
Main Responsibilities
Nursing procedures to include, but not limited to
Wound management
Measuring blood pressure & Venepuncture
Routine injections as prescribed
Cervical Smears
Childhood and Adult immunisations, including reading and reviewing Patient Group Directives (PGDs) and Patient Specific Directives (PSDs)
Well Person Health Checks including Foreign Travel Counselling, NHS Health Checks, Lifestyle and New Patient Checks
ECG’s
Spirometry
Obesity and weight/diet management
Family Planning
Chronic disease management and prevention ~ Diabetes, Hypertension, Hypothyroidism, Stroke, Epilepsy, IHD, COPD and Asthma
Leg ulcer management
Minor Injuries and Minor Illness
CVD risk assessments and Q risk interpretation and assessments.
Home visits for Housebound patients – to include routine checks (eg Diabetic) and flu vaccines.
Referrals – Podiatry, Counselling, Audiology, etc
Ensuring all specimens are checked and sent to laboratory as required
You will be fully conversant in QOF, read coding and uphold strategies to provide a holistic combined healthcare for the patient and demonstrate a willingness to participate in research/audit within the practice team.
You will be aware of DES/LES policies and apply and produce, alongside the Practice Manager, protocols that reflect the guidelines that are workable in the practice.
You will be aware of KPIs and work alongside the clinical and managerial team to meet these targets.
Participate in the education of students of all disciplines.
To be responsible for the efficient running of the treatment room and equipment and to ensure the clinical areas are always safe for staff and patients.
To lead on Infection Control in line with guidelines and policies.
Advise patients and relatives/carers on general health care and ailments with referral to GP’s as necessary.
The Ideal CandidateWe are keen to strengthen our team by identifying a forward thinking and highly motivated Practice Nurse who is committed to providing high quality clinical services and making a difference to the health inequalities of the area. We are looking to recruit a flexible, enthusiastic individual to work with us at Silver End who would enjoy working in a quaint village with a friendly but hard-working team.
The ideal candidate will have the below criteria:
Regulated Health Care professional with current registration
2 years + Experience with in primary or emergency setting
Experience of treating minor injury and minor illness.
Children and adult immunisation
Cervical cytology
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, di-verse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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