Treatment Room Nurse - Maternity Cover
Opening for a Practice Nurse working across sites at Bridge View Medical on a FTC
| Closing date | |
|---|---|
| Salary | £18.48 to £21.18 an hour Depending on experience |
| Site | Across sites |
| Location | Bridge View Medical |
1. Job Summary:
To provide nursing care to patients in participation with GPs or independently, working to agreed protocols. Required skills (or a willingness to be trained) may include the following (but this list is not exhaustive):
- Vaccinations (with additional paediatric vaccination certification an advantage)
- Wound care management (including compression bandaging, in line with current evidence-based guidelines)
- Ear irrigation
- Routine immunisations and vaccinations given under a Patient Group Direction
- Cervical Screening
- Management of Long-Term Conditions such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes
- Contraceptive pill checks / sexual health
2. Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide emergency care to patients as necessary and attend annual Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis training
- Chaperoning and assisting, where appropriate, patients who are being examined
- Undertake the collection, storage and dispatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, smears etc and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment used, as per policy
- Assisting in the implementation and management of appropriate health and safety and infection control policies, as defined in local and national polices
- Contributes to management of stock and ordering stock where required
- Contributes to management of medicines and vaccines as per policy
- To recognise and appreciate that people, both colleagues and service users are different and to act in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences
- To ensure that all mandatory training is completed as appropriate and does not become outstanding
3. Person Specification:
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Enthusiastic and motivated to learn new clinical skills where currently not trained
- Good time management with the ability to organise daily tasks and prioritise time sensitive tasks
- Able to deal with change in a rapidly changing environment Personable and approachable
- Hard working
- Reliable and resourceful
- Trustworthy and reliable
- Accountability of own role within a nurse-led service
- Able to build effective working relationships at all levels
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues in Primary Care Knowledge of the local and national health policy and the wider health economy
Experience
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in teams within a clinical setting
- Willing to undertake training relevant to the position
- Accountable to own professional development and performance and act as a role model to others
Desirable criteria
- Experience within a Primary health care setting
- Experience in resource/medicine management
- Experience of using Microsoft office eg. Word, Excel
- Use of clinical systems software e.g. EMIS
- Experience working with Patient Group Directions
- Experience in mentoring student nurses
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC PIN
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications and experience in the management of Long-Term conditions such as asthma, COPD and diabetes