Senior Practice Nurse in Colchester inColchester PUBLISHED SUN 5 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

East Bergholt Surgery and Constable Country Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced senior practice nurse to join our team on a full-time /4 compressed days or 5 shorter days basis. This position is to work across both our sites and will be offered on a 12 month fixed term contract.

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.

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