Practice Nurse inWarrington inWarrington PUBLISHED THU 6 MAR 2025
Penketh Health Centre rY1FH6TL
In this role, you’ll not only assess and manage health issues but also champion health promotion strategies that inspire well-being in our community. Collaborating closely with colleagues, you’ll engage in vaccination programmes for all ages, conduct chronic disease management clinics, and support patients in adhering to their prescribed treatments. If you’re a motivated individual looking to make an impact in the care sector, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in transforming lives and nurturing a healthier future together!
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Practice Nurse to join our esteemed nursing team. This position is offered on a full or part time basis between 15 to 30 hours. The successful candidate will provide high quality patient care, manage their own QOF area and support in long term condition reviews such as Diabetes and Asthma.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
- Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and other chronic disease management reviews.
About us
Undertake, record and follow guidelines for the tasks for which you have received appropriate training and achieved competence;
Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care, procedure, intervention.
Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies in healthy living.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with long term conditions.
Work with other health professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat patients with long term conditions.
Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patients needs and evidence-based practice
Support adherence for the recall of patients with long term conditions and adherence to prescribed medication.
Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing conditions in line with the National service Frameworks.
Participate in and promote the national screening programmes, including cervical cytology.
Participate in and promote the national immunisation programmes for children and adults with appropriate training.
Administer Adult/Child vaccinations under agreed PGD/PSD directives
Participate and support patients attending for travel vaccination, with appropriate training.
Perform opportunistic and planned NHS health screening checks.
Support patients in general health promotion, healthy lifestyle and promote self-well-being with appropriate referral as indicated.
Participate with QoF, enhanced services and medicines management initiatives to maintain practice high achievements in these areas.
Undertake appropriate activities/responsibilities related to own lead areas.
Support the PCN initiative.
Support and participate in shared learning across practice and wider organisation.
Support the nurse team and respond to requests for home visits to housebound patients;
Assist GPs in Family Planning procedures/chaperone as necessary for intimate examinations.
Assist GPs in the running of child developmental assessments.
Provide support and guidance to the health care assistants and junior staff as needed.
Support the Nurse Manager in her role on behalf of the Partners/Managers.
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