Job Introduction
We are looking for a Practice Nurse to join our team at Meridian Practice, where we are committed to delivering excellent care to our community through innovation, teamwork, and a passion for healthcare delivery.
About Meridian Practice:
The Meridian Practice is a specialist GP service for asylum seekers and refugees in Coventry. Currently practice has 4100 registered list and mixed skills of GP / Nurses working. The healthcare team based in Coventry deliver holistic health care for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems using advanced nursing skills. We provide services to meet the needs patients who attend the Practice and aim to make a difference to people’s lives in their community.
The practice is managed by the Practice manager and Lead GP clinical lead. As a Practice Nurse based at Coventry, you will work alongside a team of 5 number fellow dedicated and highly skilled healthcare professionals.
At HCRG care group we like to do things differently and we take the responsibility of the work/life balance of our valued Nurses very seriously. The busy Meridian practice is open 5 days a week from 8:00 am to 18:30 pm (excluding bank holidays) and means we can offer a variety of working patterns to fit in with your life. It also means that not only can you make a difference to the community and those in most need but those working patterns are flexible.
Main Responsibility
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 Candidate
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
Package Description
As a Practice Nurse you will be part of our valued team at our Meridian Practice, Coventry within our Primary Care Service.
You will feel valued as a Practice Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 salary + 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
About the Company
We 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 adjust-ments 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 vulner-able 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 disclo-sure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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