# Practice Nurse

**Company**: Lanfranc Medical Centre
**Location**: Harrow
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Lanfranc Medical Centre is looking for an experienced, motivated and enthusiastic Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive primary care team on a part-time basis for 10 hours per week.

The successful candidate will play an important role in delivering comprehensive, high-quality nursing care to our patient population and will work collaboratively with GPs, Healthcare Assistants and the wider practice team to provide safe, effective and patient-centred clinical services.

**Main duties of the job**

- Chronic disease management, including reviews for diabetes, asthma, COPD and hypertension

- Cervical screening/cytology

- Childhood and adult immunisations and vaccinations

- Administration of medications, vaccinations and injections in accordance with relevant protocols and guidelines

- Wound care and dressings

- Venepuncture and other routine clinical procedures

- NHS Health Checks

- Health promotion, lifestyle advice and patient education

- Maintaining accurate, clear and contemporaneous clinical records

- Supporting infection prevention and control, clinical governance and quality improvement

- Working collaboratively with GPs, Healthcare Assistants and the wider multidisciplinary team

- Undertaking other appropriate Practice Nurse duties in accordance with competency, training and the needs of the practice

**Person Specification**

- Previous experience working as a Practice Nurse within General Practice / Primary Care

- Experience of delivering immunisations and vaccinations

- Experience of cervical screening

- Experience in the management of long-term conditions

- Experience in wound care and general treatment-room nursing

- Excellent clinical and patient-care skills

- Good written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work independently within professional competence

- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team

- Good organisational and time-management skills

- Ability to maintain accurate clinical records

- Understanding of patient confidentiality and information governance

- Commitment to maintaining and developing professional knowledge and clinical competence

- Ability to adapt to changing priorities within a busy General Practice environment

## Skills

### Required
- Practice Nursing
- Chronic Disease Management
- Cervical Screening
- Immunisations
- Wound Care
- Venepuncture
- NHS Health Checks
- Health Promotion

### Nice to have
- EMIS Web
- Travel Health

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