Practice Nurse - Enhanced AccessNHS

Job summary

Are you a passionate and experienced Practice Nurse seeking a challenging and rewarding role within a dynamic primary care setting? We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our Enhanced Access Service team as a Practice Nurse.

Main duties of the job

• Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
• Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF.
• Request pathology services as required.
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients into secondary /specialist care as required.
• Maintain accurate clinical records
• Ensure read codes are used effectively.
• Deliver well woman clinics.
• Deliver well man clinics.
• Carry out cytology screening including smears.
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within scope of practice).
• Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.

Job description

For further details please see full Job Description document on NHS job listing for Practice Nurse Position.

About us

Employment will be with OWLS CIC Ltd West Lancashire GP Federation, as a central function to the GP Practices and Primary Care Network (PCN) members. OWLS CIC is a small GP owned and led not-for-profit primary care organisation, run by GPs and health professionals. OWLS was founded in the 90s by a small group of General Practitioners, with the main aim of ensuring high quality out of hours services. In 2017 it transitioned to become a GP Federation to support and provide services for its practices and to offer a vehicle that local GPs had an opportunity to bid for, and provide, innovative primary care services in their local area. We are a not-for-profit organisation, which means that all the money we generate through service contracts is invested back into providing patient care