Northumbria Primary Care are excited to announce an opportunity for a motivated Practice Nurse to join our team at Spring Terrace Health Centre and Park Parade Surgery. This will role ill be based across both surgeries.
The post holder will work alongside our current practice nurse ad HCAs to deliver a high standard of enhanced nursing services to the whole practice population including chronic disease management, health promotion, maintaining immunisations and screening programmes.
We ae looking for a highly motivated and skilled and enthusiastic team player who can demonstrate high standards of clinical excellence. You will become part of an experienced, pro-active and friendly team working to serve patients cross NPC.
The successful candidate will ideally be fully competent in Primary Care Nursing duties however full training will be offered to the right candidate. They will complete competencies in primary care nursing duties, carrying out long term condition reviews, (Asthma, Hypertension, COPD, Diabetes etc), smears, baby immunisations, taking blood samples and travel vaccines. The post holder will frequently work unsupervised and is accountable for their practice. This will require critical thinking and skills in decision making in the management of patients.
As an experienced nurse you will be a role model, using compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the organisation. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others and uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement. This will facilitate team working and collaboration within teams and departments and across organisational boundaries.
The successful candidate may at times be required to work across all GP Practices within NPC
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 50,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Whilst appointees will have a base practice within NPC, they may be asked to work at other practices across our group. We do however limit this as much as possible as we appreciate continuity is vital to effective primary care.
Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before applying to join our fantastic organisation.
To provide a needs led focused service dictated by the Practice Strategy and the framework of the NHS modernisation agenda.
To be accountable for ensuring that agreed professional standards are reflected in clinical practice supporting the delivery of policies and procedures.
To deliver a high standard of clinical skills to support the provision of enhanced nursing services to the whole practice population including chronic disease management, health promotion, maintaining immunisation and screening programmes.
To work collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients using evidence-based care principals.
To promote an environment conducive to the training needs of staff and students and participate in education programs as required.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables, and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024
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