Southend Medical Centre has an exciting new opportunity, we are looking to recruit a qualified and experienced Junior Nurse on a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave starting asap until June 2025
The main duties of the role include:
To work under the guidance and support of our Registered Practice Nurse, facilitate clinical care in a holistic and proactive manner to patients registered at the practice.
To maintain a high professional standard of nursing care in adherence to all Practice protocols, policies and guidelines, as well as to provide nursing assistance to the GPs and other members of the primary healthcare team. It is essential that the Nurse works within their own level of competency and own scope of practice.
The vacancy would suit a newly qualified junior nurse at the beginning of their nursing career who wants to establish their role in general practice, or alternately an experienced practice nurse that would like to reduce pressure and workload for a more work life, home life balance by stepping back into a lighter role
Essential skills and qualifications include, a Foundation degree as a Registered Nurse, NMC Registration, experience of working in a primary care, competent in cervical screening, childhood immunisations, vaccines, staple and suture removal, basic wound care and experience in SystmOne. Desirable qualifications include, Asthma, COPD, Stop Smoking, Contraception and Complex Wound Care.
Southend Medical Centre is a 7200 patient practice with a friendly team that strives to provide an outstanding service to its patients by using our shared expertise to tackle the challenges of General Practice today. We are proud to be a multi-cultural surgery, we have been accredited with several awards including our Pride in practice LGBTQIA+ Gold award, our Veterans Friendly Practice award, our Dementia Awareness Practice award, our Trauma Informed surgery accreditation and were finalist in the Impact Awards Practice of the Year 2023. We hold patient care at the forefront of our minds and we fly the flag for the future of healthcare by being a training and research studies practice.
Fixed term contract.
Shift pattern: Monday, Thursday and Friday Preferred hours 0900-1330 and 1430-1730 7.5 hours x 3 = 22.5hours. Hours negotiable for right candidate
(We have another surgery in our PCN needing 8 hours Nurse Hours on Wednesday, which could be combinable)