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Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse Job Type: Permanent Senior Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse Leatherhead KT22 7PZ Our client is a small Medical Practice of around 6000 patients across 2 sites. They are a close knit and supportive team who are now looking to recruit a Practice/ Primary Healthcare Nurse who is interested in supporting their local population. Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Practice Nurse/ Primary Healthcare Nurse to join their team and help work with the practice to achieve their overall goal of supporting Health and Wellbeing around the Leatherhead area. Key Responsibilities: · Deliver a high standard of patient care using high level autonomous clinical skills and a broad and in-depth theoretical knowledge base · Deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting. Responding effectively to patient need and ensuring patient choice and ease of access to services. · Promote healthy lifestyles and participate in national immunisation and screening programmes. · Enable patients to manage their long term health care needs and to achieve their full potential in terms of independent living. · Actively encourage and facilitate choices for patients by providing health promotion during routine screening procedures e.g: new patient health checks, cervical cytology and long term conditions management. · Communicate complex information to patients and relatives where needed with a variety of diverse needs, using negotiation and persuasive skills to motivate. · Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure the National Service Frameworks are being delivered. Clinical Responsibilities: Undertake clinical duties with relevant training in some or all of the areas · Adult and paediatric immunisations · Smears · Management of chronic conditions · Vaccinations Essential Qualifications: · Registered General Nurse (Currently registered with the NMC) · Qualification in cytology and or family planning · Competent with adult and child immunisations · Experience of working in community/primary care · Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up to date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of practice nurse role. · Experience of working across organisational boundaries · within health and social care. · Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of · own clinical practice. · Enhanced paternity/ maternity leave · Wellness Beneifts – Private Healthcare#J-18808-Ljbffr