NHS
Ambrose Avenue Group Practice in Colchester is a friendly and welcoming GP practice and are currently seeking a respiratory nurse to join our team. Working across our two sites, Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate, this is a full-time role, requiring 37.5 hours per week over five days. The successful applicant must have experience with asthma and COPD.
Main duties of the job
Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests. Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met. General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition. Running asthma, COPD clinics and reviews. Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs. Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence‑based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments. Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care. About us
Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly, long‑established, award‑winning, progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester, Essex. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,500 patients. The clinical team consists of eight GPs, GP trainee, four advanced nurse practitioners, three nurses, two healthcare assistants, and various allied health professionals, including GP assistant, health and wellbeing coach, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, care coordinator, social prescriber and care advisor. We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award‑winning team of mental health workers. Benefits include: Membership in the NHS pension scheme. Support for your personal and professional development. Excellent training and development opportunities. Enjoy an impressive total of 6 weeks annual leave, along with eight bank holidays (pro‑ratio) this increases with your continuous years of service in the NHS. Job responsibilities
Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please do nothesitate to get in contact with us. Experience
Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long‑term conditions. Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS. Qualifications
Current NMC registration with an active PIN. Competence to undertake asthma and COPD, holding relevant certificates. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests. Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met. General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition. Running asthma, COPD clinics and reviews. Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs. Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence‑based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments. Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care. About us
Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly, long‑established, award‑winning, progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester, Essex. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,500 patients. The clinical team consists of eight GPs, GP trainee, four advanced nurse practitioners, three nurses, two healthcare assistants, and various allied health professionals, including GP assistant, health and wellbeing coach, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, care coordinator, social prescriber and care advisor. We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award‑winning team of mental health workers. Benefits include: Membership in the NHS pension scheme. Support for your personal and professional development. Excellent training and development opportunities. Enjoy an impressive total of 6 weeks annual leave, along with eight bank holidays (pro‑ratio) this increases with your continuous years of service in the NHS. Job responsibilities
Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please do nothesitate to get in contact with us. Experience
Knowledge, and experience of its application, in supporting long‑term conditions. Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the wider NHS. Qualifications
Current NMC registration with an active PIN. Competence to undertake asthma and COPD, holding relevant certificates. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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