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Job Introduction
Practice Nurse
Leicester
£27,655 - £47,672 with additional payments for unsociable hours
Enhancements / Benefits:
You will attract an additional 30% when working Monday to Friday evenings and 45% working weekends.
Generous annual leave entitlement & NHS Pension – we also honour NHS continuous service – bring your entitlement with you!
DHU Healthcare is a ‘not-for-profit’ community interest company providing a diverse range of services to the NHS frontline, including urgent and emergency care, primary care, out of hours services and NHS111. We care for patients across the West and East Midlands – a population totaling around 14 million. As a socially conscious organisation, we provide compassionate, high-quality care to our patients and offer a supportive work environment to our 2,500 DHU employees. If you would like to find out more about us, you can visit our website at Our profile: DHU Healthcare.
About the role
As a Practice Nurse, you will be responsible for is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care for the whole practice population. The post holder can work alone without direct support within own levels of competency, undertaking nursing duties, and work with other practice staff to ensure the smooth running of the service. The post holder will use nursing skills to deliver the highest standards of nursing care in accordance with evidence-based practice and national practice protocols.
The post holder will participate in promoting and advancing DHU Health Care CIC, whilst working towards DHU’s Values, behaviour's, and principles
We are always:
- Compassionate – we show kindness, consideration and understanding in everything we do – and demonstrate our caring nature to our patient, people, and communities.
- Accomplished – we are available day and night – a response, adaptable, professional NHS partner, providing the best advice, care, and treatment for every individual.
- Respectful – we recognise the value that individual and team difference bring – welcoming views, listening, being honest, and learning from others’ experiences.
- Encouraging – we believe everyone matters, so we inspire confidence in other – promoting ‘speaking up’, fostering career-long learning and development, and supporting improvement ideas.
Responsibilities:
- To participate in clinical team meetings.
- To work within guidelines and policies, to support the implementation of policies in own work area and participate in working groups as required.
- To run clinics as directed by the clinical management team.
- To recognise the need for, initiate and where appropriate interpret relevant diagnostic investigations.
- To recognise the need for and initiate where appropriate advice of relevant specialisms.
- To provide health promotion/accident prevention advice for patients and carer's.
- Develop and maintain competency in core clinical skills including: -
- Ear Care
- ECG recording
- Phlebotomy and Cannulation
- Wound Management
- Spirometry Recording and Interpretation
- Sexual Health Screening
- Wound Care
- First Aid and Emergency Medical Management of Life-Threatening Conditions
- Ambulatory Monitoring
- Immunisation
- Gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonist injection administration.
- NHS health Checks
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring/Near Patient Testing
- To prescribe medication and work within the limitations of current extended Non-Medical Prescribing legislation.
- Discharge or refer patients as appropriate to internal or external clinical pathways.
- Support Clinical and Operational service leads.
Essential Skills:
- Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC Register
- Practice nurse Qualification or accredited long term condition modules
- Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and long-term conditions in primary care across the lifespan.
- Can formulate management plans for patients with Long Term Conditions
- Advanced Clinical Assessment skills
- Telephone Triage experience
- Has experience in one of the following:
- Primary Care / GP Surgery
- Emergency Care Centre's
- Out of hours facilities/WIC
Desirable Skills:
- Computer literacy. Familiarity with SystmOne, ICE, and Arden’s Templates Self-motivated, able to work without supervision, using own initiative to complete tasks.
- Be prepared to travel between different sites when on duty.
- ALS / PALS
- Cannulation and Venipuncture
- ECG recording and interpretation.
- Plastering Suturing and wound closure
- IRMER & X-Ray interpretation.
- Pathology interpretation Telephone triage
In return, we can offer:
Joining DHU means you will receive some great benefits. This will include access to the NHS pension scheme – alongside a generous annual leave allowance that grows with your length of service or recognises your existing NHS commitment. We provide an incremental sick pay scheme and family friendly policies like maternity and paternity pay that match the NHS offer, alongside working enhancements including an additional 30 - 45% of annual salary for unsociable hours benefit (earning potential will vary on shift days / times). We will also support your health and wellbeing - with complementary Westfield Health Insurance membership which covers basic costs like your dental care, glasses, physiotherapy, chiropody and many more.
At DHU Healthcare, we are committed to fostering an environment where Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and a strong sense of Belonging are not only celebrated but actively promoted. We believe that every individual, regardless of their background, deserves the right to access quality healthcare services and to be treated with respect and dignity. Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is at the heart of everything we do, from patient care to our organisational culture.