Nurse Prescriber

Kingsway Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced nurse prescriber to join our team on a part-time basis, for 4 days per week. You will need to be competent in reviewing minor illnesses on a day to day basis as well as patients with chronic long term conditions.,

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication & treatments, & performing diagnostic tests


• Providing & evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health & social care needs are met


• General health & well-being promotion.


• Creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition


• Managing & treating long-term conditions, in line with national & local policies & practice needs


• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national & practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments


• Prioritising health problems & intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care


• Supporting & managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health & contraception, & cervical cytology consultations


• Implementing & participating in, vaccination & immunisation programmes for adults & children, including travel abroad


• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care


• Hypertension review & management


• Running asthma, COPD & diabetes clinics & reviews


• New patient & health checks


About us

We are a large surgery, of c.14,000 patients, working out of a new medical centre. We have a clinical team of 2 GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, 2 advanced nurse practitioners, 2 nurse prescribers, 1 prescribing paramedic, 3 practice nurses, 1 HCA and 1 phlebotomist.We work closely with our primary care network staff and care coordinators as well as the additional PCN staff as follows: 3 first contact practitioners, 1 CPN, 1 mental health support worker, 2 social prescribers, a team of remote pharmacists, including a specialist pharmacist who looks after our care home residents & long term condition patients, & 3 paramedics who carry out our home visit requests & seasonal vaccinations for the care home & house-bound patients.

We have additional support with our SMI & maternity patients, & the patients/families/carers who have been diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease.

We are a SystmOne practice, using Patchs econsult system and Arden templates. Our clinical team are supported by 10 receptionists, 2 scanning clerks, 2 prescribing clerks, 2 medical secretaries, an assistant practice manager & practice manager.