Job Type Contract - Fixed Term Category Primary Care Location Balally, Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland Job Details Role Title: Enhanced Primary Care Nurse Role Location: Balally A 6 month fixed term contract position has arisen within Vhi for an Enhanced Primary Care nurse. The purpose of the role is to carry out screening of patients and enhanced primary care nursing duties. To support the enhanced primary care nurse lead in the delivery of care to the highest clinical standard across enhanced primary care. You may also be required to occasionally work with the Livewell/ HealthCheck@Work service providing screening to Vhi corporate customers and their employees on the client's premises. You will join a multidisciplinary team of health professional including GP's and AHSCP's in the delivery of effective and high-quality primary care, encompassing medical screening to all patients across multiple locations. Benefits: Excellent company Pension Health Insurance Role Purpose: Carry out medical screenings and other enhanced primary care nursing requirements of patients to the highest clinical standard. Duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Phlebotomy Primary childhood and adult immunisations ECG/ABPM Wound care/suture removal Chronic disease management Lifestyle management Medical screening Support the Enhanced Primary Care CNM 2 in ensuring standards are achieved and maintained. Provide leadership to agency nurses to ensure they are following policies and procedures. Participate in induction training and competency assessment for new starters/ agency nurses. Monitor and ensure that all required medical consumables and equipment are available, maintained and calibrated in the Medical Centre and maintain equipment logs. Manage clinical waste produced as per Vhi Health & Wellbeing guidelines. Answer patient queries as required. Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives and take a proactive role in identifying and suggesting areas for improvement. Work as part of a team to ensure patients receive excellent clinical and customer-focused experience. Support project work in the development of new initiatives within the Screening and primary care services. Other duties as may be required but will not expand outside your scope of practice. Support Screening services within our nationwide Corporate Sites Education & Knowledge: Certificates of competence in; Venepuncture, Infection Control and Hand Hygiene, Basic Life Support Manual and Patient Handling. Experience: Minimum of 3 years post graduate clinical nursing experience within the past 5 years. Demonstrated alignment to Vhi values Note: This role profile does not set out to capture every task to be carried out by the role holder but instead provide an overview of the main responsibilities of the job. It can be amended from time to time with reasonable notice to the role holder. Skills and Abilities Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Professional, courteous manner. Competent in computer skills. Experience of working in a Health Screening environment/Primary care is desirable. Flexibility to travel across multiple locations as required Must be registered on the General Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). VHI is an equal opportunities employer Accessibility If you are a candidate with a disability and encounter difficulty accessing any part of this website or wish to discuss any matter relating to the accessibility of our building or services, please contact Reasonable Accommodations Our commitment is to make any reasonable accommodation for you in the recruitment process to give you the best opportunity to perform to your optimum in the application, test, and interview process. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.