Job summary
We are a medium sized friendly practice. Our nursing team all work together as a team and help each other, and also have good interactions with all the other teams in the practice. We are looking for a team player to join our friendly team. We are also a training practice with Registrars, student nurses and medical students.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with other clinicians to provide basic and higher level skill to ensure patient receive the best care possible. To ensure QOF coding is correct and reviews are followed up
About us
We have 7800 patients and our team consists of 2 GP Partners, 4 Salaried GP's 3 Nurse Prescribers, 2 Nursing Associates, 1 Phlebotomist and a Physician Associate. We also have 1 Practice Manager, 1 Assistant Practice Manager, 1 Care Co-Ordinator, 2 Secretaries and 7 receptionist.
Details
Date posted
23 October 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A0167-25-0003
Job locations
High Street
Rawmarsh
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S62 6LW
Job description
Job responsibilities
Practice Nurse Job Description
Hours of duty: Responsible to: Lead Practice Nurse Prescriber/QOF Manager Accountable to: GP Partners/Practice Manager
Salary scale: dependent on past experience
Job Purpose: This position in the practice aims to provide provision of high quality nursing care to meet the needs of the practice population; which includes treatment, screening, preventative care, patient education, clinical quality systems maintenance; and the supervision of any less qualified clinical colleagues, while working in partnership with other clinical, management and administrative colleagues to meet stated practice developmental goals.
Key responsibilities:
Clinical:
It is accepted that all clinical skills and competencies may not be available on joining. Training will be available if required and agreed.
To provide basic and higher levels of nursing care as needed for patients.
To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, ear car (including dressings) including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counter-parts, escalating to a GP as necessary and also provide supervision for less qualified nursing colleagues in the practice.
To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.
To conduct family planning consultations and assist the GPs in providing LARC services. T
To act as a chaperone or similar support for other colleagues as needed.
To conduct anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, ECG, ABPM, peak flow and other practice based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients.
To provide patient health promotion/ disease prevention education and counselling focusing on health behaviour change.
To assist members of the clinical team in providing a seamless service through an illness episode providing specific nursing capabilities and directing the nursing component of any illness episode.
To liaise with community nursing colleagues to continue the provision of nursing care in the home if patients are unable to attend the practice and to transfer or share care as appropriate, visiting outside the practice if needed on exceptional circumstances to meet the needs of patients.
To provide support to the GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc. by providing specifically defined clinical sessions, working closely with the GP to manage a patients overall care.
To manage and maintain chronic disease registers and work with admin staff to construct and maintain robust call and recall systems for chronic disease, cervical cytology, mammography, immunisation and other populations based health promotion and disease prevention care programmes, escalating where necessary patients who need intervention from a GP to insure a review as appropriate, constructing and maintain care pathways where patients receive appropriate investigations and reviews by an appropriate clinician at the appropriate time interval.
To promote the health and well being of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.
To provide support and guidance to patients in times of crisis, breaking bad news where necessary to patients and carers and provide on going support as needed.
To counsel patients on the meaning of test results and other medical information, conducting phone and in person consultations; triaging patients to an appropriate clinician, finishing a line of investigation, or arrange additional investigations as appropriate in line with practice guidelines and protocols and in partnership with clinical colleagues.
To eventually establish and participate in a robust system of clinical audit in partnership with other clinical and administrative colleagues, leading in areas appropriate, such as infection control, to a nursing skill set and supporting in other areas such as medicines management.
To maintain a register of patients receiving nursing on going nursing care.
To assist in the identification of patients at risk of acute decompensation of their baseline state of health and participate in measures needed to avoid emergency admissions and acute unplanned activity.
To provide leadership and support in all practice services, PMS, LES, DES and other incentive schemes.
Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs
Administrative:
To maintain accurate patient records, entering onto the practice system the appropriate agreed codes, using agree standards of data entry, templates and protocols, completing all documentation, computerised and paper-based, as is required for good patient care.
To maintain and document in robust systems of data collection, audit and review of all clinical activities, protocols, care pathways and clinical systems, liaising with fellow colleagues in the practice and in the local and national health system as needed to insure good patient care and service is maintained and to satisfy the standards of external regulatory bodies such as the CQC etc.
To collate the necessary data collection for QOF and other incentive schemes as needed by the practice, prompting other members of the team as needed for assistance in gathering the required data.
To create and maintain in cooperation with other nursing and admin colleagues a system of clinical stock and equipment maintenance, calibration, and supply; working closely with the practice manager to insure cost efficient purchasing of perishable and expensive items.
To ensure that all statutory requirements are met for a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff in cooperation with the practice manager and practice services manager.
To maintain all documentation needed to carry out your clinical duties.
To participate in Infection Control procedure and protocols and their implementation within the practice.
General:
To maintain your own annual registration with the NMC and adhere to its Code of Professional Conduct.
To promote a professional approach at all times by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the Practice, setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a whole.
To maintain you own continuous CPD and insure a PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development plans.
To participate in, and attend practice meetings and in-house training.
Provide appropriate constructive feedback to all members of the team and at times being prepared to challenge your colleagues, clinical and administrative, to maintain high standards of professionalism, patient care, service and excellence, prompting others to fulfil their own explicit and implicit responsibilities to patients and colleagues.
You may be required to perform other duties from time to time to meet the needs of patients and the practice.
Probable Competencies Leading to Success in the Position and Future Development
Ability work within a team and develop clinical, administrative and in due course leadership competencies.
Ability to work in a team of experienced clinicians: including GP partners
Ability to work with colleagues of various levels and expertise
Ability to motivate change, speak to influence, provide constructive feedback and suggestions for change on an interpersonal and systemic level.
Ability to think systemically and systematically
Ability to self-motivate, monitor performance and take action to maintain and improve personal effectiveness and performance.
Ability to institute change, project manage and maintain systems after they are established
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills articulate and persuasive - with the ability to teach, train, coach and persuade colleagues of variable roles, levels of responsibility and competencies.
Ability to prioritise and manage competing demands
Ability to accept and respond to no-blame critical culture which seeks to learn from mistakes
Ability to work under pressure and manage personal stress
Ability to self-monitor ones own physical and psychological health, take steps to mitigate any effect health may have on patient care, and ask for assistance as needed from colleagues, ones personal support system and personal GP.
A working knowledge of appraisal and HR processes.
High-level organisational skills, with competency in the use of most IM&T systems and paper systems as required. Numerate and able to use Excel and other managerial, productivity software
Highly familiar with System One and other clinical support software.
Ability to carry out audits, systematic reviews, and inspections, documenting them appropriately and presenting findings to the practice.
RGN Qualification
Accredited training in some CDM areas and willingness to become qualified in others, Diabetes and COPD are desirable
Training in cervical smears
Up to date in childhood immunisations and influencing parents in their importance
Family planning training
Our equal opportunities policy aims to ensure no job applicant, employee or worker is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity,race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Practice Nurse Job Description
Hours of duty: Responsible to: Lead Practice Nurse Prescriber/QOF Manager Accountable to: GP Partners/Practice Manager
Salary scale: dependent on past experience
Job Purpose: This position in the practice aims to provide provision of high quality nursing care to meet the needs of the practice population; which includes treatment, screening, preventative care, patient education, clinical quality systems maintenance; and the supervision of any less qualified clinical colleagues, while working in partnership with other clinical, management and administrative colleagues to meet stated practice developmental goals.
Key responsibilities:
Clinical:
It is accepted that all clinical skills and competencies may not be available on joining. Training will be available if required and agreed.
To provide basic and higher levels of nursing care as needed for patients.
To provide care for minor injuries, dressings, ear car (including dressings) including pressure bandaging and higher level wound care, liaising directly, where appropriate with community and secondary care counter-parts, escalating to a GP as necessary and also provide supervision for less qualified nursing colleagues in the practice.
To support the annual flu campaign and other mass population vaccination programmes as needed in line with national guidance.
To conduct family planning consultations and assist the GPs in providing LARC services. T
To act as a chaperone or similar support for other colleagues as needed.
To conduct anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, spirometry, urinalysis, phlebotomy, microbiology samples, ECG, ABPM, peak flow and other practice based tests as needed in the course of the care of patients.
To provide patient health promotion/ disease prevention education and counselling focusing on health behaviour change.
To assist members of the clinical team in providing a seamless service through an illness episode providing specific nursing capabilities and directing the nursing component of any illness episode.
To liaise with community nursing colleagues to continue the provision of nursing care in the home if patients are unable to attend the practice and to transfer or share care as appropriate, visiting outside the practice if needed on exceptional circumstances to meet the needs of patients.
To provide support to the GPs in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Hypertension etc. by providing specifically defined clinical sessions, working closely with the GP to manage a patients overall care.
To manage and maintain chronic disease registers and work with admin staff to construct and maintain robust call and recall systems for chronic disease, cervical cytology, mammography, immunisation and other populations based health promotion and disease prevention care programmes, escalating where necessary patients who need intervention from a GP to insure a review as appropriate, constructing and maintain care pathways where patients receive appropriate investigations and reviews by an appropriate clinician at the appropriate time interval.
To promote the health and well being of patients by counselling patients on the nature of their conditions, the use of their medications, diet, exercise and other health behaviours.
To provide support and guidance to patients in times of crisis, breaking bad news where necessary to patients and carers and provide on going support as needed.
To counsel patients on the meaning of test results and other medical information, conducting phone and in person consultations; triaging patients to an appropriate clinician, finishing a line of investigation, or arrange additional investigations as appropriate in line with practice guidelines and protocols and in partnership with clinical colleagues.
To eventually establish and participate in a robust system of clinical audit in partnership with other clinical and administrative colleagues, leading in areas appropriate, such as infection control, to a nursing skill set and supporting in other areas such as medicines management.
To maintain a register of patients receiving nursing on going nursing care.
To assist in the identification of patients at risk of acute decompensation of their baseline state of health and participate in measures needed to avoid emergency admissions and acute unplanned activity.
To provide leadership and support in all practice services, PMS, LES, DES and other incentive schemes.
Manage and treat long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and practice needs
Administrative:
To maintain accurate patient records, entering onto the practice system the appropriate agreed codes, using agree standards of data entry, templates and protocols, completing all documentation, computerised and paper-based, as is required for good patient care.
To maintain and document in robust systems of data collection, audit and review of all clinical activities, protocols, care pathways and clinical systems, liaising with fellow colleagues in the practice and in the local and national health system as needed to insure good patient care and service is maintained and to satisfy the standards of external regulatory bodies such as the CQC etc.
To collate the necessary data collection for QOF and other incentive schemes as needed by the practice, prompting other members of the team as needed for assistance in gathering the required data.
To create and maintain in cooperation with other nursing and admin colleagues a system of clinical stock and equipment maintenance, calibration, and supply; working closely with the practice manager to insure cost efficient purchasing of perishable and expensive items.
To ensure that all statutory requirements are met for a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff in cooperation with the practice manager and practice services manager.
To maintain all documentation needed to carry out your clinical duties.
To participate in Infection Control procedure and protocols and their implementation within the practice.
General:
To maintain your own annual registration with the NMC and adhere to its Code of Professional Conduct.
To promote a professional approach at all times by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the Practice, setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a whole.
To maintain you own continuous CPD and insure a PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development plans.
To participate in, and attend practice meetings and in-house training.
Provide appropriate constructive feedback to all members of the team and at times being prepared to challenge your colleagues, clinical and administrative, to maintain high standards of professionalism, patient care, service and excellence, prompting others to fulfil their own explicit and implicit responsibilities to patients and colleagues.
You may be required to perform other duties from time to time to meet the needs of patients and the practice.
Probable Competencies Leading to Success in the Position and Future Development
Ability work within a team and develop clinical, administrative and in due course leadership competencies.
Ability to work in a team of experienced clinicians: including GP partners
Ability to work with colleagues of various levels and expertise
Ability to motivate change, speak to influence, provide constructive feedback and suggestions for change on an interpersonal and systemic level.
Ability to think systemically and systematically
Ability to self-motivate, monitor performance and take action to maintain and improve personal effectiveness and performance.
Ability to institute change, project manage and maintain systems after they are established
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills articulate and persuasive - with the ability to teach, train, coach and persuade colleagues of variable roles, levels of responsibility and competencies.
Ability to prioritise and manage competing demands
Ability to accept and respond to no-blame critical culture which seeks to learn from mistakes
Ability to work under pressure and manage personal stress
Ability to self-monitor ones own physical and psychological health, take steps to mitigate any effect health may have on patient care, and ask for assistance as needed from colleagues, ones personal support system and personal GP.
A working knowledge of appraisal and HR processes.
High-level organisational skills, with competency in the use of most IM&T systems and paper systems as required. Numerate and able to use Excel and other managerial, productivity software
Highly familiar with System One and other clinical support software.
Ability to carry out audits, systematic reviews, and inspections, documenting them appropriately and presenting findings to the practice.
RGN Qualification
Accredited training in some CDM areas and willingness to become qualified in others, Diabetes and COPD are desirable
Training in cervical smears
Up to date in childhood immunisations and influencing parents in their importance
Family planning training
Our equal opportunities policy aims to ensure no job applicant, employee or worker is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity,race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Practice nursing qualifications
- Educated A to C in Maths and English
- Must be registered with NMC
Desirable
- Long term conditions
- Knowledge of QOF
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Practice nursing qualifications
- Educated A to C in Maths and English
- Must be registered with NMC
Desirable
- Long term conditions
- Knowledge of QOF
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
High Street Surgery
Address
High Street
Rawmarsh
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S62 6LW
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
High Street Surgery
Address
High Street
Rawmarsh
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S62 6LW
Employer's website
Employer contact details
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Details
Date posted
23 October 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A0167-25-0003
Job locations
High Street
Rawmarsh
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S62 6LW