Job summary
We are a three partner,two site,progressive
practice in North Sheffield looking to recruit a Practice Nurse to our friendly
supportive team across both sites.
We are looking for someone who can deliver a high
standard of nursing services to the practice population, including treatment,
screening and advice in accordance with the N.M.C. code of professional
conduct. Working with the GPs and nursing team to meet patients medical
needs.
The successful candidate will have excellent clinical
skills and be dedicated to patient care. They will be friendly and approachable
in order to integrate with our close-knit team. They will be focused and
reliable and be willing to work collaboratively and independently as required
by the clinical scenario.
Experience in COPD and asthma management as well as
spirometry would be a definite plus, but we are happy to provide full training/
access to appropriate courses.
We're looking for someone enthusiastic to complement our
established team.
INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE W/C 28 JULY 2025
Main duties of the job
Purpose
To deliver a high standard of nursing service to the practice population; including treatment, screening and advice in accordance with the N.M.C. Working with colleagues to provide core nursing care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Adhere to all practice policies and procedures.
Chronic disease management for conditions such as Asthma, COPD and Diabetes:
- Monitor and maintain patient registers and targets
- Perform audits
- Assist in maintaining the practice protocols.
Nursing duties including:
- Wound care
- Ear Syringing
- Adult and childhood immunisations
- Travel advice and immunisations
- Cervical cytology
- Contraception Advice
- Advice on general health and minor ailments
- Home visits to housebound patients.
Record Keeping
Document the assessment of need and delivery of care, for each patient seen.
Treatment Room Duties:
- Ensure that Infection Control procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure the Treatment rooms are kept clean and tidy.
- Manage vaccine ordering, including cold chain storage, distribution and monitoring.
- Ensure all medical equipment is maintained, regularly serviced and any faults reported.
Education and Training
- Maintain NMC registration.
- Maintain the PREP standard, ensuring that you are aware of up-to-date research-based evidence to support your role.
- Annual appraisal.
- Participate in training for yourself and others.
- Attend practice meetings.
About us
Our Practice team consists of 2 GP Partners, 1 Salaried
GP, 2 Practice Nurses, 1 HCA and 1 Phlebotomist alongside our friendly and
supportive administrative and reception team.
We meet every week for a variety of clinical, educational
and team meetings. We feel this is very important for both our education
and support of all the members of the team. In addition to this we have
monthly admin meetings for both clinicians and reception staff to keep us
up-to-date with the ever changing processes within Primary Care.
We are a training practice which keeps us thoroughly
up-to-date, we use SystmOne clinical systems and achieve
consistentlyexcellent QoF results. We care for just over 5200 patients
which gives us asmall 'family' feeland allows us to genuinely get
to know our patients and provide true continuity of care over time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post: Practice Nurse
Accountable to: Practice Manager and GP Partners
Place of Work: Elm Lane and Chapeltown Surgery
Job Purpose
To deliver a high standard of nursing services to the practice population across both sites; including treatment, screening and advice in accordance with the N.M.C code of professional conduct. Working with the GPs and nursing team to meet medical needs as appropriate.
Key Responsibilities:
Assessing the nursing needs of patients, providing appropriate care and treatment in conjunction with the GPs, or independently, as required and according to practice policy and protocols.
Have a range of clinical skills developed through experience and deal with patients needs with competence and according to practice policies and protocols.
These duties will include:
- Wound care-assessment and management
- Ear Syringing
- Venepuncture
- Pathology samples-send to laboratory and/or test in surgery as appropriate
- Hypertension management
- Adult and childhood immunisations
- Travel health advice and immunisations
- Cervical cytology
- New patient registration medicals
- Contraception Advice and annual checks
- Advice on general health care on minor ailments with referral to the GP as necessary
- Organise and make home visits to the elderly or other patients for routine health checks or treatments.
Chronic Disease Management
Assist in the provision of nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, as per practice policies and protocols, including:
- Asthma and COPD-using Spirometry
- Diabetes
- Coronary heart disease
- Hypertension
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Learning Disabilities
- Monitoring and maintaining patient registers for the above.
- Performing audits on the above.
- Assist in maintaining the practice protocols on all of the above.
Record Keeping
Document the assessment of need, delivery of care, the evaluation of the outcome of care and make changes to the care plan for the patient, ensuring that:-
- An appropriate entry is made in the patient medical records both paper and computer records.
- Appropriate forms are completed as necessary.
General Treatment Room Duties:
- Ensure that Infection Control procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure that instruments are cleaned, sterilised and stored in accordance with infection control policy.
- Ensure the Treatment rooms are kept clean and tidy.
- Manage, order and restock medical supplies in the treatment rooms and consulting rooms.
- Manage vaccine ordering, including cold chain storage and distribution, and fridge monitoring.
- Ensure all medical equipment is properly cared for, regularly services and any faults reported as soon as possible.
Information Technology
- Input of clinical data obtained during a consultation, including immunisations, BP etc.
- Retrieval of relevant medical information from the patient database for the purpose of medical audit or practice research.
Education and Training
- Maintain NMC registration, following the professional code of conduct.
- Maintain the PREP standards as outlined by the NMC, ensuring that the nurse is aware of up-to-date research based evidence to support her nursing care and to ensure clinical effectiveness.
- Prepare for and take part in an annual appraisal.
- Participate in the education and training of students and the induction of new members of staff.
- Attend practice meetings, and appropriate training courses as agreed by the GPs.
General Practice Policies and Procedures:
- Adhere to all practice policies and procedures.
- Contribute to practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive schemes, National benchmarking
- Deal courteously and efficiently with patients, maintaining strict confidentiality of patients and partners information.
- Cooperate with other members of staff, not jeopardising the work, aims or reputation of the Practice.
- Undertake any other duties which may be assigned by the partners or Practice Manager as can reasonably be expected.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post: Practice Nurse
Accountable to: Practice Manager and GP Partners
Place of Work: Elm Lane and Chapeltown Surgery
Job Purpose
To deliver a high standard of nursing services to the practice population across both sites; including treatment, screening and advice in accordance with the N.M.C code of professional conduct. Working with the GPs and nursing team to meet medical needs as appropriate.
Key Responsibilities:
Assessing the nursing needs of patients, providing appropriate care and treatment in conjunction with the GPs, or independently, as required and according to practice policy and protocols.
Have a range of clinical skills developed through experience and deal with patients needs with competence and according to practice policies and protocols.
These duties will include:
- Wound care-assessment and management
- Ear Syringing
- Venepuncture
- Pathology samples-send to laboratory and/or test in surgery as appropriate
- Hypertension management
- Adult and childhood immunisations
- Travel health advice and immunisations
- Cervical cytology
- New patient registration medicals
- Contraception Advice and annual checks
- Advice on general health care on minor ailments with referral to the GP as necessary
- Organise and make home visits to the elderly or other patients for routine health checks or treatments.
Chronic Disease Management
Assist in the provision of nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, as per practice policies and protocols, including:
- Asthma and COPD-using Spirometry
- Diabetes
- Coronary heart disease
- Hypertension
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Learning Disabilities
- Monitoring and maintaining patient registers for the above.
- Performing audits on the above.
- Assist in maintaining the practice protocols on all of the above.
Record Keeping
Document the assessment of need, delivery of care, the evaluation of the outcome of care and make changes to the care plan for the patient, ensuring that:-
- An appropriate entry is made in the patient medical records both paper and computer records.
- Appropriate forms are completed as necessary.
General Treatment Room Duties:
- Ensure that Infection Control procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure that instruments are cleaned, sterilised and stored in accordance with infection control policy.
- Ensure the Treatment rooms are kept clean and tidy.
- Manage, order and restock medical supplies in the treatment rooms and consulting rooms.
- Manage vaccine ordering, including cold chain storage and distribution, and fridge monitoring.
- Ensure all medical equipment is properly cared for, regularly services and any faults reported as soon as possible.
Information Technology
- Input of clinical data obtained during a consultation, including immunisations, BP etc.
- Retrieval of relevant medical information from the patient database for the purpose of medical audit or practice research.
Education and Training
- Maintain NMC registration, following the professional code of conduct.
- Maintain the PREP standards as outlined by the NMC, ensuring that the nurse is aware of up-to-date research based evidence to support her nursing care and to ensure clinical effectiveness.
- Prepare for and take part in an annual appraisal.
- Participate in the education and training of students and the induction of new members of staff.
- Attend practice meetings, and appropriate training courses as agreed by the GPs.
General Practice Policies and Procedures:
- Adhere to all practice policies and procedures.
- Contribute to practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive schemes, National benchmarking
- Deal courteously and efficiently with patients, maintaining strict confidentiality of patients and partners information.
- Cooperate with other members of staff, not jeopardising the work, aims or reputation of the Practice.
- Undertake any other duties which may be assigned by the partners or Practice Manager as can reasonably be expected.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1-2 years nursing experience or previous nurse associate experience in Primary Care
Desirable
- Working in a GP Practice
- SystmOne (TPP)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- *Wound care
- *Ear syringing
- *Venepuncture
- *Travel health
- *Health checks
- *Chronic disease management of asthma, COPD,
- hypertension and CHD
- *Computer literate
- *Cervical cytology
Desirable
- *Childhood immunisations
- *Spirometry
- *Infection control
- *Ordering of stock
- *Maintaining equipment
- *Medical audit
- *Developing policies and protocols
- *Supervising other staff
- *ECDL or equivalent
- *Sexual Health (Coil/Implant contraception fitting/removal)
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE (or equivalent) Grade A to C in English and Maths
- UKCC/NMC RGN/RN
Desirable
- Counselling skills
- MSc in nurse practitioner studies, plus supplementary post graduate level courses: extended and supplementary nurse prescriber
- Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
Attributes
Essential
- *Self-motivated
- *Team player
- *Effective communicator
- *Punctual
- *Good record keeping skills
- *Honest and reliable
- *Own transport
Desirable
- Flexible in covering colleagues absences
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1-2 years nursing experience or previous nurse associate experience in Primary Care
Desirable
- Working in a GP Practice
- SystmOne (TPP)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- *Wound care
- *Ear syringing
- *Venepuncture
- *Travel health
- *Health checks
- *Chronic disease management of asthma, COPD,
- hypertension and CHD
- *Computer literate
- *Cervical cytology
Desirable
- *Childhood immunisations
- *Spirometry
- *Infection control
- *Ordering of stock
- *Maintaining equipment
- *Medical audit
- *Developing policies and protocols
- *Supervising other staff
- *ECDL or equivalent
- *Sexual Health (Coil/Implant contraception fitting/removal)
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE (or equivalent) Grade A to C in English and Maths
- UKCC/NMC RGN/RN
Desirable
- Counselling skills
- MSc in nurse practitioner studies, plus supplementary post graduate level courses: extended and supplementary nurse prescriber
- Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
Attributes
Essential
- *Self-motivated
- *Team player
- *Effective communicator
- *Punctual
- *Good record keeping skills
- *Honest and reliable
- *Own transport
Desirable
- Flexible in covering colleagues absences
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).