Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Practice Nurse to join our dedicated team. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical skills and a passion for delivering high-quality patient care within a GP surgery setting. This role is pivotal in supporting our GPs and healthcare team in delivering a wide range of services to our patient population.
As a Practice Nurse, you will be responsible for carrying out general nursing duties, performing minor treatments, assisting with chronic disease management, and providing advice and support to patients. The role also involves working closely with the broader healthcare team to ensure the smooth running of the surgery and promote patient health and well-being.
This vacancy will remain open until a suitable applicant is appointed. Early applications are encouraged, as the advert may close once the right candidate has been identified.
Main duties of the job
Work closely with GPs, healthcare assistants, and other medical staff to provide holistic patient care.
Conduct health assessments and screen patients for common conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma
Assist in the management of long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and COPD.
- Monitor and track patient progress, ensuring regular reviews are scheduled.
- Offer advice on medication management and ensure patients are following treatment plans.
- Perform routine clinical procedures such as blood pressure measurements, ECGs, ear syringing, and spirometry.
- Take blood samples and prepare specimens for laboratory testing.
- Pessary fitting and management
- Cytology
- Wound care / ulcer care
- Doppler
- Removal of Sutures
- Urinalysis
- Routine immunizations/Childhood immunisations/Travel Immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate
- Maintain and promote Infection Control and prevention standards within the practice
- Foster a supportive and welcoming environment for patients, addressing any concerns they may have about their care.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date patient records in accordance with practice policies and confidentiality requirements.
We are committed to safeguarding patients and vulnerable people.
About us
We are a very friendly, cohesive, welcoming and happy GP Practice who passionately believe in the importance of strong primary care for our community.
We are a supportive team that looks constantly to how we can improve, develop and grow.
Our clinical team currently consists of 2 GP Partners, Salaried GPs, 2 Prescribing Paramedics, 3 Practice Nurses, 3 HCA's and a Phlebotomist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The practice nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare team providing Personal Medical Services to the patients of practice.
Job responsibilities:
Work closely with GPs, healthcare assistants, and other medical staff to provide holistic patient care.
Conduct health assessments and screen patients for common conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma
- Assist in the management of long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and COPD.
- Monitor and track patient progress, ensuring regular reviews are scheduled.
- Offer advice on medication management and ensure patients are following treatment plans.
Perform routine clinical procedures such as blood pressure measurements, ECGs, ear syringing, and spirometry.
Take blood samples and prepare specimens for laboratory testing.
- Pessary fitting and management
- Cytology
- Wound care / ulcer care
- Doppler
- Removal of Sutures
- Urinalysis
- Routine immunizations/Childhood immunisations/Travel Immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate
- Maintain and promote Infection Control and prevention standards within the practice
Foster a supportive and welcoming environment for patients, addressing any concerns they may have about their care.
Maintain accurate, up-to-date patient records in accordance with practice policies and confidentiality requirements.
Other tasks will include:
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons, in accordance with practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety
The post-holder will be responsible for their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Awareness of the correct and safe management of the specimen process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Awareness of hand hygiene across the practice
- Awareness of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Awareness of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Awareness of practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (annually)
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
Equality and diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues by:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development requirements for revalidation are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Safeguarding:
The post-holder to be aware of all current Safeguarding policies which are available on our TeamNet portal.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The practice nurse will work as part of the primary healthcare team providing Personal Medical Services to the patients of practice.
Job responsibilities:
Work closely with GPs, healthcare assistants, and other medical staff to provide holistic patient care.
Conduct health assessments and screen patients for common conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma
- Assist in the management of long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and COPD.
- Monitor and track patient progress, ensuring regular reviews are scheduled.
- Offer advice on medication management and ensure patients are following treatment plans.
Perform routine clinical procedures such as blood pressure measurements, ECGs, ear syringing, and spirometry.
Take blood samples and prepare specimens for laboratory testing.
- Pessary fitting and management
- Cytology
- Wound care / ulcer care
- Doppler
- Removal of Sutures
- Urinalysis
- Routine immunizations/Childhood immunisations/Travel Immunisations
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referral to senior nurses or GPs as appropriate
- Maintain and promote Infection Control and prevention standards within the practice
Foster a supportive and welcoming environment for patients, addressing any concerns they may have about their care.
Maintain accurate, up-to-date patient records in accordance with practice policies and confidentiality requirements.
Other tasks will include:
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Participation in administrative systems in the Practice
- A duty to advise senior nurses of potential problems or errors within a range of assigned tasks
- Attend and participate in any Practice meetings when required.
- On occasion there may be a requirement to undertake home visits
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons, in accordance with practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety
The post-holder will be responsible for their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Awareness of the correct and safe management of the specimen process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Awareness of hand hygiene across the practice
- Awareness of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Awareness of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Awareness of practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (annually)
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection
- Spillage control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
Equality and diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues by:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development:
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC professional development requirements for revalidation are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Safeguarding:
The post-holder to be aware of all current Safeguarding policies which are available on our TeamNet portal.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse with NMC registration
Desirable
- Please see job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse with NMC registration
Desirable
- Please see job description
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).
