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Maple Access Partnership

Practice Nurse

The closing date is 04 July 2025

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen as Mayfield Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Practice Nurse to work full time alongside our current GP and Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

  • Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
  • General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
  • Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
  • Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
  • Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and other chronic disease management reviews.

About us

We are a practice located in the East of Northampton serving a population of around 9000 patients. The practice has a friendly, supportive team who work closely.

This consists of 4 GP Partners, 2 Salaried GP, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 1 Nurse Prescriber, 1 Practice Nurse, 1 Nurse Associate, 2 Managers and a team of 12 administrators/receptionists .

We use Systmone/ TPP and experience using this system would be an advantage, but full training will be offered. We offer a competitive salary depending on experience along with 25 days holidays plus bank holidays which rises after continued service.

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1859-25-0000

Job locations

Mayfield Surgery

Weston Favell

Northampton

NN3 8DW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake, record and follow guidelines for the tasks for which you have received appropriate training and achieved competence;

Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care, procedure, intervention.

Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies in healthy living.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with long term conditions.

Work with other health professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat patients with long term conditions.

Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patients needs and evidence-based practice

Support adherence for the recall of patients with long term conditions and adherence to prescribed medication.

Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing conditions in line with the National service Frameworks.

Participate in and promote the national screening programmes, including cervical cytology.

Participate in and promote the national immunisation programmes for children and adults with appropriate training.

Administer Adult/Child vaccinations under agreed PGD/PSD directives

Participate and support patients attending for travel vaccination, with appropriate training.

Perform opportunistic and planned NHS health screening checks.

Support patients in general health promotion, healthy lifestyle and promote self-well-being with appropriate referral as indicated.

Participate with QoF, enhanced services and medicines management initiatives to maintain practice high achievements in these areas.

Undertake appropriate activities/responsibilities related to own lead areas.

Support the PCN initiative.

Support and participate in shared learning across practice and wider organisation.

Provide support and guidance to the health care assistants and junior staff as needed.

Support the Nurse Manager in her role on behalf of the Partners/Managers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake, record and follow guidelines for the tasks for which you have received appropriate training and achieved competence;

Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care, procedure, intervention.

Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes that promote health and well-being. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies in healthy living.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with long term conditions.

Work with other health professionals to diagnose, monitor, manage and treat patients with long term conditions.

Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patients needs and evidence-based practice

Support adherence for the recall of patients with long term conditions and adherence to prescribed medication.

Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing conditions in line with the National service Frameworks.

Participate in and promote the national screening programmes, including cervical cytology.

Participate in and promote the national immunisation programmes for children and adults with appropriate training.

Administer Adult/Child vaccinations under agreed PGD/PSD directives

Participate and support patients attending for travel vaccination, with appropriate training.

Perform opportunistic and planned NHS health screening checks.

Support patients in general health promotion, healthy lifestyle and promote self-well-being with appropriate referral as indicated.

Participate with QoF, enhanced services and medicines management initiatives to maintain practice high achievements in these areas.

Undertake appropriate activities/responsibilities related to own lead areas.

Support the PCN initiative.

Support and participate in shared learning across practice and wider organisation.

Provide support and guidance to the health care assistants and junior staff as needed.

Support the Nurse Manager in her role on behalf of the Partners/Managers.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Essential
  • An understanding of the requirements of the Care Quality Commission
  • An understanding of nursing within a primary care setting

Desirable

  • Desirable
  • Knowledge of SystmOne clinical system
  • Previous general practice experience
  • An understanding of the GP contract and QOF
  • Aptitudes

Qualifications

Essential

  • Essential
  • NMC registration
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Current mandatory training

Desirable

  • Desirable
  • RGN with minimum 2 years relevant post-registration education
  • Completion of a Practice Nurse qualification
  • Chronic disease management qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Essential
  • An understanding of the requirements of the Care Quality Commission
  • An understanding of nursing within a primary care setting

Desirable

  • Desirable
  • Knowledge of SystmOne clinical system
  • Previous general practice experience
  • An understanding of the GP contract and QOF
  • Aptitudes

Qualifications

Essential

  • Essential
  • NMC registration
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Current mandatory training

Desirable

  • Desirable
  • RGN with minimum 2 years relevant post-registration education
  • Completion of a Practice Nurse qualification
  • Chronic disease management qualification

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

Maple Access Partnership

Address

Mayfield Surgery

Weston Favell

Northampton

NN3 8DW


Employer's website

https://mapleaccess.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Maple Access Partnership

Address

Mayfield Surgery

Weston Favell

Northampton

NN3 8DW


Employer's website

https://mapleaccess.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Jo Carr

jo.carr3@nhs.net

01604415157

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1859-25-0000

Job locations

Mayfield Surgery

Weston Favell

Northampton

NN3 8DW


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