Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Practice Nurse at Steel City General Practice, you will deliver evidence-based nursing care across all age groups, focusing on long-term conditions, health promotion, and preventative services. You will work autonomously within your scope of practice, utilising clinical decision-making skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. You will collaborate with GPs, other practice nurses, and multi-disciplinary colleagues to meet patient needs and provide leadership and mentorship to Health Care Assistants, HCAs, and Clinical Practitioners. A valid UK driving licence is essential to travel between our three sites and to carry out home visits for vaccine programmes and long-term condition reviews.

Key Responsibilities

Long-Term Conditions

Conduct independent clinics for asthma, COPD, diabetes, coronary, hypertension, anticoagulation, and other long-term conditions.

Maintain and monitor QOF registers via SystmOne, and lead on specific QOF domains to ensure maximal achievement.

Proactively identify patients at risk of long-term conditions and initiate appropriate care pathways in line with NICE and ICB guidelines.

Preventative Healthcare and Screening

Undertake opportunistic screening for blood pressure, BMI, smoking status, alcohol use, and other risk factors.

Deliver health promotion interventions, including smoking cessation advice, weight management, physical activity counselling, alcohol reduction support, and self-care education.

Refer patients to services as needed, including spirometry clinics, social prescribing, and structured weight management programmes.

Provide family planning, cervical cytology, travel health advice, and immunisations for adults and children under Patient Group Directions, PGDs.

Clinical Procedures and Emergencies

Perform phlebotomy and simple wound care including dressings, suture, and clip removal.

Administer vaccines, including travel vaccines, ensuring correct storage, stock rotation, and safe disposal.

Recognise and manage clinical emergencies.

Infection Prevention and Control

Comply with infection control policies and local ICB protocols. Liaise with the Infection Control Link within the practice to minimise healthcare-associated infections.

Apply safe handling and disposal of sharps, biological waste, and specimen collection, and manage needlestick incidents.

Communication and Record-Keeping

Use clear, sensitive communication to obtain informed consent and ensure patient understanding, adapting style to different health literacy levels and cultural backgrounds.

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records in SystmOne, upholding GDPR and confidentiality requirements.

Attend practice and educational meetings, and contribute to clinical audits, guideline development, and team case reviews.

Act as a patient advocate when liaising with secondary care, community teams, and social services.

Leadership and Team Development

Mentor and support HCAs, Nurse Associates, and student nurses. Assess competence, provide feedback, and share best practice.

Promote a culture of shared learning by disseminating new policies, guidelines, and evidence-based initiatives to colleagues.

Lead on local guideline development, audit projects, and practice-based commissioning initiatives where required.

Risk Management and Governance

Identify, assess, and mitigate risks within your clinical area. Report incidents, hazards, and near misses promptly to line managers.

Contribute to the maintenance and review of practice policies, protocols, and Standard Operating Procedures in line with guidance from your line manager.

Information and Technology

Use SystmOne proficiently for patient coding, record-keeping, QOF reporting, and data retrieval.

Ensure strict compliance with data protection, patient confidentiality, and Freedom of Information requirements.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Promote an inclusive, non-discriminatory environment, and recognise and address health inequalities in our practice population.

Adhere to chaperone policies and support patient choice regarding care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Understanding of the importance of confidentiality, GDPR, and professional boundaries
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Ability to travel across sites and carry out home visits where required (valid UK driving licence and access to vehicle)
• Willingness to undertake training and development relevant to the role

Desirable

• Relevant general practice nursing experience or recent nursing experience transferable to primary care
• Confident and competent in managing long-term conditions such as asthma, COPD, hypertension, diabetes, and CHD
• Competent in delivering adult and childhood immunisations, cervical screening, wound care, and health promotion
• Understanding of and ability to work under Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
• Awareness and understanding of QOF and its role in general practice
• Ability to work autonomously and manage own clinical caseload
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to adapt to diverse patient needs
• Proficient IT skills including the use of clinical systems ( SystmOne) and Microsoft Office
• Committed to infection prevention and control, safeguarding, and health and safety policies

Experience

Essential

• Experience working within Primary Care

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

Baslow Road Surgery

Address

148 Baslow Road

Sheffield

S17 4DR

Employer's website

https://baslowandshoreham.gpsurgery.net/ (Opens in a new tab)