Job summary
This is an amazing opportunity to join us as a Practice Nurse at Brownsover Medical Centre, Rugby. You will play a vital role in the delivery of primary health care services, working collaboratively with our team of GPs, nurses, and administrative staff to ensure the highest standards of care for our patients.
Join us on our mission to deliver a service where patients quickly and easily receive the right care from the right person, at the right time, in the right place. These are exciting times - come and join us!
This isnt just our mission for patients, it is designed with our people in mind too, to ease the pressure of the 8am rush and demand vs. capacity!
Tell me more...
- 30 hours per week
- 4/5 days per week
- Exclusive benefits package - purchase extra leave, discounts, car purchase scheme and more!
- Access to NHS pensions*
- Birthday off!
Main duties of the job
The Role
You will work to ensure that quality is at the heart of everything we do within the surgery and within your role, through:
- Conducting patient assessments and developing care plans.
- Providing immunisations, wound care, and health screenings.
- Managing chronic disease clinics, including diabetes and asthma.
- Offering family planning advice and conducting cervical smear tests.
- Assisting with minor surgical procedures.
- Providing patient education on health promotion and disease prevention.
- Ensuring accurate documentation and maintaining patient records.
- Participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company that values their people over process, and we would love to hear from you!
About us
At Spirit Primary Care we continue
to transform and revolutionize the way that we deliver Primary Care services.
With a focus on collaboration across practices, the development of more
effective triage services and the increased use of new technology, we continue
to improve the experience of Primary Care for both staff and patients.
Tracking our performance against
nationally established goals leads us to deliver better, more streamlined
patient care, helps us to reduce the administrative burden and increase the
uptake and ease of access to care.
We have an extensive multi-disciplinary team who
are keen to innovate and utilize their varied skillset and we are seeking
talented individuals like you to become a part of it!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide care and management for patients with long-term conditions (e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension).
Perform health screenings, cervical smears, vaccinations (including childhood, travel, and campaign programmes), wound care, and ECGs.
Support chronic disease management in line with the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and evidence-based guidelines.
Promote health education, lifestyle advice, and preventative care.
Maintain infection control standards and complete audits as required.
Contribute to the development of integrated, multidisciplinary working across the practice.
Supervise and support HCAs, students, and other team members where needed.
Keep accurate and up-to-date patient records in line with policies and NMC standards.
Participate in annual appraisals, training, and ongoing professional development (CPD).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide care and management for patients with long-term conditions (e.g. asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension).
Perform health screenings, cervical smears, vaccinations (including childhood, travel, and campaign programmes), wound care, and ECGs.
Support chronic disease management in line with the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and evidence-based guidelines.
Promote health education, lifestyle advice, and preventative care.
Maintain infection control standards and complete audits as required.
Contribute to the development of integrated, multidisciplinary working across the practice.
Supervise and support HCAs, students, and other team members where needed.
Keep accurate and up-to-date patient records in line with policies and NMC standards.
Participate in annual appraisals, training, and ongoing professional development (CPD).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Conducting patient assessments and developing care plans.
- Providing immunisations, wound care, and health screenings.
- Managing chronic disease clinics, including diabetes and asthma.
- Offering family planning advice and conducting cervical smear tests.
- Assisting with minor surgical procedures.
- Providing patient education on health promotion and disease prevention.
- Ensuring accurate documentation and maintaining patient records.
- Participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.
Specific Skills/Competencies
Desirable
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Aware of accountability of own role
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions and chronic disease
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Experience in Chronic Disease Management or willingness to undertake training.
- Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination,
- Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Communication skills, both written and verbal including communicating difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- IT skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree
- Membership of a professional body NMC (Nursing Midwifery Council)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Conducting patient assessments and developing care plans.
- Providing immunisations, wound care, and health screenings.
- Managing chronic disease clinics, including diabetes and asthma.
- Offering family planning advice and conducting cervical smear tests.
- Assisting with minor surgical procedures.
- Providing patient education on health promotion and disease prevention.
- Ensuring accurate documentation and maintaining patient records.
- Participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.
Specific Skills/Competencies
Desirable
- Knowledge of health promotion strategies
- Aware of accountability of own role
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions and chronic disease
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Experience in Chronic Disease Management or willingness to undertake training.
- Clinical skills cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination,
- Change-management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
- Communication skills, both written and verbal including communicating difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- IT skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree
- Membership of a professional body NMC (Nursing Midwifery Council)
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
Spirit Primary Care Limited
Address
Brownsover Medical Centre
Bow Fell
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV211JF