Bank Practice Nurse

NHS; Wigton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading primary care team as a Bank Practice Nurse, providing essential nursing services in a supportive setting. This flexible role allows you to deliver high-quality patient care across various services while collaborating with GPs and healthcare staff. Ideal for experienced nurses looking to maintain their practice with an adaptable schedule.

Qualifications

• Current UK professional registration required.
• Experience in chronic disease management.
• Evidence of immunisation and cervical cytology training.

Responsibilities

• Deliver wound care, immunisations, and chronic disease management.
• Support GPs and collaborate with healthcare team.
• Accurate clinical note recording and understanding of PGDs.

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Chronic disease management

Communication

Education

UK professional registration as a nurse

Training in immunisation

Cervical cytology training

Tools

EMIS Clinical System

Job description

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Bank Practice Nurse to join our friendly and supportive primary care team on a flexible, as-needed basis. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled nurse to contribute to high-quality patient care in a general practice setting, while enjoying the flexibility of a bank role.

As a Bank Practice Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering evidence-based nursing care, supporting long-term condition management, health promotion, and routine clinical procedures. You will work collaboratively with GPs, other nurses, healthcare assistants, and wider primary care staff to ensure safe, effective, and person-centred care for our registered population.

This position is ideal for experienced nurses looking to maintain clinical practice with the flexibility to choose shifts that fit around other commitments.

Main duties of the job

The Bank Practice Nurse plays a vital role in delivering general nursing services to the patient population within the practice.

This flexible position is designed to provide cover during periods of staff absence, such as annual leave, and to support the practice during times of increased demand. The Bank Practice Nurse will work collaboratively with the GP team to maintain high standards of patient care and clinical service delivery. In addition, the Bank Practice Nurse will offer support and guidance to healthcare assistants and phlebotomists, contributing to a cohesive and efficient primary care team.

About us

Caldbeck Surgery is a rural dispensing practice with 4300 patients with 5 GP Partners.

Caldbeck Surgery is also a training practice and is currently hosting 3 Doctors in training for General Practice.

Job responsibilities

As a Bank Practice Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, evidence-based nursing care across a range of services including:

• Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
• Simple and Complex dressings
• ECGs
• Venepuncture
• Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly
• Understanding the importance of evidence-based practice
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs
• Chaperone procedure
• Immunisations (routine, childhood, flu and B12)
• Chronic disease management in diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, cardiovascular disease, mental health, dementia, stroke/TIA, learning disabilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
• Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
• Evidence of immunisation training and assessment of competence
• Evidence of cervical cytology training and assessment of competence

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of working autonomously
• Experience of working on the EMIS Clinical System
• Experience of chronic disease management in diabetes, asthma and COPD

Essential – Full UK Driving Licence and Access to a Vehicle

• Driving Licence and access to vehicle.
• Caldbeck Surgery is a rural practice and not on any transport links.

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.